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Posted on Wednesday, April 19 @ 10:08:58 MST by editor
On April 17, 2017 Charlottesville leaders voted on Monday night how they
will remove the Robert E. Lee statue. City Council voted to sell the Lee
statue and remove it from a park by requesting bids from either museums,
education groups or non-profits, according to TV station WVIR. Despite the
vote, the city will not be able to sell the statue right away because the city
is currently in the middle of a lawsuit regarding the legal rights to
remove the statue. Charlottesville also voted to rename the park named
after Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. This act by the Charlottesville City Council violates a number of Virginia
Laws says the President of the Unalienable Rights Foundation [UARF], David M.
Lindsey. Lindsey says the principal law is found in Virginia Code Section
§ 15.2-1812. Memorials for war veterans; The point of law that Charlottesville leaders
. . . If such are erected, it shall be unlawful for the authorities of the
locality, or any other person or persons, to disturb or interfere with any
monuments or memorials so erected, or to prevent its citizens from taking proper
measures and exercising proper means for the protection, preservation and care
of same. For purposes of this section, "disturb or interfere with"
includes removal of, damaging or defacing monuments or memorials, or, in the
case of the War Between the States, the placement of Union markings or monuments
on previously designated Confederate memorials or the placement of Confederate
markings or monuments on previously designated Union memorials.
The full text of the law reads: A locality may, within the geographical limits of the locality, authorize
and permit the erection of monuments or memorials for any war or conflict, or
for any engagement of such war or conflict, to include the following monuments
or memorials: Algonquin (1622), French and Indian (1754-1763), Revolutionary
(1775-1783), War of 1812 (1812-1815), Mexican (1846-1848), Confederate or Union
monuments or memorials of the War Between the States (1861-1865),
Spanish-American (1898), World War I (1917-1918), World War II (1941-1945),
Korean (1950-1953), Vietnam (1965-1973), Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm
(1990-1991), Global War on Terrorism (2000-), Operation Enduring Freedom
(2001-), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-). If such are erected, it shall be
unlawful for the authorities of the locality, or any other person or persons, to
disturb or interfere with any monuments or memorials so erected, or to prevent
its citizens from taking proper measures and exercising proper means for the
protection, preservation and care of same. For purposes of this section,
"disturb or interfere with" includes removal of, damaging or defacing
monuments or memorials, or, in the case of the War Between the States, the
placement of Union markings or monuments on previously designated Confederate
memorials or the placement of Confederate markings or monuments on previously
designated Union memorials.
In response to this action by the city council UARF sent the following to Charlottesville
Mayor Mike Signer: Sir:
We are requesting you in your capacity of Mayor of
Charlottesville [a political subdivision of this Commonwealth and an agency as
defined in Virginia Code § 42.1-77 ("Agency" means all boards,
commissions, departments, divisions, institutions, authorities, or parts
thereof, of the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions and includes the
offices of constitutional officers.) , as the custodian [ "Custodian"
means the public official in charge of an office having public records. Virginia
Code § 42.1-77] of the records we seek to provide us with a copy of
Charlottesville’s policies and procedures for addressing the requirements of
Virginia law, to wit:
Title 15.2 Counties, Cities and
Chap. 18 Buildings, Monuments and
Lands Generally, §§ 15.2-1800 — 15.2-1814
Art. 3 Miscellaneous, §§
15.2-1812 — 15.2-1814