Confederate Flag, Lee Statue Time Capsule, Mississippi

DECEMBER 24, 2021

**  A voting rights activists  explains why she tore down  a Confederate flag.  (South Carolina Capitol building.  A black woman of course.)

**  Evidently, the time capsule that was found in the pedestal of the Lee statue in Sad R. was not the one they were looking for.  But, any time capsule is history in my books.)

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

**  Residents ask commissioners to remove Confederate  soldier tribute.

**  Lead box  under Richmond's Lee statue pedestal wasn't the famed 1887 time capsule, historian says.

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DECEMBER 26,2021

**  Mississippi's AG Lynn Fitch's family loves cruel Confederate general and  Klan wizard.  (Daily Beast.  I am so surprised this media source would say something like that.)

--Old Secesh

Of Flags, Fountains, Spray-Painting, Statues, Parades and Sad R.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

**  Confederate flag license plate spurs hostile workplace trial.  (Connecticut)

**  Group that donated Confederate  fountain in Helena wants it back.  (Montana.  Put there in 1916 and removed in 2017 (BGF)  (Before George Floyd) because of racial concerns.  UDC wants it back.

**  Virginia man who spray-painted Confederate monument at Arkansas' Capitol pleads guilty to misdemeanor.  You mean it is possible to arrest folks for desecrating something Confederate?  I didn't think that was possible.)

**  From Plato to Confederate statues:  Students study why  some iconic images are broken.  (DePauw University)

**  Remains of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill could be reinterred to Culpepper's  Fairview Cemetery.  (Right now they are still in Sad R.  believe me, the sooner we can get all vestiges of the Confederacy out of that town the better.)

**  Court says city can ban Confederate flag in veterans parade.  (Imagine our justice system saying something like that.)

--Old Secesh

You Want That Statue Removed. Pay for It Yourself. Memphis, Mouton, Louisiana, Charlottesville, Capitol and Ozarks

JULY 17, 2021

**  Black Memphis clergy back efforts to remove Confederate marker in Collierville town square. (Tennessee.  Imagine Blacks doing something like that.  I know, real hard to believe.  That is not racist a bit I imagine.)

**  Mouton statue to be moved as Confederate group backs down from legal battle.  (Louisiana)

**  Public reacts to removal plans of downtown Lafayette's  Confederate statue.  (Louisiana.  The Mouton statue again.  The UDC will move it after town pays $25,000.  At least that's fair as long as the move is no more than $25,000.  If it is more, then the town should pay more.  However, even a better idea is to have those who want it moved pay for it themselves, not the city.  Hey folks, put your money where your mouths are.)

**  Charlottesville extends deadline  for hose interested in the Confederate statues.  (Virginia.  As long as the city pays all expenses involved, or, even better, those who want them moved pay for it.)

**  Senate Democrats introduce House-passed bill removing Confederate statues from U.S. Capitol.  (Wow, Democrats doing something like that?  Of course, the way all the headlines about this up until now screamed, I thought this was already a done-deal.)

**  A giant Confederate flag went up in the Ozarks.  One woman answered with this billboard.  (Missouri)

Again, You Want It Removed, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.  --Old Secesh

Confederadication: UDC, Atlanta, Dallas, Artist, Beware Florida Racists and NAACP

APRIL 21, 2021

**  United Daughters of the Confederacy, Kennesaw  Chapter 241 observes Confederate Memorial Day.  (Georgia)

**  Atlanta City Council okays removal  of railroad statue  with Confederacy ties.  (Just because the man responsible for founding your company served in the Confederate Army in no way makes him a bad man.)

**  Dallas lawmaker files to remove Confederate monuments at Texas Capitol.  (A white man.)

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APRIL 22, 2021

**  Artist  Sonya Clark  weaves a corrective to the story of the Confederacy.

**  'Maliciously' taking down a Confederate monument in Florida is a second degree felony.  (This should also apply to anyone committing a hate crime of any sort.  Taking down a Confederate monument is a hate crime.)

