Sunday, July 12, 2015

Legal FIRESTORM Coming? Memphis City Council Better Read Their Own Laws Before Digging Up General Forrest and Selling His Statue

Via LH

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After the story reported by Liberty Unyielding this week: Memphis City Council Votes To Dig Up Remains Of Confederate General, and wife we did a little researching and discovered that what the Memphis City Council just voted on is against multiple code and laws.

The Memphis City Council seems bent on creating a firestorm over the removal of all traces of General Nathan B. Forrest, CSA. They do this in the face of opposition from his descendants. 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. The council will also be in opposition with at least two applicable State laws.

One law deals with the functions of disinterment, requiring justifications and a judge’s approval:

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 13, 2015 at 2:05 AM

    Do we need to put (assassin) teams on the ground there yet?

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  2. Brock TownsendJuly 13, 2015 at 5:01 AM

    No, they'll just pout, call everyone racist when they don't get their way and return to their sandbox to play.

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