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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Charlottesville judge rules Confederate statues will stay

A judge in Charlottesville, Virginia has ruled the controversial statues to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Stonewall Jackson must stay.

More than two years after the Feb. 2017 vote by the Charlottesville City Council to remove the statue of Lee, which prompted a lawsuit against the city and was the impetus for what eventually became a deadly white nationalist rally, Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore ruled the memorials can’t be touched.

“Even though the city wants to remove the statues, the judge said it can’t,” said reporter Hawes Spencer, who was in the courtroom during Wednesday’s first day of the civil trial.

Virginia law bans the removal or movement of war memorials erected in a locality.

“The judge’s opinion was not about the propriety or the goodness of having the statues in the downtown area,” Spencer said. “The judge’s opinion was simply about the fact that Virginia law makes it illegal to move them or encroach upon them.”

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks , Judge!

Anonymous said...

Awesome news! God Bless the South.

Time to run those Socialists and illegal aliens out of our Sister State, Virginia!

Anonymous said...

ITS FREAKING HISTORY. BAD OR GOOD.

Anonymous said...

About Frigg'in Time !!!!

Salisbury student @ University said...

But, I am like so scared now

have to get to my safe space

Anonymous said...

DEMS R ALSO TELLING THE SNOWFLAKES THAT 6 MILLION JEWS AND CHRISTIANS WEREN'T MURDERED BY NAZIS.

Anonymous said...

Now that the Statues are down, tell us how your life has improved. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Anonymous said...

At tonights Democratic Socialist Debate they brought up Slavery and Reparations.

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman: Are we finally reaching the tipping point and beginning to stand up to the cultural Marxist democrat rabble?

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman : From what I recently read, even several Jewish organizations have revised downward from that 6 million figure.i don’t recall what the current number is stated as.