House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from “America’s most sacred shrine,” Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, “until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process.”
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the GOP lawmakers said the monument’s removal “does not align with the original intent of Congress.”
The Civil War Unknowns memorial is presumed to hold a number of confederate remains, and is quite close to Arlington House (Robert E Lee being the former owner). That should be enough of a monument to those who tried to overthrow the United States.
FWIW they didn’t try to overthrow the United States. They tried to leave the United States because they hated America for failing to enforce slavery. Confederate states already controlled Congress, but they could not abuse their majority power to subjugate the rest of the country, so they decided they wanted to leave.
FWIW, At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
Read the very next sentence, and then the rest of the article.
In the Senate, however, the fall of Sumter was the latest in a series of events that culminated in war.
On November 6, 1860, in an election that brought the new Republican Party to national power, Abraham Lincoln was elected president by a strictly northern vote. Four days later, on November 10, Senator James Chesnut resigned his Senate seat and returned home to South Carolina to draft an ordinance of secession. One day later, South Carolina’s James Hammond also pledged to support the Confederacy “with all the strength I have.”
Word for word, it supports what I wrote. The pro-slavery contingent already had a majority in government, and the secessionist resignations caused a crisis in government. They weren’t trying to take over, they were trying to leave because they had no faith in the power of the federal government to enforce slavery, which was the law of the land.
If they wanted to just leave they probably shouldn’t have bombarded Fort Sumter - would’ve still been a war but the narrative may have played to their dumb Lost Cause bullshit better.
Also they turned traitor because new states joining wouldn’t be slave states, and thus they would become a minority and slavery would disappear.
If my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
The Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter because they knew they could take it and they wanted it. The narrative was always going to be tied to slavery, and even if they had won the war and become independent nations, they would still be racist shitbags.
The joining of new states was also part of it, and one could argue that the writing was on the wall for the abolitionist movement. But the fact remains that the Confederate states opposed states’ rights on the subject of slavery, and wanted to enforce slavery in all states. When Lincoln won, it became clear that wouldn’t happen despite the fact that they already were in control of the legislature. So they tried to leave, and take half of America with them.
failing to enforce slavery.
I thought it was more due to not permitting slavery in the newer territories? Enforce makes it sound like slavery was mandatory.
Nope. Lincoln wasn’t threatening to free the slaves prior to seceesion, and the Escaped Slaves Act was federal law. Southern states had the majority in Congress, but individual states like Wisconsin and Vermont were freeing slaves that reached their borders, and Lincoln was not going to use force to override states rights. The articles of secession were written because the southern states didn’t think the Union was doing enough to enforce slavery, which was, at least on paper, mandatory.
Arlington used to be the plantation of RE Lee and we built a cemetery over it as a fuck you to the Confederates and this is now a fuck you to their kin.
They should have just grown up but instead they plotted revenge by AGAIN trying to destroy our country.
They are condemned to being losers forever.
Good riddance!
No. Fuck you traitors.
Are we done pretending that they’re not an entire party of racist cowards? I mean, logical and reasonable people who think for themselves never thought otherwise, but this question is for the racist cowards.
Are you don’t pretending you’re not yet?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from “America’s most sacred shrine,” Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, “until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process.”
“The Department of Defense must comply with this request or risk denigrating the delicate balance of the principles of separation of powers between Congress and the Executive, outlined in the Constitution,” they added.
“In 1900, Congress authorized Confederate remains to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and in 1906, Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, permitted construction of a monument honoring our country’s new shared reconciliation from its troubled divisions,” they wrote.
The cemetery’s website says that the statue depicts a classical female figure with a crown of olive leaves, rebel soldiers, and enslaved Black people.
In a letter to The Washington Post, signed by family members, they stated: "This statue intended to rewrite history to justify the Confederacy and the subsequent racist Jim Crow laws.
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sure. just work with them on universal healthcare. making higher tax brackets. and raising the debt cap along with requiring taxes be collected to meet whats budgeted. oh and gun control. help me folks. what else?
