tdubel
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I am posting this not as a political debate, but for historical context. I think this is wrong, but this is the latest bill that has made it to the Senate for approval and it will effectively remove ALL Confederate Statues that are located on National Park Lands. Again, for the sake of history, this is wrong, so this would have the NPS remove the Virginia Memorial Statue at Gettysburg National Park. IMO how anybody with any sense thinks this is ok, is ludicrous. It also includes all Works, Items, Artifacts, etc, it is really overboard. Here is the text:
[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]H.R. 7608. [/FONT][FONT="]Otherwise,[/FONT][FONT="]Sections 441, 442, and 443 are the following:[/FONT]
[FONT="]In addition to these sections, there are other references to Confederate symbolism within this bill. [/FONT][FONT="]Sec. 130. [FONT="]None of the funds appropriated in this Act for a military construction project, as defined by section 2801 of title 10, United States Code, for fiscal year 2021 may be obligated, expended, or used to construct a project located on a military installation bearing the name of a confederate officer, except in the case that a process to replace such names has been initiated.[/FONT][/FONT]
This was my point of many threads ago that we are running amok with pc and cancel culture, this is nuts. It also means that statues of Grant, Washington and anybody else are fair game.
[FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]H.R. 7608. [/FONT][FONT="]Otherwise,[/FONT][FONT="]Sections 441, 442, and 443 are the following:[/FONT]
[FONT="]funding prohibition for confederate flags[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sec. 441. [FONT="]None of the funds made available to the National Park Service by this Act may be used for the purchase or display of a Confederate flag with the exception of specific circumstances where the flags provide historical context as described in the National Park Service memorandum entitled ‘‘Immediate Action Required, No Reply Needed: Confederate Flags’’ and dated June 24, 2015.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT="]removal of confederate commemorative works[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sec. 442. [FONT="]Notwithstanding any other provision of law or policy to the contrary, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, the National Park Service shall remove from display all physical Confederate commemorative works, such as statues, monuments, sculptures, memorials, and plaques, as defined by NPS, Management Policies 2006, §9.6.1.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT="]inventory of assets with confederate names[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sec. 443. [FONT="]Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations an inventory of all assets under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior with Confederate names.[/FONT][/FONT][FONT="]In addition to these sections, there are other references to Confederate symbolism within this bill. [/FONT][FONT="]Sec. 130. [FONT="]None of the funds appropriated in this Act for a military construction project, as defined by section 2801 of title 10, United States Code, for fiscal year 2021 may be obligated, expended, or used to construct a project located on a military installation bearing the name of a confederate officer, except in the case that a process to replace such names has been initiated.[/FONT][/FONT]
This was my point of many threads ago that we are running amok with pc and cancel culture, this is nuts. It also means that statues of Grant, Washington and anybody else are fair game.