Whoever says lightning doesn't strike twice in the Same Place,
has not met Virginia's Governor Terry McAuliffe
Last year he put an end to the Battle Flag on SCV car tags.
This week he Vetoed a Bill that would protect All Veteran's Monuments.
In his zeal to abolish Confederate imagery in Virginia,
He has spit in the face of all Veterans !
Yes Lightning has struck twice in the same place !
Yep he has "Thrown the Baby Out With the Bath Water"
I have an idea for Governor McAuliffe =
I'll buy the ticket --
carpetbaggers,northerners, and yankees....they are all all HATER'S....THE DAMN YANKEE'S ARE STILL FIGHTING THE SOUTH WITH THEIR DESTRUCTION OF OUR SOUTHERN RIGHTS TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES HISTORY......THE ARE DESTROYING US BY MENTAL ABUSE AND WORDS.....I AM READY TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT TO PROTECT US.....THE YANKEES ARE COWARDS THAT THEY STILL CANNOT STAND THAT WE ARE PROUD AND HONOR OUR VETERANS AND SOUTHERN PEOPLE....GET OVER IT YANKS YOU WON THE WAR BUT CSA WON ALL THE BATTLES MORE THAN YOU AND YOU WENT RUNNING BACK TO THE NORTH AND CRIED....IF THE WAR WENT ON A FEW MORE MONTHS THE SOUTH WOULD HAVE WON THE WAR AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO WORRY AND US......LINCOLN WAS A PUSSY AND WILL BE THE WORST PRESIDENT FOR KILLING ALL THE AMERICANS THAT DIED IN THE SOUTH.AND NORTH...THE WORST WAR ON RECORD.....KEEP YOU MOUTH SHUT OR GET OUT OF THE SOUTH...JEFFERSON DAVIS AND OUR GENERALS WERE NOT BARBARIC LIKE YOURS ....WE DID NOT TAKE EVERYTHING IN OUR HOMES....RAPE OUR WOMEN....AND BURN OUR CITIES TO THE GROUND....MAYBE WE NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN!....GO CONFEDERATE SATES OF AND AMERICA.....LONG LIVE DIXIE!
ReplyDeleteDon't hold back Daniel, Tell us how you really feel !
DeleteDav,
ReplyDeleteIndividual communities have a right to ensure that their community represents them. If you and those that live around you feel like a Confederate monument is important to the community for whatever reason; then your community should be able to preserve the monument. However, if the the community next to you feels like the Confederate monument in their community does not represent them; then they should be able to remove the monument. I'm not in favor of removing monuments, but I also think communities have a right to determine their landscape.
Representatives of a number of locality's presented and approved the Bill, so the peoples voices were heard and ignored.
DeleteGood to hear from ya Rob !
DeleteChecks and balances Dav. If truly a lot of people wanted this Bill, then the VA legislature would have the votes to overrule the veto, yes?
DeleteNot at this time, the vote is split along party lines
Delete(SURPRISE!!!) and promises have been made to Resubmit the bill.
I kinda get the feeling that if the Bill had Excluded Confederate monuments it would have passed without a hitch.
I thought the governor's response was pretty on point. It is a contentious issue, and communities should be able to evaluate the symbols that best fits them. People migrate; by the thousands sometimes. This means that entire counties, towns, cities, etc. can be subject to extreme demographic shifts. That means that cultural communities evolve over time - it isn't very progressive to not allow those landscapes to evolve with the people.
DeleteIn a way I agree on allowing a city or community to progress. But not alter or erase history.
DeleteIn a local, and close to my heart issue, Mark Whitaker a Portsmouth VA councilman ( who owes $223.000.00 in back taxes ) and city Mayor Ken Wright ( Who refused to stop for law enforcement ) are leading the effort to move a monument in downtown Portsmouth. This was on the heels of the SC Church shootings. Now I have it on good authority that on the night of the shootings not one of the four soldiers on the monument left their post or were involved in the shootings. So it's a matter of coat tail politics.
As for demographic shifts, Hampton Roads is a Military area, the population can change by many thousands "overnight" when a Carrier group comes in or leaves.
It is my opinion that the proposed removal of the Confederate Monument in Portsmouth is kinda like ISIS
moving in and destroying existing Christian monuments because the community standards have now changed. That evolution is unacceptable.