Posted on 12/14/2023 8:48:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
A group of Republican lawmakers are attempting to stop the Pentagon from taking out a Confederate monument belonging to Arlington National Cemetery.
Led by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), the group of lawmakers penned a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that demands he leaves the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial untouched until at least the conclusion of the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process.
The monument was set to be taken out by the Pentagon’s Naming Commission, a group formed to rename and remove military installations named after the Confederacy. This came in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, Fox News reports
https://x.com/blueandgray1864/status/1735023047940210936
"Despite bipartisan support for this monument, the Naming Commission, established by the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, clearly overstepped its legislative authority when it recommended that the Department of the Army remove the Reconciliation Monument from Arlington National Cemetery," the lawmakers wrote.
The Arlington National Cemetery website confirms this removal, with a section stating that "As required by Congress and implemented by the Secretary of Defense, Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) is required to remove the Confederate Memorial located in Section 16 of ANC."
It additionally notes that a "process to prepare for the memorial's careful removal and relocation has been initiated."
Clyde said that the memorial symbolizes American unity after the Civil War rather than bringing honor to the Confederacy, and that its removal would serve to desecrate the graves of Confederate soldiers buried there.
Calls to remove monuments and statues of American historical figures are nothing new; New York City recently weighed a plot to remove George Washington statues as part of a new ‘reparations’ plan.
"[T]he Reconciliation Monument does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy; the memorial commemorates reconciliation and national unity," the lawmakers' letter continued.
"Furthermore, the Naming Commission’s authority explicitly prohibits the desecration of grave sites. Considering the hundreds of gravestones encircling the monument, it would be impossible for these graves to remain untouched if the Department of the Army proceeds with its proposed removal of the monument – both being a clear violation of Congress’ enacted statute and legislative intent."
Clyde, who is a Navy combat veteran, penned the letter along with 43 other House Republicans, including Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL).
The plan is for the statue to be moved to a site owned by the Virginia Military Institute, reports Cardinal News.
"The Department of Defense must respect Congress’ clear legislative intentions regarding the Naming Commission’s legislative authority, and to move forward with removal of the Reconciliation Monument would be a clear affront to the separation of powers principles outlined by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution," the lawmakers wrote.
The Pentagon currently faces a lawsuit over the statue's planned removal from Defend Arlington, a group that represents Confederate veterans, among others.
The Slave Power was using the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to abuse the State Rights of the northern States. Then they had a fit when the same thing happened to them, and committed treason against the US.
I never think of Thom Tillis at all unless he is the news.
Whenever his name does come up it is in regards to some controversial issue - and then he is on the wrong side.
I see there are still a few naive RINO idiots still here.
Making room for Cankles?
American Confederates have been cancelled. Erased from history.
Robert E. Lees property is located in the center of the Arlington National Cemetery , GOP Lawmakers Try To Stop Itit was bought out to get ride of him.
Story in the old farmers almanac page 164.
What they going to do move Arlington National Cemetery.
Our local County Seat has removed the Confederate statue that has been there for decades. In Oklahoma the Cherokees have removed the memorial to Stand Watie, the last Cherokee General to lay down arms.
The Stand Watie Memorial Bridge is now the Honey Creek Bridge and the Stand Watie Memorial Highway is now just Highway 59. So far Stand Watie is still buried in the cemetery near Grove OK. They have not dug him up yet.
The REPUBLICAN PARTY was founded on two platforms.
The abolition of mormon polygamy
and
The abolition of slavery.
An 1882 Supreme Court decision declared the federal government had confiscated Arlington House from the Lees without due compensation, and the property was returned. George Washington Custis Lee sold the house and 1,100 acre estate back to the government for $150,000.
For the love of mike if the Pentagon has nothing better to do then this, I have a list of chores.
You are referring to the "fugitive slave act." I'm not sure if we've covered this before, but just to make sure, I am now informing you that Article IV, Section 2 of the US constitution *REQUIRES* states to return fugitive slaves.
Article IV, Section 2.
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
The Northern states agreed to this condition when they ratified the US Constitution.
What that means is that the Northern states *GAVE UP* any right to refuse to return fugitive slaves.
You cannot say they were "abused" when they agreed to do this as a condition of being part of the United States.
So are we clear on this point? Or were you referring to something else when you said the government was abusing the Northern states?
If you meant something else, I am all ears and would like to understand what you mean.
And the Southern States agree to give up thier complete severity when they entered the Union
The same Constitution the Confederacy tried to rip up and rebellion against.
Yes, without the Southern states, the entire Union would have just fallen apart and ceased to exist.
Talk about hysterical exaggeration!
No, the Union wouldn't have "perished" if it didn't have the Southern states to tax at 72% of the total revenue for the Federal government.
The Northern citizens would just have to start paying for their own government and all the big tax and spend government projects they wanted in the 1860s.
Lincoln was a Drama Queen.
Oh, and in his first inaugural address, Lincoln was calling for the passage of an amendment that would keep the slaves in bondage forever, so he's not even very honest when he talks about how concerned he is for their suffering.
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What does "complete severity" mean? I don't understand what you are saying here.
My family visited there several years ago, and it was a monument to healing of a nation. If the folks that lost brothers and husbands in that war could forgive and honor their former enemy, who are we to take that away?
You are going to have to be clearer here. The Confederate constitution was pretty much just the regular old US Constitution with a few changes, but easily recognizeable as being patterned after the same.
So it isn't the constitution they hated, and you can't "rebel" against it by leaving it. That's like saying someone is "rebelling" against marriage when they get a divorce. No, they just didn't want to be with that partner anymore. They had nothing against marriage, they just wanted to be separated from a specific individuals.
And with the Northern states sucking up 60% of everything the South did to put in their own pockets, it's no surprise that the Southern states wanted out of the arrangement".
And while we're at it, Virginia specifically said in their US Constitution ratification statement that they reserved the right to leave the Union if the Federal government became injurious to the rights of their citizens.
Which it did.
Their is no right to leave, the Union was declared perpetual by the Articles of Confederation, and Section 10 of the Constitution states that no State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance or Confederation
Ok, I didn’t want to go here, but you asked for it. The Pre- Civil War South was anti- free market, and a form of socalism. It was even defend as such.
who are we to take that away?
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Who are we? Well, we’re either the Democrats, i.e., Socialists, Communists, and Fascists, or we’re the rest of the population, i.e., the bootlickers who are at the mercy of the Democrats!
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