Message from @Hadrian
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Hard to believe it's a Friday
I've only been home for a week
Where is home?
Central Illinois
Cool
been away for long?
Its always nice to be back in your own bed, etc
Not long enough
I see
I was on vacation last weekend
Got to see that Nathan Bedford Forrest monument in Memphis just a few days before they took it down
That was unfortunate
I remembered you saying they couldn't take it down
yeah because of state law
so they sold the whole park to a shell corporation set up a month ago and run by one of the County Commissioners, for $1000
in secret
Is that even legal?
You can't sell private property can you?
I mean public
They broke a bunch of laws, including sunshine laws requiring public meetings for selling property,no Environmental Impact study was done, and Conflict of Interest laws because they sold it below market value to a company owned by one of the commissioners who voted for it
The state government will file suit and the courts will smack Memphis down, probably fines and punitive damages
They may or may not be able to invalidate the sale and put the statue back, I'm not a lawyer
The question is even will they
The funny thing about laws is that they don't enforce themselves
Call it blackpilled, but my guess is that nothing will get done
I hope im wrong on that
The state government is the one that made that law specifically to stop Memphis from taking the statue down
Then let's hope they don't cuck
Morality of the statue aside, state governments don't like the precedent set when cities overrule them
It's bad optics
My thought is that these people knew the laws were in place, and wouldn't have gone through unless they were fairly certain there wouldn't be punishment
Or they're willing to accept the punishment for the good optics
They've been battling the state on it for 2 years
I saw multiple lawyers being consulted by news orgs. All of them said it was illegal
Lmao
Do we have any sculptors in the movement?
Let's put a Heimstroll statue in it's place
^