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The removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding that groups who tried to halt it failed to prove that keeping the monument was in the public’s best interest.

The removal of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding groups who tried to halt it failed to prove that keeping the monument was in the public’s best interest.

US District Judge Ronnie D. Alston granted a temporary restraining order Monday, barring the memorial’s removal after a request for a preliminary injunction by the groups Defend Arlington and Save Southern Heritage Florida.

The groups claimed the Defense Department’s plan to remove the memorial violated the National Environmental Policy Act, and that the department had failed to take care of the grave sites surrounding the memorial site during the removal process.

But in an order filed Tuesday, Alston said the plaintiffs did “not establish that a preliminary injunction is in the public interest.”

“Plaintiffs’ complaints regarding the removal efforts being likely to damage the gravesites are misinformed or misleading,” the order said.

    • azimir@lemmy.ml
      5·
      10 months ago

      Then install the toilets in the prisons where the Jam 6th insurrectionists are held so they’re forced to piss and shit on their isola.

    • Jaysyn@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s being moved to another Confederate memorial instead of being properly disposed of.

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Other figures on the monument include a Black woman depicted as a “Mammy,” carrying an infant of a White officer, and a Black man following his owner to war, according to the cemetery.

    What the actual fuck.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      Or oppressors or losers. Germany has no issues remembering the Nazis despite the lack of Nazi memorials. They do have a ton of memorials to the victims though. That is something this nation needs more of. In Berlin, you can’t go more than a few blocks without walking over a stumbling block which details the name, birth, and death of someone sent to a death camp. We should have that here. Every slave we know of should have a block in front of the plantation they were enslaved at.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    2·
    10 months ago

    Anyone who cries foul over not venerating traitorous slavers makes their abhorrent worldview abundantly clear.

  • Rhaedas@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    Save Southern Heritage Florida

    Not all heritages are best to save. What would General Lee himself say both about trying to glorify that past as well as having statues to the losing side? I’ll bet supporters either don’t know, or aren’t honest enough to admit they do know.