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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 169: Check Your (Attorney-Client) Privilege
HaRRicH 04/18/18 1:43:32 PM #182:	4/18/2018 NPR - Tennessee Strips $250,000 From Memphis As Payback For Removing Confederate Statues "This amendment and the explanation, it is hateful, it is unkind, it is un- Christian-like and it is unfair, OK?" she said. "Memphis is a city in this state, and I am sick of people in this House acting like it is not." State lawmakers have been debating all session how to get back at Memphis for removing the statues last December. Many were angered that Memphis officials circumvented a state law designed to protect Confederate memorials, by selling the parks the statues were in to a nonprofit. That organization then took down the monuments, which remain in safekeeping while the courts sort out what to do with them. Rep. Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, and other Republicans defended the decision to withhold funding from the bicentennial celebrations, saying there had to be consequences for flouting the will of the state legislature. "I think the city of Memphis, like any other city in the nation, needs to if not obey the law, at least obey the spirit of the law," he said. "The law was very clear, and they got smart lawyers to figure out how to wiggle around the law." Republican Rep. Sabi Kumar of Springfield said revoking the funding was not about Christianity. "This is politics. What was done in Memphis, in removing the monuments, was basically a sneaky thing to do." Democrat Bo Mitchell warned of "bad consequences" not just in Memphis or Tennessee but nationwide. "Because what you're doing here today is the bad actions of someone who brought arms against their nation and fought against our country, committed treason, then was a proven war criminal, and was slave trader," he said, referring to Forrest, "you're going to choose to honor that person here on this floor today and hold it against a city." https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603525897/tennessee-strips-250-000-from-memphis-as-payback-for-removing-confederate-statue Man, people are jerks. Dude's the KKK-founder and it's his statue in a majority-black city...yet these guys are gonna call Memphis sneaky and take their money from them over the issue. Get that outta here -- ugly move. --- Nominate METAL MAN for 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png <cite>HaRRicH posted [p:899880287] in Politics C... [t:76523324]...</cite> <quote>4/18/2018 NPR - Tennessee Strips $250,000 From Memphis As Payback For Removing Confederate Statues "This amendment and the explanation, it is hateful, it is unkind, it is un- Christian-like and it is unfair, OK?" she said. "Memphis is a city in this state, and I am sick of people in this House acting like it is not." State lawmakers have been debating all session how to get back at Memphis for removing the statues last December. Many were angered that Memphis officials circumvented a state law designed to protect Confederate memorials, by selling the parks the statues were in to a nonprofit. That organization then took down the monuments, which remain in safekeeping while the courts sort out what to do with them. Rep. Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, and other Republicans defended the decision to withhold funding from the bicentennial celebrations, saying there had to be consequences for flouting the will of the state legislature. "I think the city of Memphis, like any other city in the nation, needs to if not obey the law, at least obey the spirit of the law," he said. "The law was very clear, and they got smart lawyers to figure out how to wiggle around the law." Republican Rep. Sabi Kumar of Springfield said revoking the funding was not about Christianity. "This is politics. What was done in Memphis, in removing the monuments, was basically a sneaky thing to do." Democrat Bo Mitchell warned of "bad consequences" not just in Memphis or Tennessee but nationwide. "Because what you're doing here today is the bad actions of someone who brought arms against their nation and fought against our country, committed treason, then was a proven war criminal, and was slave trader," he said, referring to Forrest, "you're going to choose to honor that person here on this floor today and hold it against a city." https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603525897/tennessee-strips-250-000-from-memphis-as-payback-for-removing-confederate-statue Man, people are jerks. Dude's the KKK-founder and it's his statue in a majority-black city...yet these guys are gonna call Memphis sneaky and take their money from them over the issue. Get that outta here -- ugly move. --- Nominate METAL MAN for 20XX! http://i.imgur.com/Dr4NAeq.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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