AUSTIN — The Sons of Confederate Veterans group is suing the University of Texas at Austin for the second time in three years over the removal of statues from the flagship campus’ main mall.
The group’s Texas chapter argues that UT-Austin President Greg Fenves broke the law when he ordered the removal of four statues late Sunday night. Three of the statues depicted Confederate military and political leaders, and one depicted a former governor who was also the son of a Confederate veteran.
The Sons have teamed up with a descendant of George Littlefield, the former UT regent and Confederate veteran who paid for the statues to be erected before his death in 1920.
The group argues that the university is breaking the agreement it made with Littlefield, who created a bequest to pay for the commission and erection of those statues and several others on campus. The value of the monuments totaled $250,000 when they were erected nearly 100 years ago, the lawsuit claims, and they could be worth $500,000 each (or up to $3 million as a group) now.
The lawsuit also alleges that Fenves violated the plaintiffs’ free speech rights by removing the statues without public discussion. Further, the group contends that he broke state law that gives state lawmakers and historical experts decision-making power to alter monuments to Texas veterans and that he overstepped authority that lies with the UT board of regents.
The group is asking the university to remove protective wrap placed around the statues’ bases, obscuring the names and details of the men depicted there, and to halt any plans to take down a fountain at the campus mall’s south end that was also paid for by Littlefield.
Source Dallas News.
tony sacco says
communism is on the march by the radicals of this country, first all statures next all religion then people that disagree with them next the replacement of our constitituation and finally a new cultural revolution similar to the Chinese doctrine. Kiss Western European culture goodbye, the new Government will control our lives from birth to death. you are starting to see it now on T/V the riots
in parts of the United States, Carl Marx is alive, the media is behind him, only one person standing in their way, President Trump, and he will be gone in a few years. North Korera, Iran and Pakistan will tear the world apart.
My prediction folks, just my prediction, but some thing to think about.
Tony Sacco
Stuart Bell says
Sounds like the world could use a few more rednecks. If it were not for predominately white males(American and Russian) we would have lost WWII. The coolies and krauts would have gladly taken us over. But wait a minute, the traits that allowed us to win that war have been discouraged and bred out of modern men. The demasculinized men, today, could not win that war. Sorry, if we continue down this Liberal Road we will be defeated…..It is already being considered.
Paulie Planter says
Ladies and Gentlemen, Read about the Battle of Athens TN in 1946… We might need to have another moment like that to put an end to some of the crap our elected representatives are giving us… Please ask yourself why does congress get to trade on insider information and average citizens can not??? Washington is a cesspool of trash and the trash needs to be burned…
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Susan Rice and her lies as well as unmasking!!! Has she testified in front of Congress??? Hell, everyone knows that congress is a waste of time trying to investigate anything… Trey Gowdy proved that…
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Eric Holder and his racial divide – – purposefully failing to prosecute New Black Panther members for voter intimidation (2008) and selling guns to mexican drug cartels.
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Hillary and her email folly, Russia sale of 20% of our uranium, pay for play, treasonous use of an email server…
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into former FBI director Comey and his ineptness in dismissing laws that were broken by Hillary and he dismissed…
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Loretta Lynch and her meeting with Billy Clinton
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Lois Lerner and her use of the IRS as a weapon against conservative groups.
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Hillary’s campaign manager Podesta and his ties to
Russia… Not to mention his brother’s ties.
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Hussein O and his systematically changing the law to fit his time and political realities of Hussein O Care…
I am still waiting on AG Sessions to hire a special counsel to look into Robert Mueller and James Comey’s relationship as it pertains to this investigation and their biases as well as the central theme to his investigation in the first place.
How about Debbie wasaman schnitz and her affiliation with the Pakistani IT Brothers and the new revelations there???
NOT TO MENTION – – I am still waiting on AG Sessions to limit Robert Mueller’s authority to investigate the president to only matters as they relate to the documentation related to the FBI’s reasoning for investigating the Trump campaign in the first place; the russia-blackmail-dossier-on-trump… And that would be it!!!
Why is it that Sessions couldn’t wait to recuse himself to appease SENATE Democrats but hasn’t yet looked into a single member of the previous administration and their abuse of power… Democrats get everything they want and I feel President Trump is just a tad bit tired of that and will be pushing and prodding his secretaries to get the results he
wants…
We in America better see some movement toward justice and
parity or there could be large marches in Washington… Civil War, I think it already started… Its coming if the truth isn’t told and told soon… Hodkinson was the opening salvo and Steve Scalise the first casualty… What the Democrats have to worry about is who killed vince foster and Seth Rich. Who pays ANTIFA to show up – – Soros??
