Quote:MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Attorney General's Office sued the city of Birmingham on Wednesday for erecting plywood around a monument to Confederate sailors and soldiers.

The city began placing the wood around the monument Tuesday evening, days after a white supremacist rally at a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., led to violence.

In a statement Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said the action violated a law passed by the Alabama Legislature this year aimed at preserving historic structures.

"My office has determined that by affixing tarps and placing plywood around the Linn Park Memorial such that it is hidden from view, the defendants have 'altered' or 'otherwise disturbed' the memorial in violation of the letter and spirit of the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act," Marshall said in a statement.

The monument law, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Gerald Allen, passed the Legislature earlier this year. The legislation — first filed after Birmingham officials moved to remove the Linn Park monument in 2015 — prohibits the removal of alteration of historic monuments and “architecturally significant buildings” 40 years and older and requires cities to petition a newly created state committee to remove or alter those between 20 and 40 years old.

The law passed the Republican-dominated Legislature easily. Supporters said it was intended to preserve portions of state history, whether honorable or shameful.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...574781001/

I love it.

Yea, its all about local control, unless Democrats win elections.

This was Gov. Ivey's second bill signed when she took office. A disenfranchisment of Black elected officials. The first was Gay bashing. Now they're going to send Roy Moore to the Senate to show the world exactly what kind of people the majority of Alabama voters are.

This probably has as much to do with the fact that the mayor is in the middle of a tough re-election campaign than it does with anything else.

only took three posts for tom to make this thread into a gay thread....

i was picturing a scared old man carrying around a monument unsure where to put it. so they put wood up. that's more like fortressing it

Cons love big gov't now. Classic.

(08-17-2017 09:05 AM)Lush Wrote:  i was picturing a scared old man carrying around a monument unsure where to put it. so they put wood up. that's more like fortressing it

No, the Mayor is just grandstanding to hopefully take some heat off himself.

He doesn't have a leg to stand on against the law.

(08-17-2017 09:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cons love big gov't now. Classic.

You can't actually be that obtuse.

Most conservatives favor state, as opposed to federal, control. Alabama is a state and it is exercising control.

(08-17-2017 09:15 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:05 AM)Lush Wrote:  i was picturing a scared old man carrying around a monument unsure where to put it. so they put wood up. that's more like fortressing it

No, the Mayor is just grandstanding to hopefully take some heat off himself.

He doesn't have a leg to stand on against the law.

This. He's an idiot. Barely worth discussion

Open and shut case. There is a hurricane coming and the barrier was put up to protect the statue from the storm and tornadoes.

(08-17-2017 09:24 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  Open and shut case. There is a hurricane coming and the barrier was put up to protect the statue from the storm and tornadoes.

Sounds like a lie bham would tell. Take the money to move it out of all the tax money the city pisses away on UAB football. Two problems solved.

(08-17-2017 09:28 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:24 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  Open and shut case. There is a hurricane coming and the barrier was put up to protect the statue from the storm and tornadoes.

Sounds like a lie bham would tell. Take the money to move it out of all the tax money the city pisses away on UAB football. Two problems solved.

...now we have a real plan.

(08-17-2017 09:28 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:24 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  Open and shut case. There is a hurricane coming and the barrier was put up to protect the statue from the storm and tornadoes.

Sounds like a lie bham would tell. Take the money to move it out of all the tax money the city pisses away on UAB football. Two problems solved.

You come to a game so coach Clark can show you what real football looks like. Not that weak AAC football ya'll play at Memphis.

(08-17-2017 09:16 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cons love big gov't now. Classic.

You can't actually be that obtuse.

Most conservatives favor state, as opposed to federal, control. Alabama is a state and it is exercising control.

nailed it!

(08-17-2017 09:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cons love big gov't now. Classic.

"Big" govt? It's called "powers not given to the federal govt"... You know that 10th amendment thing.

(08-17-2017 09:16 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cons love big gov't now. Classic.

You can't actually be that obtuse.

Most conservatives favor state, as opposed to federal, control. Alabama is a state and it is exercising control.

Big state government (and DJT) telling Birmingham what it should do.

(08-17-2017 09:32 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:28 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:24 AM)cb4029 Wrote:  Open and shut case. There is a hurricane coming and the barrier was put up to protect the statue from the storm and tornadoes.

Sounds like a lie bham would tell. Take the money to move it out of all the tax money the city pisses away on UAB football. Two problems solved.

:yawn:
You come to a game so coach Clark can show you what real football looks like. Not that weak AAC football ya'll play at Memphis.

So anyway, unnecessary pissing contest aside, Bell is probably wrong here and he knows it. The legality of the act is probably secondary to winning re-election, though.

Bell is catching a lot of grief for being too open to the white money pouring into downtown. This a a way for him to try and counter that.

(08-17-2017 09:50 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:16 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(08-17-2017 09:14 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Cons love big gov't now. Classic.

You can't actually be that obtuse.

Most conservatives favor state, as opposed to federal, control. Alabama is a state and it is exercising control.

Big state government (and DJT) telling Birmingham what it should do.

I think "[b]ig state government" is an oxymoron.

(08-17-2017 09:04 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  only took three posts for tom to make this thread into a gay thread....

right on cue