A circuit court judge has declared that
statues of Confederate generals in Charlottesville, Virginia cannot be
removed without permission from the state.
In
a nine-page ruling released last Thursday, Judge Richard E. Moore
asserted that the controversial statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J.
'Stonewall' Jackson - who fought against the abolition of slavery in the
Civil War - meet classification as 'memorials for war veterans' and, as
such, are protected by Virginia law.
Moore
stated: 'I find this conclusion inescapable. It does no good pretending
they are something other than what they actually are.'
The
Code of Virigina declares that it is 'unlawful for the local
authorities to disturb or interfere with any monuments or memorials'.
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