Posted on 03/08/2023 10:03:37 AM PST by Jacquerie
Confederate monuments and others would be protected from removal, defacement and historical contextualization. Legislation in the House and the Senate would protect monuments of war from not just defacement and removal, but attempts to offer historical context.
The “Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act” (HB 1607) was filed in the House by Rep. Dean Black, a Jacksonville Republican. It is the House companion to SB 1096, filed last month by Sen. Jonathan Martin, a Republican from Fort Myers.
“We must defend and learn from our history,” Black told Florida Politics Tuesday. This includes protecting historic monuments across the state of Florida. I’m proud to introduce this important bill in the Legislature and look forward to finally canceling ‘cancel’ culture!”
The legislation would seemingly stifle controversies about confederate monuments, such as the one in Jacksonville, that have percolated for years.
The bill would encompass historical depictions represented in the form of a “plaque, statue, marker, flag, banner, cenotaph, religious symbol, painting, seal, tombstone, structure name, or display constructed and located with the intent of being permanently displayed or perpetually maintained,” honoring military or public service, “past or present,” with no exceptions contemplated.
Monuments could not be removed, and plaques and signs attempting to put those constructions in historical context would only be permissible if Secretary of State Cord Byrd signs off. Those who remove or damage monuments would pay treble the cost to restore and move them back, with “punitive damages” also possible.
Public entities owning the monuments, legal residents of the state and “historical preservation” groups would have standing for civil action under this bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at floridapolitics.com ...
Just look at the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
Since this is Florida, not Virginia, there is actually a chance it will be enacted into law and enforced.
I expect rioters bussed into Florida in 2024 to make DeSantis react in the middle of a Presidential campaign.
It’s time to start putting Texas Ranger (the LEOs not the ball players) monuments and statues back up. This is Texas. Screw BLM if they can’t handle it. All this erasing American History BS has got to go. If you don’t like our history, move to Iran or Iraq/Ubracq.
When the Soviet Union felt a need to change history, they’d disinter the former “Hero of the Soviet Union” and re-bury him face down...!
Needed “Reconciliation” was the view of the Union when looking the other way as these statues were put up. (Which took a lot of Moxie, seeing that the statues were all Democrats).
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