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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: E. Pluribus Unum

“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.” Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA


61 posted on 12/16/2023 1:51:30 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nimrata Randhawa should be thrilled. This is right up her alley.


62 posted on 12/16/2023 1:55:25 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: higgmeister

And Sherman ended the matter, and treason was squashed.


63 posted on 12/16/2023 1:56:55 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: All

Stop whining about a war that was fought against the US, and be concerned with the civil wargoing on aga>nat the US now.


64 posted on 12/16/2023 1:59:27 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: jeffersondem

Why do you even stay in the US? You could form a Confedrate Colony on an Island somewhere.


65 posted on 12/16/2023 2:01:13 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: FLT-bird

I don’t participate in “it was about slavery - no, it wasn’t” threads, but I want to comment on this event.

The decision to end reconstruction, welcome home the “wayward sisters” with their honor and their traditions intact, even within the US military, was one of the smartest and most generous acts by a victor to a vanquished foe in history - and it allowed 99 years of American growth, prosperity, and victory in wars.

The decision to revoke all that coincides with severe American decline, defeats in war, chaos at home, and surging crimes against the white majority.

This is just the final act in this drama, and I pray our soldiers, sailors, and marines may be spared battle under the DEI command structure, where their defeat is a near-certainty.


66 posted on 12/16/2023 2:01:44 PM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: RFEngineer

I’m not for getting rid of the monument, but those soldiers were fighting to rip apart The United States.


67 posted on 12/16/2023 2:03:07 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m OK with rescinding he “reconciliation.”

It was a yankee ruse.


68 posted on 12/16/2023 2:03:39 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: FLT-bird

People might start to do their own research to figure out what it was actually about.

They won’t they know they will come across how many black slave owners existed and some owned many for years.

Selectivity is their motto when it comes to the guilty.

But you did make a good point


69 posted on 12/16/2023 2:04:59 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Jim Noble

Yes, Appomattox was amazing. Then Lee worked to work twoard reconciliation. It was his greatest work.


70 posted on 12/16/2023 2:05:02 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Round Earther

Sounds to be a unilateral unlawful decision by the white house. I suppose congress will have to call out their troops and law enforcement people to put a halt to it except they don’t have any. All they can do is try to cut funding. Big whoop.


71 posted on 12/16/2023 2:07:47 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: RFEngineer

Where did I suggest they were not American?

You are reading way more into stuff than I wrote.

Were they Americans? Absolutely. The law tells me they should be considered American Soldiers. The law can say whatever it wants. The truth will march on.


72 posted on 12/16/2023 2:10:59 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"in violation of law"

Law? What law? There is no law. They do whatever they want.

73 posted on 12/16/2023 2:29:41 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: cowboyusa

They were fighting for self government...for the principle that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.

The states never agreed to surrender their sovereignty and bind themselves forever when they ratified the constitution. Indeed 3 states including Virginia expressly reserved the right to unilateral secession at the time of ratification.


74 posted on 12/16/2023 2:33:31 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

They were fighting to rip the United States apart, plain and simple. Many Southeners would not go along with that and like Trump’s hero Amdrew Jackson would have, they supported the Union. The South was not all Confedrates during the War.


75 posted on 12/16/2023 2:41:04 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: jeffersondem

No, closing the border, enforcing the imigration laws, revising FISA, impeachment of Mayorkas there are a lot of issues more important than statues.


76 posted on 12/16/2023 2:43:55 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: FLT-bird
...the principle that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.

Does "the governed" also refer to the enslaved?

77 posted on 12/16/2023 2:49:17 PM 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: Sequoyah101

Congress can meet tomorrow and vote to halt the destruction of the Confederate Monument at ANC.


78 posted on 12/16/2023 2:56:50 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70
Mary Lee, who owned the property via her daddy, George Washington Parke Custis, was sure pissed that the Feds usurped her land over some BS tax law. This and the pushing the 14th amendment shows the stupidity of power relishing the spoils without long-term thinking.
79 posted on 12/16/2023 3:04:35 PM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Arlington cemetery is a testament to the power that Federal government has over the individual. Exactly the opposite of why this country was founded in the first place. The aftermath of the Civil War in relation to the reconstruction tyranny is up there with the Treaty of Versailles in terms of creating a centralized monster.


80 posted on 12/16/2023 3:13:01 PM PST by rollo tomasi
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