Alabama Attorney General sues Birmingham for hiding Confederate monument

[Zorro]

Source: USA Today

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.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/16/alabama-attorney-general-sues-birmingham-hiding-confederate-monument/574781001/

[Phoenix61]

1. Dang! He's making Sessions proud nt

[rickford66]

2. Can't they claim they're protecting it?

[cstanleytech]

3. Well if their goal is to protect it wouldnt it be better protected if they erected a 20 foot tall

steel reinforced cement wall? Ya know, purely to prevent anyone from desecrating it.

[liquid diamond]

8. Good idea

[Demtexan]

4. Just take a picture of it.

Then put the picture on all 4 sides.

It willnot be hidden then.

[ck4829]

5. Alabama's dealing with a dramatic increase in number of cases of whooping cough

But that's stupid, making sure the feelings of Nazis are safe from those mean ol' liberals is clearly way more important.

[SergeStorms]

6. Hey, it's Alabama.

What do people expect, hands across America?

Now, I KNOW not everyone in Alabama is a racist redneck, but they have more than their share, and those in the RepubliKLAN party - the party of racists, xenophobes, homophobes, hydrophobes, and every other phobe there is - are responsible for stupid shit like this.

We might be heading toward an encore presentation of the "Civil" War, and NOT the Ken Burns series.

[Equinox Moon]

7. Isn't this the State that imprisoned Governor Don Siegleman?

They are radical non-Americans.

[dsc]

9. No the feds imprisoned him

not the state.

[knightmaar]

10. Stage 2

Take down the plywood

Point another "monument" next to it. Just a big arrow with the words "Racist Traitor Slaveowner" on it.

I can come up with these all day.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Drop 60 ingots of bronze on the pedestal. "See, the statue is not hidden."

[NYC Liberal]

12. Spirit of the law

Aren’t right wingers big on “strict constructionism”? If it’s not written specifically in black and white, it’s not the law. That’s why the constitution has no right to privacy according to them.

[csziggy]

13. But didn't Dolt45 say it is up to the cities to decide what monuments can stay?

I swear I heard him say that!

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Here's the thing about Ala. law no one understands...

cities and counties have to have their laws approved at the STATE level.
there is very little autonomy below the state level.
So if there is a state law against removing a monument, the state has to actually change the law.
The Legislature is not known for speedy decisions on most things.