Posted on 07/24/2015 7:58:31 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Group takes a shovel to Confederate General’s grave Posted 10:18 pm, July 22, 2015, by Eryn Taylor
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group was fed up with waiting, so they got a shovel and dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grave and statue in a public park in the Medical District.
The group says they wanted the statue and remains removed for a long time, because he was a Confederate soldier, a KKK leader and a slave trader.
“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” said Isaac Richmond with Commission on Religion and Racism. ” We got a fresh shovel full, and we hope that everybody else will follow suit and dig him up.”
“They can protest all they want. Just because they don’t like it, doesn’t mean they are right. Digging up the park is just pure and simple vandalism,” said Lee Millar, the spokesperson for the Forrest family and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
He said every person who held onto that shovel broke the law today.
“That’s plain vandalism,” he said.
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I’m assuming Byrd’s grave will be next? Right?
The blacks have gotten every concession under the sun and their race baiters are obsolete. This is just some desperate ploy for relevance. Who cares that some civil war general is buried in Memphis? I used to live in that dump. If a big ole’ asteroid sized sinkhole opened up and swallowed the city, would we even notice?
I love the posts on Robert “SHEETS” Byrd’s “Find A Grave” webpage. LOL!
See the waving Confederate Flag. LOL!
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54200704
How would they like it if one of their kids committed a heinous act and died, they someone desecrated the grave?
Disgusting.
Not a peep from the black plantation slaves in the Democrat party.
“If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,”
That’ll do it every time.
If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,......................................... Riiiiiiight, lets just erase all of our history and rewrite it to make everyone feel good. Lots of bad stuff happens in history, then it ends. Good or bad, its history, take it for what it is. My ancestors were probably slaves during the Roman times, should I ask that the Colosseum be torn down and the statues of the Caesars be removed? Why not bulldoze the Pyramids too while we are at it.
46-2-105. Crimes and offenses (a) No person shall willfully destroy, deface, or injure any monument, tomb, gravestone, or other structure placed in the cemetery, or any roadway, walk, fence or enclosure in or around the same, or injure any tree, plant or shrub therein, or hunt or shoot therein, play at any game or amusement therein, or loiter for lascivious or lewd purposes therein, or interfere, by words or actions, with any funeral procession or any religious exercises. (b) A violation of this section is a Class E felony. 
I called the governor’s office to ask why desecration of a grave is allowed.
(615) 741-2001
I’m so sick of politicians.
Already in progress... 
Gee, I was wondering if Elvis Presley’s grave would be next? After all, settling the debate concerning his death or possibility of living in seclusion once and for all would serve humanity just as much as digging up Forrest’s grave.
Desecrating a grave. Typical democrat behavior...
It’s not just vandalism, it’s desecrating a grave, which is a class A misdemeanor in Tennessee.
In August 1977, just two weeks after The King's death, police were told by informant Ronnie Adkins that he had infiltrated a group that planned to steal Elvis Presley's 900-pound, steel-lined, copper-plated coffin and hold his remains for ransom.
With this information, a police task force was assigned to watch the grave at Forest Hills Cemetery in suburban Memphis and successfully caught three men—Raymond Green, Eugene Nelson, and Ronnie Adkins—snooping around Presley's mausoleum. Just how the men were going to get through the two concrete slabs and solid sheet of marble that covered the coffin is unknown, since no tools or explosives were ever found. That doesn't even take into account how they planned to remove the coffin without a forklift. The Memphis police felt like something about the situation didn't add up, so until further evidence about the plot could be uncovered, they charged the men with criminal trespassing and kept them in jail.
As the investigation continued, it became apparent that the story Adkins told police was full of holes. He said the men were going to be paid $40,000 each by a mysterious criminal mastermind who planned to ransom the body for $10 million. But he couldn't tell police how the men intended to get their reward or how to contact this shadowy kingpin once the deed had been done. With no actual crime being committed (other than the men being in the cemetery after dark), and the evidence against the men being so weak, all charges were eventually dropped.
As a result of the almost, kinda, sorta attempted grave robbery, the Presley estate requested permission to move the bodies of Elvis and his mother to Graceland where they could be monitored 24-hours a day by staff security and closed-circuit TV cameras. Of course they're still at Graceland and have become one of the main attractions to the site.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/23184/worth-more-dead-alive-5-famous-grave-robberies
Desecrating graves now. What a nation we’ve become.
Yes. Yes, you would. Read about the New Madrid Fault...
Thank you, KeyLargo!
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