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A regular reader has sent us a most informative and profound comment on the monument removal issue:
Like so many of the things going on today, we only get part of the story. The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act is a good example of this. In listening to the news reports about moving the Confederate statues, I heard there is a $25000 fine for violating the law, and I thought, "this can't be all there is". As it turns out that is not all there is. The officials who approve moving the statue not only have violated their oath of office and can be punished for violating the law, they are subject to a $5000 a day fine until the statue is replaced.
The bill says;
This bill also reduces the proposed penalty increase from $10,000 per day on entities that fail to get a waiver to rename, relocate, remove, alter or otherwise disturb public property until the property has been restored to its original condition to $5,000 per day until the entity has taken full restorative action to comply with the provision of this bill. However, this bill provides that the Attorney General may state the fines upon submission of supporting documentation that the restoration has begun.
The Alabama attorney general said;
“First, any elected official who removes a historic monument or statue in violation of Alabama law has broken the law. He has not simply decided to ‘pay a fee’ so that he can lawfully have the monument or statue removed. He has committed an illegal act.
“Second, any elected official sworn into office by taking an oath to uphold the law, who then breaks a duly enacted and constitutional law, has violated that oath.
“Third, despite what some newspapers might have you believe, any elected official who disregards the duties of his office in this manner has done so not out of courage, but has done so out of fear. This should not be celebrated, for disregarding the law subverts our democratic system.
The law is clear, why is it not enforced?
Because some laws are unjust and to be honest just plain stupid. Today, many people find themselves canceled, but some become standouts in history. The soldiers who stopped the murderous actions of a few others killing Vietnamese villagers. How about the women who marched against the gestapo to save their Jewish husbands before WW2? Have you never watched Schindler's list? However, I will say this, let's leave that glorious teaching statue in front of the of the courthouse. We wouldn't want any fines levied on us for removing it. In fact, I vote we add on to it! I'm thinking we should add 3 sets of good iron link chains leading to 3 slaves. After all, "The Negro have no better friend than the Southern White Man!" What? Is that too much? Okay, okay, just one chain....linking his hand to the iron collar around a 11 year old black boys neck. Yes, Union soldiers committed outrages. Theft, etc... show me a local Union Statue and we can add a fainting southern bell to it. Their sins have nothing to do our own. That statue didn't go up until 1901 NOT because Alabama was too poor, (we paid 75% of the south's war debt). It didn't go up because we had bled enough, and were tired of the war waged by rich men and died for by poor. Here's a bit of wisdom from that spotless leader Robert E Lee, he said in 1869, "I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered."
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