Posted on 08/20/2017 2:01:55 PM PDT by RetiredUSMC
Chattanooga is moving to renounce its position as a trustee of the Confederate Cemetery on East Third Street, according to a news release from Mayor Andy Berke's office.
"Our action today makes it clear that the City of Chattanooga condemns white supremacy in every way, shape and form," Berke said in the release.
"While we honor our dead, we do not honor the principle for which they fought. Our city should be invested in our future, not a discredited past. Confederates fought against America to preserve slavery. That is the truth, and we should no longer subsidize any myths to the contrary."
The release states the city is not on the deed for the land, but Berke also has asked City Attorney Wade Hinton to file paperwork to confirm Chattanooga is the city is no longer listed as one of the cemetery trustees.
Hinton said the city has allowed the Sons of Confederate Veterans to make repairs to the cemetery under the assumption the city owned the property. A review of records showed "this does not appear to be the case," Hinton said.
"There is no reason why we should have any responsibility for maintaining the Confederate Cemetery — a property we do not actually own."
The release said the terms of the cemetery trust have expired. It said the city will ask Hamilton County Chancery Court for a ruling on its status as a trustee and to determine who owns and must maintain the property.
Does Free Republic have an “I find that offensive!” button? I’ll be Democrats Underground does.
“Confederates fought against America to preserve slavery.”
If the Confederates were fighting FOR slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
In 1861, the Army of the Confederacy became the military arm of the Democrat Party. When will it be held accountable? If there is truly no statute of limitations on moral wrongs of the past, why aren’t the Democrats paying for their transgressions?
“While we honor our dead, we do not honor the principle for which they fought....
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No one is/was perfect (except One).
So in that vein, no one has principles that can be honored.
So better dig everyone up, and grind them into compost for pot farms. And include everyone still living.
Who volunteers to be first????
Start with Drive-By Anchors - - -
When will enough be enough?
Rush Limbaugh: US On 'Cusp Of A Second Civil War'
""We haven't seen anything like this. You might even get away with saying that we are on the cusp of a second civil war. Some of you might say that we are already into it, that it has already begun. However you characterize it, though, we are under attack from within. And, it's being bought and paid for by people from outside America, in addition to inside," Limbaugh said."
I can see it now: Feed and house our living while our dead shore up the vote where and when needed.
Welcome to #civillivesmatter.
I was once at Cold Harbor on an overcast day and the fog hung about 6 feet off the ground like smoke. I was standing approximately where Grant would have watched 7,000 of his men die in 20 minutes. The hair on the back of my neck stood up.
Captain Frederick Benteen in the 1879 Court of Inquiry concerning the Little Big Horn matter stated in a different way why men would oppose the blue army which had been given orders to take it all.
“We were at their hearths and homes,” he said, referring to the Sioux . . . “and they were fighting for all the good God gives anyone to fight for.”
Very low, less than 10%. Why do you ask?
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