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Confederate monuments: Opponents exhaust legal challenges
May 16, 2017 Updated May 16, 2017
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/monuments_legal_challenges.html ]no comments; comments closed]


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EXCLUSIVE: Landrieu goes in-depth on monument removal, says political motivation played no role
Updated May 16, 2017
http://www.wdsu.com/article/exclusive-mayor-landrieu-goes-in-depth-on-monument-removal-says-political-motivation-played-no-role/9664259 [with embedded videos]


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In free societies, monuments to tyranny have no place

The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is prepared for removal in New Orleans on May 11.
May 17, 2017
Amid threats of violence and white-supremacist protests, the city of New Orleans has begun removing four Confederate monuments [ http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/torch-wielding-group-protests-confederate-statue-removal-47405488 ], among them statues of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, the supreme military and political leaders of the Southern rebellion against the United States.
The Confederate monuments are memorials to the vilest cause in American history. The South went to war for one reason above all [ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/ ]: to perpetuate the enslavement of black Americans. The dismantling of the statues is a long-overdue act of moral hygiene; it is appalling that they were ever erected in the first place. What other nation tolerates grand public memorials to its traitors?
Despite decades of blather about Southern “heritage,” the core message of the Confederate monuments — especially those erected after the collapse of Reconstruction — was never hard to decoct. They stood for bigotry and racial backlash, and for the willingness to take up arms in defense of human bondage. Naturally, Ku Klux Klan supporters like David Duke [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/06/the-battle-of-new-orleans-david-duke-expects-confederate-statue-defenders-to-mass-on-sunday/ ] are among those protesting the statues’ removal.
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/16/free-societies-monuments-tyranny-have-place/XQC1K2CLbg9wAxSxrgZD5N/story.html


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New Orleans begins takedown of 3rd Confederate-era monument
May 17, 2017
Piece by piece, New Orleans' landscape is changing as city workers take down massive works of bronze and stone that once seemed immoveable in a region where some still cling to a Confederate legacy.
The city announced late Tuesday that it had begun the process of removing a statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard — the third of four monuments city officials plan to take down. The news release came as police cordoned off the site and what appeared to be a large crane was moved into position.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/confederate-monument-supporters-gather-beauregard-statue-47449697 [with comments]


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