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Memphis City Council Votes to Dig Up Grave of Confederate General, Sell His Statue
Breitbart ^ | July 11, 2015 | By AWR Hawkins

Posted on 07/11/2015 10:17:23 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.

The body of Forrest’s wife will be exhumed as well.

According to Local Memphis, the council voted to exhume Forrest’s remains from Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. They plan to sell a statue of Forrest as well–they are thinking of “selling the statue to anyone who wants it.”

Forrest was a businessman who become wealthy in the cotton trade prior to the Civil War. He abandoned that to fight federal forces once the war commenced, eventually becoming a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army. He was known for waging brutal warfare against federal forces in Mississippi and Tennessee.

The Forrest family has made clear that they are “solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place.” They are opposed to moving the statue as well. . .

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To: HiTech RedNeck

Please, please...don’t be logical.

You’ll ruin the story!


21 posted on 07/11/2015 10:31:30 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Utterly disgusting. No wonder Obama won’t fight the Taliban. He’s one of them.


22 posted on 07/11/2015 10:34:40 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Brad from Tennessee

We are going to disavow the history of the 19th and 20th centuries to be politically correct and to have more ammunition in the racist fight against all whites. More and more blacks will be anxious to demonstrate their hatred of whites. Hip Hop wins.


23 posted on 07/11/2015 10:36:30 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Brad from Tennessee

NO WORDS! Now they HAVE crossed the line ... These sycophant retards need to get the living crap kicked out of them.

They are going to desecrate a grave because the man entombed was a confederate officer? Really?

Where the hell does this sh*t stop? Only one thing will put an end to this lunacy - armed resistance against these fascists! When they are so emboldened that they seek to desecrate the graves of the dead, it is time to forcefully put them down. No quarter given, none expected.


24 posted on 07/11/2015 10:37:12 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: JennysCool
“Ghouls."

Justice will be served when the relevant ghouls on the Memphis City Council are treated in the same manner.


25 posted on 07/11/2015 10:38:27 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: jessduntno

“He was known for waging brutal warfare against federal forces in Mississippi and Tennessee.”

Correction:

“He was known for waging brutal warfare against the fascist forces of the genocidal Dictator and war criminal, Abraham Lincoln, in Mississippi and Tennessee.”


26 posted on 07/11/2015 10:42:02 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What exact purpose does moving a grave serve ? Is the problem the city or county where they are buried ? This is nuts.


27 posted on 07/11/2015 10:42:22 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: clearcarbon

And all this for some skinny pasty-faced drug-addled loser who thought he’d shoot up a church. Amazing how the Left and its lapdog media has to use sheer hysteria to rip the fabric of the Republic just to make some sort of vague point.


28 posted on 07/11/2015 10:44:07 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Visiting Graceland has been one of those things on our bucket list. As long as the stench of political correctness permeates this city you couldn't pay me to step foot in Memphis. Speaking of Elvis why not ban his rendition of Dixie and make every man, woman and child (and humaniods of indeterminate gender) undergo lobotomies to forget they ever heard this song?
29 posted on 07/11/2015 10:44:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: JimSEA

Hip-hop wins?

Not so fast ... We have better weapons - and shoot with greater accuracy than the gang bangers.


30 posted on 07/11/2015 10:46:27 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: WTFOVR
NO WORDS! Now they HAVE crossed the line ...

They crossed the line long before now but the destruction now is going to be irreversible for many reasons to numerous to list hear. Quite frankly, I doubt that any politician can reverse this lunacy because no matter how much popular support they may have, the lawless government will just ignore its subjects and import more illiterates to mold.

I pray a lot that God will intercede and if He sees fit, blot us out of existence. But there may be an alternative acceptable to God, a path to repentance that includes some meaningful sacrifice.

With our country being destroyed, perhaps a planned demolition would be a better alternative to the leftist transformation. There are a lot of means to do this short of violence though armed defense should never be ruled out. Is it not better that the destruction follow a path that leads to liberty instead of the police state path? I think it can be done.

31 posted on 07/11/2015 10:50:55 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: justa-hairyape

If something like the footprint of a building is going to be covering the site, one could see why. But why the lackadaisical attitude about the statue. Wouldn’t it be logical to keep it near wherever the new grave location is?


32 posted on 07/11/2015 10:52:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: AlaskaErik

>>>He’s a fellow Democrat, for cryin’ out loud<<<

The real question is, if they Dig him up can he still Vote?


33 posted on 07/11/2015 10:54:00 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (I know I left my Tagline around here somewhere...)
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To: petitfour

I thought about that. They are really asking for it. (This has nothing to do with Christian faith. People who conjure demons are the most susceptible to demons themselves.)
Creepy stuff.


34 posted on 07/11/2015 10:55:43 PM PDT by KGeorge (Hell no- we ain't forgettin')
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To: Kickass Conservative

If he was a Democrat, it would be very disrespectful to prevent it.


35 posted on 07/11/2015 10:55:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SpaceBar
Just wait. Castrated honkys are mostly silent about this abomination, but wait till those people start demanding we tear down any and all WW2 memorials. After all, the armed forces were segregated till, IIRC, the Battle of the Bulge when Patton incorporated Negro troops into combat roles. They aren't going to stop with the civil war memorials.
36 posted on 07/11/2015 10:56:59 PM PDT by LouAvul (Venal and evil people are destroying the world you live in.)
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To: KGeorge

The devil works through con games. He looks for people who will believe.


37 posted on 07/11/2015 10:57:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Been say from the beginning.. the CBFlag was the start not the end....let the dead rest...
38 posted on 07/11/2015 10:58:04 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=Newspeak)
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To: JennysCool
"And all this for some skinny pasty-faced drug-addled loser who thought he’d shoot up a church. Amazing how the Left and its lapdog media has to use sheer hysteria to rip the fabric of the Republic just to make some sort of vague point."

It's the kind of behavior we've come to expect from an ideology that sends its unborn to landfills throughout the country.
39 posted on 07/11/2015 10:59:40 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Impala64ssa

Banning Elvis’ version of Dixie just might be THE reason for a CWII. Them Elvis fans are series.


40 posted on 07/11/2015 10:59:44 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'll vote for a democrat before I'll vote for a rino.)
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