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Confederate monument removed from Alabama courthouse [Huntsville]
Associated Press ^ | October 23, 2020

Posted on 10/23/2020 9:38:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A 115-year-old Confederate monument that was the subject of protests in Alabama this year was removed from outside a county courthouse early Friday.

News outlets reported that a small group of onlookers cheered at the Madison County Courthouse in Huntsville as crews took away the stone memorial, which was topped by the likeness of a soldier, in pieces. Music blasted during part of the work.

“I’m speechless, literally speechless. It’s an amazing time for our culture and for people of all colors. I’m excited that I’m able to watch this event happen during this time,” said Joretha Wright. […]

Madison County Commissioner JesHenry Malone, in a statement, said the county finally took action after a state commission created in 2017 to protect historic monuments failed to respond in a timely way to the commission’s request to remove the memorial. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: alabama; antifa; bidensfault; blacksupremacy; confederatestatues; courthouse; democrats; huntsville; jeshenrymalone; madisoncounty; nikkisfault; obamasfault; waronstatues
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So the Madison County Commission instead took steps to break this law instead of doing something about the “protesters”. Never mind the fact that this Malone (a Democrat) is a former police captain . . .


1 posted on 10/23/2020 9:38:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Shameful.


2 posted on 10/23/2020 9:44:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Olog-hai

Thank You, Nikki Haley.


3 posted on 10/23/2020 9:46:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

American Taliban

Stalinist revisionist history


4 posted on 10/23/2020 9:46:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Olog-hai

Sickening


5 posted on 10/23/2020 9:48:45 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

What does Nimrata Randhawa have to do with Alabama? She’s from South Carolina.


6 posted on 10/23/2020 9:48:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Some history on this statue....it wasn’t erected in the 20-year period after the war. This is true for probably 90 percent of the memorials and statues that exist today.

It was 1905, during a revival period over the entire state that the Democratic Party took advantage of local feelings (most of the participants were approaching mid-60s to mid-70s). Around the whole state, there’s probably over forty of these statues that are erected from 1900 to 1912.

Cost of the statue? Covered by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

So to the more curious piece of history. Around the mid-1960s...the statue was taken down as the new courthouse was being built. This was safely taken down, but put into a unsafe location at the site, and accidentally crushed/damaged by the construction company.

The DAR folks sued the company and forced them to pay for a new statue (so this is not the original one from 1905).


7 posted on 10/23/2020 9:48:46 AM PDT by pepsionice
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So, did they do this legally?

I hate removing everything, but much better it’s legal rather than just reckless vandalism.


8 posted on 10/23/2020 9:49:55 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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To: Olog-hai

The county will have to pay a fine to the state.


9 posted on 10/23/2020 9:50:13 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: pepsionice

Interesting!


10 posted on 10/23/2020 9:51:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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To: Olog-hai

The Cultural Revolution continues to destroy the Four Olds.


11 posted on 10/23/2020 9:52:22 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Does not look like it was done legally. Not that it matters to Democrats such as JesHenry Malone.


12 posted on 10/23/2020 9:55:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

She got this ball rolling.
I knew when she did it, it wouldn’t stop.
And it won’t stop with just Confederate, either.


13 posted on 10/23/2020 9:56:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

I like IGNORANCE - I’m so proud to be part of this moment!

ISIS Idiot.


14 posted on 10/23/2020 9:57:04 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Olog-hai

Idiots.


15 posted on 10/23/2020 10:07:18 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Cancel culture rears its ugly head once again.


16 posted on 10/23/2020 10:20:20 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Lurkinanloomin

They removed a statue of songwriter Stephen Foster from Pittsburgh, which ticked me off, since he wrote about blacks, and there was one included on the statue. They are insane. Now, they are going after Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Feinstein (!). They will not stop. When or if they get complete power, it will be living people they “remove”.


17 posted on 10/23/2020 10:21:20 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Olog-hai

Nikki started this $h!t.


18 posted on 10/23/2020 10:21:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Olog-hai

Sickening


19 posted on 10/23/2020 10:22:47 AM PDT by John Locke Forever (monument)
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To: Olog-hai

“Literally speechless” she said


20 posted on 10/23/2020 10:26:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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