**  Legal  settlement ensures protests are allowed around the Alamance Confederate statue.  (North Carolina.  NAACP racist group sued for this.  Protesters also allowed to swear at police.  Next thing you know, they'll be back in court seeking that destruction to the statue will result in awards and honors all around.)

--Old Secesh

Texas, Atlanta, Hammerin' Hank, Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky and georgia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

**  6  Confederate  memorials could be removed from Texas Capitol if state bill passes.

**  An Atlanta school named for Confederate   general will be renamed to honor Hank Aaron.  (I can go for that.)

**  Delay in plan to move Confederate monument in Shreveport.  (Louisiana)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

**   Editorial:  Pandering to the base:  Florida protects Confederate holidays, makes felons of  protesters.  (Orlando Sentinel.  Looks like they're joining ranks with the Post and Times.)

**  Group sues county over  Confederate statue.  (Owensboro, Ky.  UDC says they own the statue.)

**  Tallahassee man pledges  $10K to remove Confederate statue on Old Capitol grounds.  (Florida.  Hey, put your money where your mouth is.  He is to be commended.)

**  Judge dismisses Confederate monument lawsuit.  (Brunswick, Georgia.  SCV lawsuit.  Real big surprise that a court would find against the SCV like this.)

--Old Secesh

Going After All Things Confederate at Texas Capitol. Canada, Sculptures

MARCH 17, 2021

**  What's the plan to move the Confederate monument in Shreveport?  (Louisiana)

**  Bill by  Dallas State Rep. Anchia would remove Confederate  monuments from Texas Capitol.  (Of course, this is a Democrat thing.  Looks like he did his homework as he has quite an extensive list of stuff he wants gone from outside and inside:

Portrait of Albert Sydney Johnston

Cannons of south grounds

Confederate soldiers monument

Portrait of  Dick Dowling

Hood's Texas Brigade monument

Portrait of Jefferson Davis

Terry's Texas Rangers monument

**  Calgary police  investigating Confederate flag flying in Reader Rock Garden.  (Canada)

**  Lake museum that wanted statue statue of Confederate general may instead get scuplture of black educator.  (Florida)

--Old Secesh

The Second Civil War: Panels, Letters, Flags, Bills, Pedestals, Storage and a Cemetery

MARCH 16, 2021

**  A key panel has voted to remove a bust of Confederate  Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee Capitol.  (A Key Panel?  What is a key panel?  Is that where you keep your keys?  I have a key hook.)

**  Letter:  How can you fly a Confederate flag and call yourself a Patriot?   (Chuckle)

**  House committee  approves bill critics say  aims to keep Confederate monuments  on state Capitol grounds.  (West Virginia)

**  Fort Myers quoted in the range of $60,000 to remove Robert E. Lee pedestal.  (Florida.  That seems to be a tad high.  Real high.  Someone's looking to get rich.  Must be a mayor's bud.  Let the BLMers and their white minions at it.  They'll do it for free.  But messy, very, very messy.  Maybe a $10 donation to take a whack at it with a sledge hammer.)

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MARCH 17, 2021

**  Virginia Beach Confederate monument still in storage, committee didn't   support either proposal to move it.  (Virginia.)

**  $200,000 worth of damage  done to presidents, Confederate graves at Virginia Cemetery.  (Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.  More than 18,000 Confederate soldiers, generals and Jefferson Davis buried there.  No damage to president Monroe and Tyler graves.  No damage done to any clearly Confederate graves either.  Richmond police chief and mayor up in arms about it.  Which is kind of funny considering what they have allowed to happen to Confederate monuments in that city.)

--Old Secesh

Best FUs for Confederate Monuments-- Part 2

Okay, here's the list of things Blacks have done that please her:

1.  Bree Newsome climbing the flag pole at the South Carolina Capitol and taking down the Confederate flag.

2.  Kehinde Wiley's statue in Richmond.

3.  An anonymous hero  swiping flags from a graveyard full of traitors in Virginia.  (There is a special place in hell for people who desecrate a cemetery.)

4.  A couple  calmly firing a contractor  who pulled up to work in a truck fly the Confederate flag.

5.  Savana High School (California) got rid of their Johnny Reb mascot.

6.  Tyler Perry building his studio on Confederate land.

7.  Silent San statue at UNC pulled down.  (So sad.  Every student in the video should be expelled and the ones who pulled it down and then did their little celebratory dance on it should be arrested.)