Paul Plante says
Stuart bell, dude, any theories for that, why that would be happening, the flower of American manhood petering out as it is?
There are, of course, probably as many theories about it as there are schools discussing and debating it, as you would well know if anyone in here would.
Some say it is genetic, that there is something fouled up with some male chromosome that is causing American men to shrivel right down into pretty much nothing, but as soon as that theory is out on the table, along comes the counter-argument that says, yeah, if that is so, how come at the same time there are so many hulking American men out there, which of course is immediately attributed to steroids, and on and on that argument goes, back and forth with not much sense being made by either side now as they remain deadlocked on the question.
Others are putting it down to steroid abuse after reading the VOX.com “Trump is declaring a national emergency over the opioid epidemic” by German Lopez, 8/10/2017, wherein was stated:
President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he will declare a national emergency over the opioid epidemic.
“It’s a national emergency.”
“We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,” Trump told reporters.
“It is a serious problem, the likes of which we’ve never had.”
“You know, when I was growing up, they had the LSD, and they had certain generations of drugs.”
“There’s never been anything like what’s happened to this country over the last four or five years.”
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According to that article, Stuart Bell, in 2016 alone, drug overdoses likely killed more Americans in one year than the entire Vietnam War, and in 2015, drug overdoses topped annual deaths from car crashes, gun violence, and even HIV/AIDS during that epidemic’s peak in 1995.
“With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks,” the commission’s report argues.
“After September 11th, our President and our nation banded together to use every tool at our disposal to prevent any further American deaths.”
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As you can probably figure, Stuart Bell, I am on the other side of that argument – I don’t think it was all the drugs that made the people weak; I think, and yes, this is way beyond the pale when it comes to being politically correct, but who over 70 gives a rat’s *** about what offends some wet-behind-the-ears 20 year old, or even a 50-year old for that matter, I think the people were weak before they took the drugs, and in my estimation, applying social science principles here, that weakness causing these drug problems has to be attributed to first the people on drugs themselves, then their parents, then their school district and then their community in that order, and oh., yeah, the medical trade in America which has made real big buck$ off these drugs, as that article explained:
The opioid epidemic began when doctors prescribed an enormous amount of opioid painkillers, causing the drugs to proliferate across the country.
The current drug crisis began in part as doctors sought to tackle another major medical problem: 100 million US adults suffer from chronic pain.
Despite the lack of evidence for opioids’ effectiveness in treating chronic pain, doctors often responded with opioids.
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100 million US adults suffering from chronic pain needing opioid treatment is one-third of the U.S. population, Stuart Bell, or 1 person out of every three.
Which reminds me of a song by “THE REAL BOSS” in America, Bruce Springsteen, to wit:
I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about was
Glory days, well, they’ll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
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Life ends at 18, Stuart Bell, when you get out of high school, and then the long, hard decline begins, as “THE BOSS” is telling us there – glory days, or living in the past in a whiskey haze as the present goes speeding by, which makes me wonder if that star pitcher dude was on steroids in high school to bulk him up like a major league star and is now hooked on opioids because he blew out his rotator cuff throwing one too many fastballs, which is why the dude is hanging out in a bar today, talking about yesterday, instead of being out working for a living like regular people do.
And that takes me to my theory, Stuart Bell, which is shared by the political philosopher U. Utah Phillips, by the way: country and western music is the cause of all this weakness you observe in American men today, and I take that back to Billy Ray Cyrus, who looked like a grown-up man that people actually mistook for a real cowboy because he had big arm muscles and wore cowboy boots and dungarees, wailing and crying like a spoiled five-year old about his “achy-breaky heart,” which is baby talk.
Now tell me, Stuart Bell, what real man in America goes around, say to the bar in local VFW or American Legion hall where veterans hang out, and starts weeping and wailing to his Marine or airborne buddies about his “achy-breaky heart?”
And yet, Stuart Bell, the dude was huge and had a country-western hit on his hands because his message resonated with so many men in America who thought it cool to engage in baby talk because country-western idol Billy Ray Cyrus was doing it.
And do you listen to country-western music, Stuart Bell?
If so, you would know what I am on about, because over 90% of it seems to be a lot of whining and crying and caterwauling about how their girlfriend left them or didn’t want them, or thought they were inadequate and nothing but a worthless drunk, and these are the societal messengers that America listens to today, so who can be surprised by the fact that American men are now so weak.
Not me, anyway.