Posted on 11/19/2020 4:23:16 PM PST by 11th_VA
Lawmakers are hoping to pass the annual defense authorization bill before the end of the year, but a provision that requires the Pentagon to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases could earn the legislation a veto from President Trump, who has expressed strong opposition to the idea, despite bipartisan support for the plan in Congress.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) reportedly warned top lawmakers this week that the provision would have to be removed if they want the bill to pass. However, The New York Times reported Thursday that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has “hinted” that Trump would accept the base renaming provision in exchange for a repeal of certain legal protections currently in place for social media companies.
Specifically, Meadows said the White House is looking for a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects the likes of Facebook and Twitter from liability over writings posted by their users.
Democrats say the idea is unlikely to gain traction. “On its face, there’s issues of jurisdiction, lack of clarity on what the White House actually means when it says repeal Sec. 230, and also it’s unclear if congressional Republicans support this,” a Democratic aide told The Hill...
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no deal.
No deal. It is a non issue after Trump is inaugurated in January.
So you’re thinkin’ no “Fire Base Obxxx” then? May as well go back to the old ‘school system’. PS #1 etc.
Let me guess - the Dems want to rename Fort Bragg. Fort Obama?
They need to separate the section pertaining to base names from the Bill it is in. The actual Bill the Democrat House passed, contains two other orders in that specific section, one of which requires the removal of all Confederate monuments from every National Park Service Civil War Battlefield.
No...the names stay. Enough of this shit.
Don’t tell anyone, but I believe the Veterans Administration erected the Confederate monument at Point Lookout - a Union POW camp for Southern soldiers.
No deal
Just veto
the base names are fine as is.
Protect our history,statues and monuments
Once they start going all out and winning those battles there’s no going back we are finished as a nation!
if that was done- it would be proof of the Orwellian notion of the Union Army flagellating itself at each battle— there being no opponent in re-written history. Beyond idiotic.
Consider the source, folks.
I believe you're right. I visited Point Lookout several years ago. Members of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (black dismounted unit) was stationed there briefly. Frederick Douglass's youngest son Charles R. Douglass was a Sgt. in the unit. I've got pictures I took in an album somewhere around here. I have a friend who lives in Leonardstown, Md., but was then living in Clinton, Md. I used to stay with her when I was doing research at the National Archives. I researched the 54th and 55th Massachusetts regiments back then.
if that was done- it would be proof of the Orwellian notion of the Union Army flagellating itself at each battle— there being no opponent in re-written history. Beyond idiotic.
'The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.’ —George Orwell, 1984
The lie being there was no-— opponent as there are no monuments. A very “healing” concept that opens many,nearly all olde wounds. Yes— Orwellian in the doublespeak.
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