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.
That is an interesting comment.
May we see your data.
And how long did that perpetual union last?
Wasn't it something like 8 years and then, one by one, states left that “perpetual” union without so much as a by-your-leave?
Still more Civil War stuff.
“Pentagon To Remove Memorial To Confederate Dead From Arlington National Cemetery”
how long before they dig up all the confederate bodies and burn them?
https://time.com/4280458/republican-party-know-nothings/
https://time.com/4403385/first-republican-party-platform/
How long before they dig up all the confederate bodies and burn them?
Skeletonization - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletonization#Preservation
After skeletonization, if scavenging animals do not destroy or remove the bones, acids in many fertile soils take about 20 years to completely dissolve the skeleton of mid- to large-size mammals, such as humans, leaving no trace of the organism. In neutral-pH soil or sand, the skeleton can persist for hundreds of years before it finally disintegrates. Alternately, especially in very fine, dry, salty, anoxic, or mildly alkaline soils, bones may undergo fossilization, converting into minerals that may persist indefinitely
What a disgrace.
We are now a country that now tries to destroy its history. We are no better than the Muzzies who blow up their historical religious sites.
No, they formed a new Federal Government.
I’m surprised they haven’t had this removed in Jackson, MI. It specifically ties the founding of the Republican Party with anti-slavery.
“112-year-old plaque on ‘Republican rock’ restored in Jackson”
The Time article provided says as much: “To combat this, Republicans claimed, northerners must recognize the so-called Slave Power's evil intent and unite in opposition to slavery's territorial expansion.”
Others - not you - have made claims that “Lincoln fought to free the slaves” and “Republicans fought to free the slaves”.
There are historical documents that can be interpreted to support theories that Lincoln actually did take up arms to violently overthrow the pro-slavery United States Constitution.”
“No, they formed a new Federal Government.”
What do you mean “No.”
Yes; the states left the union formed under the Articles of Confederation and formed a new union that was not styled as being perpetual.
Two different things. Excuse me, you ought to know that.
The Union was created on July.4th, 1776, by the agreement of all States present.
“I’m surprised they haven’t had this removed in Jackson, MI.”
Nikki will oppose its removal during the primaries and then move to the center in the general election and call for it to be removed and placed in a museum.
Then that could not have been the union referenced in the Articles of Confederation, or the Constitution. Those came later.
The only July 4, 1776 document that I'm familiar with references the “united States of America” and concludes “that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, and contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do . . .”
We celebrated Erica’s Birthday that day, you want to use the right of Revelution and anarchy as an 3cxcuse to rip apart the Union the fine, nothing in the Foundsing Documenylrs support that.
“We celebrated Erica’s Birthday that day, you want to use the right of Revelution and anarchy as an 3cxcuse to rip apart the Union the fine, nothing in the Foundsing Documenylrs support that.”
Nothing in the Declaration of Independence to support independence?
Consider: “. . . Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
You are certainly correct.
Acts such as The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 gave effect to Article 4, Section 2.
Slavery was as odious institution, practiced primarily by the South but also in several states in the North. Both the South and North benefited economically, as you have ably pointed out previously.
It’s always tough to look at issues in the past through the lens of the present, but I’d like to think I would have the courage to actively support the Underground Railroad when it became a method to spirit slaves to safer locations including Canada.
They went to war against that Document. The Decleration is a creation of THE UNITED STATES.
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