8.  Black man snatching Confederate flag on live TV in Charleston, SC.

9.  Tennessee activists committing hate crime on Confederate monument.

Now, numbers 2, 4, 5 and 6 are not criminal offenses, but  the first three could be classified as hate crimes.  The rest of them are criminal activity and should be prosecuted.

So, someone apparently is saying that people should go out and be criminals.

And, when I see one of those giant Confederate flags flying alongside an interstate, I'm thinking that's a big FU to all those intending to bury the Confederacy.

I Don't Think This Gal Likes Us.  --Old Secesh

No More 'Hey Reb!' at UNLV, Who 'Attacked' Confederate Statue in Louisiana? Confederate Flags.

JANUARY 22, 2021

**  County commissioners vote to remove controversial Confederate monument, put it in storage.  (Gwinnett County, Georgia.  No big surprise, as I predicted the other day, about them voting to remove it.  Again, it should have been put to a vote by the people, not just politicians afraid of BLM coming to their homes.  What we need is some politicians with a backbone.  The monument was only controversial because Blacks did like it.)

**  UNLV drops  'Hey Reb!' mascot over perceived Confederate ties.  (University of Nevada Las Vegas. They will, however, keep the name Rebels.  Sorry guys, the word Rebel connotes Confederate more than your "Hey Reb!" guy.)

**  Confederate statue in Louisiana damaged, nose missing.  (Lafayette, Louisiana.  Statue of General Alfred Mouton.  Authorities not sure who did it, but I have a probably culprit in mind.  And, this is NOT vandalism, but a HATE CRIME.)

**  Is removing Confederate monuments, changing sports teams names just a distraction?

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JANUARY 23, 2021

**  Rocklin student  disciplines for displaying  Confederate flag at school sparks debate.  (Rocklin, California.  What happens if a student has a BLN flag?)

**  Confederate flag burned  in protest at West Virginia Capitol.

--Old Secesh

If a Black Person Is Against Everything Confederate, Could That Be Considered Racism? Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Confederate

JANUARY 20, 2021

**  What is Confederate Heroes Day  and why do Texans still celebrate it?

**  Gwinnett County  to vote today on removing Confederate  monument in Lawrenceville.  (Georgia.  Unfortunately it will be the county board of commissioners who vote on it which means they will vote to remove it.  These questions should always be up to the voters to decide, not a bunch of politicians.  You know how they are.)

**  Well, here is the answer to the above question.  Gwinnett County Board votes to remove Confederate monument to storage.  (Now, that is a huge surprise.)

**  Representative  working to remove Confederate monuments from Texas Capitol grounds. (Hispanic representative.)

**  Months after council vote, Confederate monument  removed outside old Plaquemine courthouse.  (Louisiana)

**  After a year of racial reckoning, black lawmakers  believe they can finally eliminate  Confederate Heroes Day in Texas.  (Is this racism?)

--Old Secesh

Still About Those Flags. North Carolina, Virginia, Fort Bragg, Jewish Heritage Museum and Washington, D.C.

JANUARY 9, 2021

**  Confederate  battle flag an unnerving sight in Capitol.  (New York Times)

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JANUARY 10, 2021

**  Confederate monument in Elizabeth City needs to go, but has no takers.  (Elizabeth City, North Carolina.  It has already been voted on to be removed.)

**  Confederate Battle flag in the Capitol: A 'jarring' first in US history.  (New York Times)

**  Letter:  Fort Bragg bigger  than Confederate name.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

**  Editorial:  Botetourt County faces an unusual debate over  its Confederate monument.  Here's why.  (Virginia)

**  AOC condemns Confederate flag raised outside Jewish Heritage Museum.  (New York City)

**  The Confederate flag made it deeper into Washington this week than during the US Civil War.

--Old Secesh

About That Maybe Confederate Arkansas State Flag. Building Fences for BLM Protection in Georgia.

