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Work to remove the memorial had begun Monday before the restraining order was issued, but the memorial remains in place on cemetery grounds.

A cemetery spokesperson said Monday that Arlington is complying with the restraining order, but referred all other questions to the Justice Department.

The cemetery had said on Friday that it expected to complete the removal this week. It said the removal was required by Congress, and that it was complying with environmental and historic-preservation regulations. But the lawsuit accused the Army, which runs the cemetery, of violating regulations in seeking a hasty removal of the memorial.

“The removal will desecrate, damage, and likely destroy the Memorial longstanding at ANC as a grave marker and impede the Memorial’s eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places,” the lawsuit accuses.

The temporary restraining order issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said that a lawyer for the plaintiffs represented to the court that the work at the memorial involves the disturbance of gravesites.

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Total BS.

Time to bring the draft back. Maybe if we had more people serve there would be a better understanding of where this country has been and where it is headed.

The ones pushing the woke BS don't have a clue.

I've heard there is a lot of WOKENESS in the military these days.
So, I think you are barking up the wrong tree if you think the military can be counted on to teach a better understanding of history when you have the likes of Woke General Ty Seidule of West Point who was the head of the History Department at The United States Military Academy teaching falsehoods about the Civil War and Confederacy to cadets. Ty Seidule has never been interested in teaching real history, but more in distorting it to arrive at his own conclusions. What could anyone expect from a man with a political axe to grind?

Incidentally, Seidule was on the Naming Commission that recommended removing monuments and renaming buildings and military bases.
To his credit, Trump had vetoed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which included the Naming Commission but was overridden by Congress with bipartisan support.

After initially issuing an injunction halting the removal of the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, black judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. has ruled against the group Defend Arlington so that the memorial could be disassembled. Arlington National Cemetery swiftly removed the memorial, which will reportedly be relocated to New Market, Virginia, the site of a major Confederate victory. The sole consolation is that the monument will not be destroyed.

The judge justified his ruling by saying that the monument removal did not disrupt graves. Defend Arlington disputes this.

It is pretty sad when we have to pick nits about what is the definition of grave desecration. Here is one. You decide. pic.twitter.com/Pq5mEw2fNH

— Defend Arlington (@DefendArlington) December 20, 2023

The judge dismissed claims that the plaintiffs would suffer irreparable harm by saying that the monument would not be destroyed, that the monument would still have historical significance “without the statue atop it,” and that their claims of emotional harm are “generally speculative and not concrete.” The judge referred to the monument in his ruling as the “Confederate Reconciliation Memorial,” combining the two terms that many observers have used distinctly. Generally, proponents of the memorial have called it the Reconciliation Memorial, while opponents called it the Confederate Memorial.

Sculptor Moses Ezekiel said that his intention was for it to be a “peace monument” and said the South had fought for “a constitutional right and not to uphold slavery.” The quote featured on the monument reads: “They shall turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” The sculptor was Jewish and had been the first Jewish cadet at the Virginia Military Institute. During his life, that was considered a reason to honor him. That hasn’t lasted.

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https://www.amren.com/commentary/2023/12/an-end-to-reconciliation/

Been a member here almost 5 years and contributed 2 inflammatory posts…

That line from George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” might serve as a sort of motto for the woke apparatchiks who run our lives today.

Perhaps it’s because they have, as one wag put it, mistaken Orwell’s stern admonition about the dangers of totalitarianism for a how-to manual.

In any event, the present’s attack on the past by those holding the reins of power continues apace.

And the goal, just as in Orwell’s novel, is to revamp the future by redefining the past.

John Calhoun was an apologist for slavery, so the college named for him at Yale must be renamed.

Never mind that he was valedictorian at Yale, a member of the House of Representatives, a senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and vice president.

Never mind, too, that he was one of the most powerful minds and greatest orators of his day.

He had beliefs that the beautiful, pampered people of today find objectionable.

So he had to go.

It was the same with the great mining magnate Cecil Rhodes.

He made a stupendous fortune in what’s now South Africa, endowed Oriel College, Oxford, with part of his fortune, and established the Rhodes scholarship program.

He too was insufficiently enlightened, so a campaign to besmirch his memory and remove all traces of his presence from Oriel College has been underway for years.

From 1924 to 2021, a large equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee stood in a place of honor in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter riots, the statue was removed. Last fall, in a sort of pyromaniacal ritual, it was cut apart with a blow torch and then melted down.

Last month, President Joe Biden had the 109-year-old Reconciliation Monument removed from Arlington National Cemetery.

Just a few days ago, the Biden administration announced that it was removing a statue of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, from a park that had been his home.

That spot will undergo a “rehabilitation” and, in place of Penn, the administration will place a statute of an American Indian in order, to provide a more “inclusive ... interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia.”

The attack on the past is proceeding apace.

Its goal is to efface the contributions of white Europeans, especially white male Europeans, to the formation of Western civilization.

Over the past several years, we have seen a rising tide of assaults on statues and other works of art representing our nation’s history by those who are eager to squeeze that complex story into a box defined by the evolving rules of political correctness.

A vocal minority, claiming victim status, demands the destruction, removal, or concealment of some object of which they disapprove.

Usually, the official response is instant capitulation.

It’s worth noting that the monument controversy signifies something much larger than the attacks on the Old South.

Indeed, the attack involves not just artworks or commemorative objects.

Rather, it encompasses the resources of the past writ large.

It’s an attack on the past for failing to live up to our contemporary notions of virtue.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/orwellian-assault-past-continues