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Within the next several days, barring intervention from Congress, the Biden Regime, in violation of the law, will remove the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
ThreadReaderApp.com ^ | December 15, 2023 | Jeremy Carl @jeremycarl4

Posted on 12/16/2023 9:27:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

1/ Within the next several days, barring intervention from Congress, the Biden Regime, in violation of the law, will remove the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, commissioned to celebrate the reconciliation of North and South.

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2/ The memorial is considered the masterwork of the renowned Jewish-American sculptor Sir Moses Ezekiel (a former Confederate soldier who was described by his biographer as “adamantly opposed to slavery") who is buried at its base.

3/ Ezekiel, knighted by the King of Italy, was so dedicated to North-South reconciliation that he would later host commanding Union General Ulysses S. Grant at his studio.

4/ Yet in the wake of the George Floyd moral panic, this memorial was scheduled for removal, though its removal is being done in violation of several federal laws and the clear text of the legislation, which excludes graves.

5/ As former Democrat Senator and Navy Secretary Jim Webb said:

“What was it that Union Army veteran McKinley understood about the Confederate soldiers who opposed him on the battlefield that eludes today’s monument smashers and ad hominem destroyers of historical reputations?”

6/ In fact, at the time it was constructed, some major Confederate groups opposed it because they opposed the reconciliation it symbolized.

7/ Webb, a Vietnam Veteran, has spoken about taking groups of North and South Vietnamese to the monument to show how the U.S. reconciled successfully after a bitter civil war

8/ 44 House Republicans have signed a letter opposing the removal but every Republican should be on record as opposing this lawless action

9/ But of course, this is never *really* about the Confederacy or “Confederate Statues”. The same spirit animated the recent removal of the statue of Thomas Jefferson from the New York City Council, where it had stood for 187 years.



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To: Vermont Lt
I am all for the confederate soldiers being buried there.

Give them time! The Leftists will soon be coming with their spades, to dig up and desecrate those graves.

Suggesting that the union fought a war that is “a lost cause” is an insult to the thousands of soldiers buried there.

Well, the South lost, didn't it. So wasn't it a "lost" cause?

Regards,

21 posted on 12/16/2023 9:59:07 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

De-reconciliation.


22 posted on 12/16/2023 10:03:09 AM PST by arthurus ( covfefe >)
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To: JBW1949

The REAL History ? NO !!!

they indoctrinate young people with The US started WWII when we dropped the Atomic Weapons on Japan.


23 posted on 12/16/2023 10:05:42 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Pete Dovgan

‘Most of the soldiers in the south never even owned slaves.’

completely irrelevant; they were fodder for their politicians, who certainly made no secret of their intentions backing secession...to the extent that they benefitted the confederate cause they were aiding the extension and continuance of slavery...

‘It will no enlighten those ignorant to the causes behind the war in the first place, slavery being only one of them.’

there was one cause of the actual war, without which there would not have been any war; secession...if you need any enlightenment of the reasons backing secession, read the declarations of cause for the states of SC, GA, TX, and MS...


24 posted on 12/16/2023 10:08:07 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

“there was one cause of the actual war, without which there would not have been any war; secession...if you need any enlightenment of the reasons backing secession, read the declarations of cause for the states of SC, GA, TX, and MS...”

If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?


25 posted on 12/16/2023 10:11:24 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A national tragedy.


26 posted on 12/16/2023 10:18:50 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Certainly, there are enough Republican votes in the GOP House to stop the removal of the monument.


27 posted on 12/16/2023 10:21:13 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Since they will be breaking the law, What will “intervention from Congress” accomplish?


28 posted on 12/16/2023 10:32:59 AM PST by motor_racer ("We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends" - Barak Hussein Obama)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

The monument is a testament to reconciliation and moving forward. Opinions like yours’ are part of the reasons countries have Civil Wars.


29 posted on 12/16/2023 10:34:19 AM PST by ohioman (ncestorts.)
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To: All

And Dems call Trump a”Hitler and “dictator” wannabe. Look who’s usurping the law for his personal beliefs.


30 posted on 12/16/2023 10:39:56 AM PST by BipolarBob (Yes officer, I saw the speed limit sign. I just didn't see you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Removal of Washington, Jefferson (at DC and Rushmore), Stone Mountain monuments etc. can’t be far behind.../sarc...well maybe not.


31 posted on 12/16/2023 10:40:07 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: PerConPat

We used to joke that the global warmists wanted to tax us for exhaling CO2, and now it’s not a joke.


32 posted on 12/16/2023 10:42:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Yet in the wake of the George Floyd moral panic, this memorial was scheduled for removal, though its removal is being done in violation of several federal laws and the clear text of the legislation, which excludes graves.”

Who scheduled the removal of the monument?

When did these unnamed people order the removal of the monument?


33 posted on 12/16/2023 10:49:22 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Law? What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?"

To quote one of the early Vanderbilts.

34 posted on 12/16/2023 10:51:49 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When do they take down the Vietnam “Wall”?


35 posted on 12/16/2023 10:53:18 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Greenidgypsy
The Biden Regime has become our Taliban.

Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.

"1984," Book 1, Ch. 8.

Regards,

36 posted on 12/16/2023 10:57:35 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: jeffersondem

Some states mentioned slavery in their declarations of secession, others did not. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders and fought out of loyalty to their states. Ending slavery in the areas under Confederate control (but not the loyal slave states) became the Union aim only as of January 1, 1863, almost 18 months after the first battle of Manassas/Bull Run. Lincoln’s call for troops at the beginning of the war was to “suppress rebellion” not to end slavery.


37 posted on 12/16/2023 10:58:44 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Off topic - Meanwhile in modern times scumbag murderers like Dead Ted Kennedy are buried there with countless others. Haven’t heard if Xiden is going there, it’s just wrong to pee on a grave in Arlington.


38 posted on 12/16/2023 11:04:24 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats are opposed to reconciliation. Blood feud mentality defines them, and not just on this issue.


39 posted on 12/16/2023 11:05:51 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Getting more destruction accomplished while Joe is still around. They know their days are numbered.


40 posted on 12/16/2023 11:07:34 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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