OCTOBER 7, 2020

**  Panel discussion:  'A Confederate star:  Arkansas ' flag and the Lost Cause.  (Still upset about the Arkansas state flag being some sort of a Confederate flag.)

**  Commission about to consider  petition to remove Confederate general  (Tennessee.  Gen. A.P. Stewart.)

**  Decay of the colossal wreck:  Confederate statues as protected cultural property.

**  "Liberty Bell" is augmented reality project at the Battery through next year.  (Charleston, S.C.  It is meant as a put-down to the Confederacy and is by the Charleston Defenders monument, but is really an interesting object to see the next time you are there.)

**  After protests, Georgia will build a fence around Capitol.  (BLM has been "protesting" at the Capitol building for police reform and against the Confederate statue on the grounds.  You know that whenever BLM and their white minions are involved, there is always the chance of rioting, confrontation, looting and arson.  So, the state is building a rather large fence around the building for safety.

And people wonder why I don't like the BLMers.)  

Same problems whenever there is a judicial decision that they don't like.  Here we go again, rioting, looting and arson.  Like recently happened in Louisville and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.  You don't see the so-called rightist racist groups doing that.

So, Who Are the Bad Guys Here?  --Old Secesh

Lee, the Face of the "Lost Cause", Let the People Vote to Decide, A Beach Towel Makes the News

JULY 31, 2020


**  Confederate monuments:  Robert E. Lee, the general who became the face of 'Lost Cause' mythology.  (Hey, they lost fighting for the cause of having a new country, so, that was the "Lost Cause."  Since so may died on both sides, I wouldn't call it exactly mythology.)

**  Floyd County Confederate monument  referendum issue remains undecided.  (Virginia.  Trying to decide if removal put to a vote of the people.  This is the correct way of determining whether or not a statue stays.  Something that's not sad coming out of Virginia.  Wow!!)

**  Unsettling report of a Confederate flag towel at Lighthouse Beach.  (Evanston, Illinois.  Now they're going after beach towels.  What about the people on the beach wearing the equally offensive symbols of hate and racism of the BLM?  The woman who made a big deal about this left work on purpose to start a confrontation.)

**  As the South's Confederate monuments come down, where will they end up?   (Good question.)

**  VMI to alter longstanding  traditions tied to its Confederate history, but leave statues in place.

**  Protest s renew calls  to remove Confederate monuments  at Texas Capitol grounds.  (Democrats want them gone.)

**  Not every fight over Confederate monuments end with a statue coming down.

--Old Secesh

Will the Last Confederate Statue/Artifact in Virginia Please Turn Out the Light When It Goes? Va. Strikes Again

JULY 25, 2020


**  Confederate statues removed from Virginia Capitol in the dead of the night.  (Do you know who likes to operate in the "dead of the night?"  The sad governor's work again?)

**  Virginia evicts Confederate monuments from its state Capitol.    (Guess they weren't paying rent.)

**  Lee statue, Confederate busts removed from Old House Chamber of Virginia State Capitol.

Other Confederate artifacts removed (mostly busts I imagine):

Joseph E. Johnston
Fitzhugh Lee
Alexander H. Stevens

Thomas Bocock  (Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives for most of the war.)
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
James E. B. "Jeb" Stuart

Jefferson F. Davis
Matthew F. Maury

I hadn't heard of Thomas Bocock before.

I bet the Confederates would now deeply regret moving the country's capital to Richmond.  They might as well have moved it to Boston or Any Other Hotbed of Abolitionists.

Without a Doubt, Virginia Is Getting Real Good at Confederadication.  Will the Last Confederate Monument in Virginia Please Turn Out the Lights When It Goes?  --Old Secesh

Oh, Those Dems, Texas, Georgia and Mississippi

JULY 21, 2020


**  Overnight Defense:  House passes defense bill that Trump threatened to veto.  (And, who controls the U.S. House?  I still think those Democrats don't like us.)

**  Texas Democrats want Confederate memorials removed from Capitol.  (The Texas State Capitol.  Big surprise that Democrats would want something like that.  Their BLM strike arm will be happy.)

