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Digging Up Confederate Bones Would Only Make America Worse
National Review ^ | 07/11/2015 | David French

Posted on 07/11/2015 7:01:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/11/2015 7:01:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it legal to just dig up American soldier bodies at will.

After all, Confederate war dead have exactly the same legal status as any American soldier killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.


2 posted on 07/11/2015 7:03:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left is really good at dividing people. Divide and conquer is one of their key tactics.


3 posted on 07/11/2015 7:07:48 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: cripplecreek

The anti Southern culture jihad is on. There will be no stopping it. This has been pre planned.


4 posted on 07/11/2015 7:07:58 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind
like the Democrats’ displays in the 1960s

The battle flag was hoisted by Democrats in the South. This is like a Stalinist purge of the party's history.

5 posted on 07/11/2015 7:08:15 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: central_va

Dealing with the left is like dealing with terrorists. Any compromise with them is seen as nothing but a weakness to exploit later.


6 posted on 07/11/2015 7:09:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: cripplecreek

IIRC, the STATES usually control grave disposition. I know this is so in Georgia. I don’t think a city or county can arbitrarily dig up a grave and move it or otherwise dispose of it.

Years ago at a little church cemetery in East Cobb, GA, Cobb County had encroached on the cemetery to the point the road ROW and sidewalks were actually cutting the corner on my Grandparents’ graves (and their parents). I took my mother down there once to put fresh flowers on and clean up and she got hopping made. Long story short, she had the State agency responsible MAKE Cobb County realign the road (moving it) to cure the encroachment. It cost them a bundle and they had to purchase ROW on the other side of the road to move the road. They also made the County install a wrought iron Fence along the entire ROW it shared.


7 posted on 07/11/2015 7:14:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

It is becoming clear that we are headed into a cultural revolution much like Chine. That didn’t work out very well, and ours won’t either.


8 posted on 07/11/2015 7:15:37 AM PDT by healy61
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To: cripplecreek

Maybe we should dig up the bones of the British Regulars and Marines buried here, and send them back to England because of what they did to the Colonists here several centuries ago.
This makes just as much sense, doesn’t it?


9 posted on 07/11/2015 7:18:48 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: central_va
This has been preplanned.

I keep shouting this sort thing ... into a vacuum. Conservatives MUST convene to make plans to combat this steady erosion of our Principles. We MUST become activists, or just say goodby to this cherished Nation. Leaving comments on blog sites isn't good enough. Time is running out.

10 posted on 07/11/2015 7:19:48 AM PDT by GingisK
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...I keep shouting this sort thing ... into a vacuum. Conservatives MUST convene to make plans to combat this steady erosion of our Principles....

Cruz and Trump are not keeping quiet. Neither should we.
Enough of liberalisms’ divide and conquer.


11 posted on 07/11/2015 7:24:10 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left is winning because dissenters are SILENCED.


12 posted on 07/11/2015 7:26:26 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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Conservatives MUST convene to make plans to combat this steady erosion of our Principles.

We have no voice nor venue for such. Our elected reps say what they think we want to hear but when they get to DC they're all about keeping their career options open. And they do this with impugnity. Meanwhile, America is being destroyed by the gods of liberalism.

13 posted on 07/11/2015 7:27:05 AM PDT by LouAvul (Venal and evil people are destroying the world you live in.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The blacks that deny our Southern heritage won't blink an eye to put whites into concentration camps. This is just the start. Anything to do with the Confederacy will be erased, after that any slaveholder that helped mold the US will be vilified. Unless there is a pushback soon, the whites of the US are done. What has happened in Rhodesia and South Africa will be a harbinger of the US future. This isn't racist, its just observing what is happening now.
14 posted on 07/11/2015 7:29:18 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: SeekAndFind

A poster here on Free Republic (don’t remember who or which article) said that the agreement between the Forrest family and the city of Memphis was that the land the park sits on was willed to the city as long as Forrest’s bones remained where they are. If they are removed, the land reverts to the family members. Does anyone know about this?


15 posted on 07/11/2015 7:30:42 AM PDT by Humal
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They reburied Abe Lincoln’s remains in a mass of concrete... so nobody could do this.


16 posted on 07/11/2015 7:31:55 AM PDT by Rodamala
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Let’s give it all back to the Indians. If anyone deserves reparations..it’s the Indians.


17 posted on 07/11/2015 7:32:21 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: cripplecreek

You are of course 100% correct.
Clearly we have no representation at any level of government.
The madness has infected the culture deep and wide, and people like us will become men without a country.


18 posted on 07/11/2015 7:37:31 AM PDT by Clump (Bestowing dignity on sodomy is like bestowing fragrance on a turd.)
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I have also heard that. But alas, I don't know if it is true or not.
But then again, the black city of Memphis will argue that any agreement with white Confederate sympathizers should not be recognized. And I can guaran-damn-tee they will find some judge to agree with them. All the way to the Supreme Court.
19 posted on 07/11/2015 7:38:05 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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“They reburied Abe Lincoln’s remains in a mass of concrete... so nobody could do this.”

Buffalo Bill Cody’s too.


20 posted on 07/11/2015 7:39:07 AM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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