Posted on 01/26/2016 2:33:34 PM PST by Rebeleye
A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday denied a request for an injunction to stop the city from removing four monuments related to the Confederacy.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled that the New Orleans City Council's 6-1 vote in December to take down monuments to Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, P.G.T Beauregard and a white militia group that led a rebellion against the state's integrated, Reconstruction-era government did not break the law or violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at theneworleansadvocate.com ...
True, just ask Obama’s BFF, Bill “Just a Guy in the Neighbourhood” Ayers.
Yep!
-PJ
Zero, which is why this federal judge was right to stay out of this dispute and leave it to the elected local officials.
-PJ
shaking head
To show black people to "know their place"?
No.
To show that 50 years after a Civil War, that we are all AMERICANS after all.
End of story.
Budapest has a Memento Park for old Soviet Statues.
Maybe that’s what they want us to do with old Confederate monuments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Park#The_Endless_Parade_of_Liberation_Monuments
Very popular with tourists.
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Wait until the day comes when someone gets tired of the hoopla over MLK.
We’ll see how happy the sanitization crew is then.
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