**  Gainesville City Council  votes to remove Confederate statue.  (Texas)

**  At a Georgia  graveyard, reflections of a divided nation.

**  Mississippi  flag group could meet  without gov's appointees.

--Old Secesh

Flags and Monuments, Trump

JULY 21, 2020


**  Analysis:  Confederate monuments undergo renewed scrutiny.  (Mississippi.  A growing number of state counties  are planning to move them.)

**  Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting  social tensions and inflaming historic traumas.  (Ireland, Brazil and Germany)

**  Historical ignorance and Confederate generals.

**  Letter renews calls for removal of Confederate monuments  at Texas State Capitol complex.

**  No, Trump didn't tweet this about the Confederate flag.  (A false social media account went out.)

--Old Secesh

Civil War II: Trump, Bases, Flags, Texas, Democrats and Michigan

JULY 21, 2020


**  Trump argues Confederate base names, battle flags should stay.

**  Committees call for removal of Confederate memorials  on Capitol grounds.  (Texas.  Seven on the grounds.)

**  'Time is overdue':  Group of Democrats call for removal of Confederate  monuments at Texas Capitol.  (There you go again.  Democrats.  Hopefully those of you who admire the Confederacy will remember this in the voting booth.  Democrats must be defeated.)

**  Grand Lege students  won't be allowed to display Confederate flag on vehicles, in school.  (Michigan.  Hopefully, this will also apply to anything BLM as well.)

**  Pensacola attorneys say there are no legal grounds to stop Confederate monument removal.  (Florida)

--Old Secesh

About Sad Richmond and Its Sad Mayor and Those Monuments-- Part 1

JULY 15, 2020

**  Opinion:  "Statues taken down should go to a museum"  but  will they be safe there and will any actually go there.

This is from a British site called Politicalite and makes some interesting points about Sad Richmond and its Sad Mayor.

Civil War experts fear that the removed or "toppled" Confederate statues will not be removed to a museum but will be melted down.

"As to already downed  statues in Richmond, Mayor Levar Stoney (a black man)  only paid lip service to preserving them.  He used 'emergency powers' to start removing them, but he hasn't  disclosed where they are going.  He had previously announced  a new city ordinance giving him the power to do whatever he wants  with local statues."

As we now know, several of the monuments are now at Richmond's water treatment plant.  As far as we know, Mayor Stoney has not ordered then placed in the water to be treated.  All of them had damage and all sorts of profanity and graffiti all over them, compliments of the mayor and his BLM friends and their white minions.  The Lee statue still stands, but is so covered with graffiti and obscenity, it is an eyesore.  I tried putting a picture of what it now looks like in this blog, but had to take it down as it was just too sad.  Like I said, Sad Richmond, Sad Mayor.

More in the Next Post.  That Levar, Mighty Mayor Guy.  --Old Secesh

Statues, Schools, Busts, Pentagon and Trump

JULY 14, 2020


**  Letter to the Editor: By joining the Confederacy, Maury supported slavery.

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JULY 15, 2020

** Norfolk School Board to hold meeting about school names with Confederate ties.  (And guess what they will decode?)

**  35 businesses want Confederate bust out of Tennessee Capitol.  (Nathan Bedford Forrest)

**  Pentagon set to unveil policy aimed at banning public display or racially or socially derisive symbols on military bases.

**  Trump defends Confederate flags as a Freedom of Speech issue:  I know people that like it 'And they're not thinking about slavery.'

--Old Secesh

When Will We Reach a Decision on Those Military Bases? Texas, Ohio, Kentucky

Remember, these are headlines from media sources, so, if you want to know more, type it in and see.

JULY 14, 2020


**  Rename Fort Hood to uncover our history.

**  Paulding County in the Civil War.  (Van Wert, Ohio.  Finally, some real Civil War history, not all this NAACP, BLN and SPLC stuff. Back before Charleston, this is what I used to find for headlines in the alerts.)

**  Facebook sounds off on  Army post name change.

**  House appropriations bill supports changing names of military bases, block border wall funding.

**  GOP  lawmakers complain about Davis statue removal process.  (Kentucky)

Again, I Expect the Base Names To Be Changed.  --Old Secesh