I love the chutzpah of this guy. That is increasingly needed to defend common sense, the law, and pluralistic public discourse: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/05/02/judge-blocks-confederate-monuments-removal/83813954/
I left a comment. I do not expect it to be removed, but thought I’d pass it along. I particularly like the book burning analogy.
He’s right: this IS the equivalent of a book burning. The first task of Fascists is rewriting history. The simple fact is that the Civil War had two sides, and that of the South was a very principled and in the view of most of us more accurate reading of the Constitution, which allowed States to leave the Union whenever they wanted. This case was never tried before the Supreme Court. Jefferson Davis was never tried for treason for this exact reason.
And every new report I hear on the radio–I don’t watch TV–tried to connect ALL Conferederate monuments the country over with the shooting at the church. How and why should this be connected? It isn’t. This is PROPAGANDA. It is an operative pretext, and useful lie.
I have also heard repeatedly that Jefferson Davis is at the top. This, too, is a lie. This monument was erected by grieving women who lost husbands, sons, and fathers in that awful and unnecessary war.
I know virtually no one reads history, but the blacks in the South did not get de facto liberty for a hundred years after that war, in many places, and their economic well being was set back at least 50 by the destruction of the South, of all its brightest lights, best lands, and systems of wealth of all sorts.
I’m glad to see someone fighting back against this madness. It is simply not the case that ANYBODY, after 130 years, is SUDDENLY or extremely bothered by this. It is simply the left wing fascists, trying to destroy everything which reminds people of a time before the tyranny they intend, one based, of course, like all others, on propaganda memes of “fairness”, “Justice”, and “Progress”.