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Judge temporarily bars removal of Confederate monument from Arlington National Cemetery

A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery after a push from a citizens group and some GOP lawmakers.

The temporary restraining order, issued by U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. in Alexandra, Va., comes just one day after a group called Defend Arlington, which is affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a suit against the Department of Defense seeking a restraining order against the memorial’s removal.

It is set to expire at 5 p.m. Wednesday following an expected hearing Wednesday morning.

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Fucking racists bawling like babies because their valorization of traitors is going to be removed.
I don't know a single other country that has monuments to the losing side of a civil war.
- They still view the South as righteous. In Texas growing up I had history teachers refer to it as the war of northern aggression
  
  I heard it referred to as "the war between the states," and that was at a deeply conservative religious private school.
  Deliberately miseducating children is reprehensible behavior.
  
  Who can forget when the garrison at Fort Sumpter aggressively followed their orders by not leaving when ordered to by a group of people with no authority. Those yank soldiers were standing there, MENACINGLY!
  Don’t ask me who shot first
- I'll bet they all consider themselves "patriots" too... Maybe they are, just not for the country they live in.
  
  For a country that had a shorter existence than Ghostbuster's cereal.
- Yeah, I could even understand defending a statue of Lee. I disagree with it, but I understand it.
  "A statue of a slave following his owner into battle" is all we needed to hear for this one. The rest is bad, but that's indefensible.
- Drop that shit in the Marianna Trench.
  I wouldn't want the creatures in the Marianna Trench to think we're endorsing that kind of thing. Although, we arguably deserve an eldritch horror from the deep surfacing to judge us for our evil deeds.
  
  Yeah. We need to drop it into mount doom.
  Edit: apparently the Iceland volcano just started erupting. This is clearly a sign to drop it in that volcano.
Losers crying that someone wants to take away their participation trophy.
Why the fuck is a Confederate memorial in Arlington in the first place?
- There's an article, but the tldr is... In 1906, 51 years after the losers lost, the daughters of the confederacy wanted to remind Black people where their place was.
- Because of people who didn't like that they lost
Just vandalize it beyond repair. Problem solved.
- If it is bronze, cheap spaghetti sauce will ruin it and there isn't any known way to reverse the damage.
Why are some GOP lawmakers supporting a monument built for traitors and racists? If it is about heritage, then why are you proud of a traitorous heritage? If it's simply not to wipe away history then why can't they just follow their plan of putting it in a museum?
Hopefully that museum shows it in a context that does not glorify a bunch of insurrectionist slaver garbage.
The actual descendants of the original sculptor even want it gone. Washington Post, Descendants of Rebel sculptor: Remove Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery, 2017
Now a group claiming ancestry from a Confederate veteran named Moses Jacob Ezekiel, who was a renowned sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is asking that one of his most prominent works be taken down.
Twenty-two people in the Ezekiel family — ages 20 to 90 — from across the country signed the letter calling for the Confederate Memorial’s removal from Arlington.
“All of us agree that monuments to the Confederacy are racist justifications of slavery, of owning people,” she said Friday in a telephone interview. “We wanted to say that although Ezekiel is a relative of ours, we still believe it’s a relic of a racist past.”
Let's not forget Trump vetoed the Bill that was overridden by Congress that allowed this to happen.
"quickly". The report listing that it was being removed came out 15 months ago.
- I don't think these people read good.
What is this bullshit?
@MicroWave
Insurrectionist memorials do not belong in National Memorials.
JustSayin

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