Alabama Attorney General sues Birmingham for hiding Confederate monument
Source: USA Today
The Alabama Attorney General's Office sued the city of Birmingham on Wednesday for erecting plywood around a monument to Confederate sailors and soldiers.
The city began placing the wood around the monument Tuesday evening, days after a white supremacist rally at a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., led to violence.
In a statement Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said the action violated a law passed by the Alabama Legislature this year aimed at preserving historic structures.
"My office has determined that by affixing tarps and placing plywood around the Linn Park Memorial such that it is hidden from view, the defendants have 'altered' or 'otherwise disturbed' the memorial in violation of the letter and spirit of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act," Marshall said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/16/alabama-attorney-general-sues-birmingham-hiding-confederate-monument/574781001/
Phoenix61
(17,023 posts)rickford66
(5,530 posts)cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)steel reinforced cement wall? Ya know, purely to prevent anyone from desecrating it.
liquid diamond
(1,917 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Then put the picture on all 4 sides.
It willnot be hidden then.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)But that's stupid, making sure the feelings of Nazis are safe from those mean ol' liberals is clearly way more important.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)What do people expect, hands across America?
Now, I KNOW not everyone in Alabama is a racist redneck, but they have more than their share, and those in the RepubliKLAN party - the party of racists, xenophobes, homophobes, hydrophobes, and every other phobe there is - are responsible for stupid shit like this.
We might be heading toward an encore presentation of the "Civil" War, and NOT the Ken Burns series.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)They are radical non-Americans.
dsc
(52,172 posts)not the state.
knightmaar
(748 posts)Take down the plywood
Point another "monument" next to it. Just a big arrow with the words "Racist Traitor Slaveowner" on it.
I can come up with these all day.
TheBlackAdder
(28,242 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)Arent right wingers big on strict constructionism? If its not written specifically in black and white, its not the law. Thats why the constitution has no right to privacy according to them.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)I swear I heard him say that!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)cities and counties have to have their laws approved at the STATE level.
there is very little autonomy below the state level.
So if there is a state law against removing a monument, the state has to actually change the law.
The Legislature is not known for speedy decisions on most things.