Lawless in Alabama?

No matter what anyone says, many Alabamians love those who break the law. Of course, that's only the laws with which they disagree. It's civil disobedience, don't you know? 

No, this blog isn't about a state issue, but a local one; however, we will inject here that several have commented to us that former judge Roy Moore broke Alabama gun law by possessing a gun at a public political rally. Apparently he didn't since the rally wasn't public. No, the rally was held on private property and those who attended had paid for admittance. 

They paid? As in cash money? A fool and...

Returning to the local issue, for those not aware, the City of Florence entered into an agreement with the Retirement Systems of Alabama in which it promised to establish an attraction at Veterans Park or, if not, to use the two million set aside for the attraction to refurbish the Florence Conference Center. After a little over a dozen years and still no attraction, the RSA has asked for the two million to be transferred to begin work on the refurbishment of a building now in its name. 

Pretty straight forward, we'd say. Yet we see letters to the editor at the TD which have implied the city council is simply giving the funds to the RSA. In fact, a little bribery was also implied. 

We read one letter twice and believe the author to be fairly educated. Yet he didn't understand what a contact was? Or did he simply think the city should have not kept its end of the bargain? We're going with the latter. 

After all, how much Alabama history has been built on sheer lawlessness?