City of Richmond removes statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson

NY Post ^ | July 1, 2020 | Kenneth Garger

[conservative98]

A massive statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson was removed from a park in Richmond, Virginia, Wednesday.

The sculpture — depicting Jackson on horseback — was taken down by work crews just hours after Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered all Confederate statues be removed from city land.

Stoney said the decree in the onetime capital of the Confederacy is “long overdue.”

“Those statues stood high for over 100 years for a reason, and it was to intimidate and to show black and brown people in this city who was in charge,” the mayor said.

“I think the healing can now begin in the city of Richmond.”

[CJ Wolf]

Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?

[Viking2002]

My neighbors and I volunteer to erect it at the end of our street.

[hanamizu]

“Those statues stood high for over 100 years for a reason, and it was to intimidate and to show black and brown people in this city who was in charge,”

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I’m wondering, were there a lot of “brown” people in Richmond over 100 years ago? And when it comes to it, why would “brown” people care?

[MuttTheHoople]

Barnard Bee said it in disgust.

[TMN78247]

In 2020, the fact is that the GEN Stonewall Jackson statue is PRIVATELY OWNED & ON PRIVATELY OWNED land & therefore its removal by ANYONE except the lawful owners of the property was UNLAWFUL.

That said, in 2020, the FACT that the mayor of Richmond committed a criminal act in having the statue removed W/O the consent of the lawful owners seems to HAVE NO CONSEQUENCE at law.
(Do you or any other reader believe that the mayor or his crowd of clowns will be PUNISHED for his/their CRIMES in 2020 or in the future??)

Yours, TMN78247

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

The mayor is a criminal. The law prohibits this lawlessness. He of guilty of a felony.

[mrsmith]

Richmond: “We dismiss the benefits our people receive from Civil War tourists... it’s only right our population suffer losses for their past!”

Good socialists won’t mind being a little poorer for a good cause.

[BrexitBen]

Black folks don’t care.

It’s rich, white, basement-dwelling Ivy League grads, with worthless humanities degrees.

[dfwgator]

Black folks don’t care.

They're sitting back, laughing their asses off at all these stupid white people.

[fso301]

Remember, the first monuments removed by the Marxists were religious. Confederate monuments are the second class of monuments they are having removed.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Democrat legislature gave it to him, went into effect today.

[SecondAmendment]

> The stupidity of Democrats never ceases to amaze.

The elected Dem officials are evil geniuses, it's the "useful idiots" who vote for them who are the dummies...

[euram]

So, instead of letting the howling rabid mob tear down the statues, we have mayors odering the statues torn down by crews paid for by the taxpayers. We know who the mayors and governors are working for and who they spit on.

[vmpolesov]

Is that GMU? They always seemed to me to steer clear of politics and just get on with the biz of running a univ.

[Agamemnon]

The Mayor of Richmond has absolutely broken the law here. Who will bring the lawsuit?

Virginia makes a specific provision in the statute quoted below for Virginia citizens – not just law enforcement – to [take] proper measures and [exercise] proper means for the protection, preservation and care of same.

I wonder whether Virginia case law exists where armed defense with possible use of lethal force has constituted a legally justifiable application of “proper measures” and “proper means.”

Code of Virginia

Table of Contents » Title 15.2. Counties, Cities and Towns » Subtitle II. Powers of Local Government » Chapter 18. Buildings, Monuments and Lands Generally » Article 3. Miscellaneous » § 15.2-1812. Memorials for war veterans

• Section § 15.2-1812. Memorials for war veterans.

A locality may, within the geographical limits of the locality, authorize and permit the erection of monuments or memorials for any war or conflict, or for any engagement of such war or conflict, to include the following monuments or memorials: Algonquin (1622), French and Indian (1754-1763), Revolutionary (1775-1783), War of 1812 (1812-1815), Mexican (1846-1848), Confederate or Union monuments or memorials of the War Between the States (1861-1865), Spanish-American (1898), World War I (1917-1918), World War II (1941-1945), Korean (1950-1953), Vietnam (1965-1973), Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm (1990-1991), Global War on Terrorism (2000- ), Operation Enduring Freedom (2001- ), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003- ).

If such are erected, it shall be unlawful for the authorities of the locality, or any other person or persons, to disturb or interfere with any monuments or memorials so erected, or to prevent its citizens from taking proper measures and exercising proper means for the protection, preservation and care of same. For purposes of this section, "disturb or interfere with" includes removal of, damaging or defacing monuments or memorials , or, in the case of the War Between the States, the placement of Union markings or monuments on previously designated Confederate memorials or the placement of Confederate markings or monuments on previously designated Union memorials. The governing body may appropriate a sufficient sum of money out of its funds to complete or aid in the erection of monuments or memorials to the veterans of such wars. The governing body may also make a special levy to raise the money necessary for the erection or completion of any such monuments or memorials, or to supplement the funds already raised or that may be raised by private persons, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion or other organizations. It may also appropriate, out of any funds of such locality, a sufficient sum of money to permanently care for, protect and preserve such monuments or memorials and may expend the same thereafter as other funds are expended.

Code 1950, § 15-696; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-270; 1982, c. 19; 1988, c. 284; 1997, c. 587; 1998, c. 752; 2005, c. 390; 2010, c. 860.

FReegards!

[Lurkinanloomin]

That was repealed in the last session.

[Long Jon No Silver]

There is one single goal for this anarchy.It’s not per se to create a utopia with all people living in harmony. That might be from the humanist side. But from the string puller who uses upheavals there is the master goal. Of destroying the U.S as a safe haven for Jews. All the threads will come together and the powers of a super surveillance state hostile to Jews, with an anti Israel foreign policy will become a reality. And when the U.S is no longer a safe haven, their last bastion will be Israel itself. And it’s been written what will then happen

[mass55th]

They going to take the one down at Virginia Military Tech? What about the museum they have there that features General Lee’s horse Traveler? The horse is white, so it must be racist too.

[MrChips]

Is Lee next? Or are there still lawsuits?

[MrChips]

Who are the lawful owners?