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Alabama Makes It Illegal to Remove Confederate Monuments
Breitbart ^ | 05/27/2017 | Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 05/27/2017 3:22:11 PM PDT by Trump20162020

The new law attempts to preserve history by making it illegal to remove monuments that have been in place for more than 40 years.

The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, signed into law Wednesday by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R), protects historical Confederate monuments which have come under fire in recent weeks by Democratic politicians.

The new legislation prohibits:

The relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument located on public property which has been in place for 40 or more years.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; confederacy; confederate; memorial; monument; monuments
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1 posted on 05/27/2017 3:22:11 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

AFTER THE CONFEDERATES, WHO’S NEXT IN AN AMERICA GONE MAD? YOU AND YOUR FOLKS? Some history!!
http://www.ini-world-report.org/2017/05/27/after-the-confederates-whos-next/


2 posted on 05/27/2017 3:23:40 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (America dodged a bullet. But remember that millions of morons are STILL OUT THERE!)
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To: Trump20162020

Good for Alabama.

Question: Could some judge shoot this down?

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3 posted on 05/27/2017 3:28:33 PM PDT by Mears ("It takes a lot of clout to be a victim."---Joe Sobran)
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To: Dick Bachert

Good Link. Good Article.


4 posted on 05/27/2017 3:31:23 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Trump20162020

HOORAY Alabama!


5 posted on 05/27/2017 3:32:23 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Trump20162020

Good for Alabama.
Corey Stewart, candidate for Gov. of Virginia has taken a similar stance, unlike the VAGOP choice, Ed Gillespie, Cheap Labor Express Republican, who is a New Jersey carpetbagger.


6 posted on 05/27/2017 3:32:50 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump20162020
This country's Marxists will surely challenge this law in the Federal courts.
7 posted on 05/27/2017 3:35:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Trump20162020

Famed liberal philosopher and essayist, George Santayana, who was born during
the Civil war is famous for saying,
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Liberals are even forgetting their own icons.


8 posted on 05/27/2017 3:36:55 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: Trump20162020

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3555746/posts


9 posted on 05/27/2017 3:37:08 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: Trump20162020

Good.

Libs have a nice racket going by getting history removed, and they are even getting Republican politicians to do it.

Maybe now more states will grow a backbone and stop the cleansing insanity.


10 posted on 05/27/2017 3:39:59 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Sasparilla

Look at the new calls for re-segregation. Small venues at first -- college dorms, college classrooms, etc.

Then, in another 100 years or so, 'they' will by crying for re-desegration.

Libs will never be satisfied.
11 posted on 05/27/2017 3:44:24 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Mears

Very questionable constitutionally. Can a state government mandate to cities what monuments they have to maintain on city property?

Will the state of South Carolina try to seize Fort Sumter again?


12 posted on 05/27/2017 3:44:54 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: TomGuy
Then, in another 100 years or so, 'they' will by crying for re-desegration.

They're counting on us to be gone by then.

13 posted on 05/27/2017 3:46:24 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Trump20162020

That law is going to be challenged in court when a city decides to remove a city owned monument.

The city will claim the right to control their property, the state will claim they have control of all municipally owned monuments and structures.


14 posted on 05/27/2017 3:46:43 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: iowamark

State law supersedes them, so yes.

Just like state legislature can pass bills prohibiting city councils from making infringing gun control laws.


15 posted on 05/27/2017 3:47:14 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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Where are all the Preservation People....They stick their nose in everything else.

Thank you Alabama.

Now a demand by the people to put the monuments back. They are historically significant.

16 posted on 05/27/2017 3:47:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“This country’s Marxists will surely challenge this law in the Federal courts.”

Do you believe that local governments and private organizations should have the right to manage their own property as they see fit?


17 posted on 05/27/2017 3:49:09 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Dick Bachert

http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/after-the-confederates-whos-next/


18 posted on 05/27/2017 3:50:48 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: iowamark

Fort Sumter was U.S. federal property.


19 posted on 05/27/2017 3:53:33 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: Sacajaweau

You want a state dictating to local governments what monuments they must have in their property?


20 posted on 05/27/2017 3:56:58 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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