re: Judge rules against opponents of removing Confederate memorials ...

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They certainly can with appropriate venues. Public places are not appropriate.

Lexington is planning to move all of our Confederate monuments to a museum. They'll make an interesting field trip for kids studying Kentucky and American history.

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I don't necessarily disagree with this.

I think I was fairly clear ... the problem I have is with it being removed and melted down for scrap. The problem I have is with the double-standard, the hypocrisy.

If we're talking strictly about winners and losers here then that's never really been the American way ... at least not in wars fought in other countries.

We allowed the Japanese to keep their emperor after WWII, did we not?

At the same time, I'll ask this question again ... name the only time in American history where we allowed a general to rape, pillage and burn during a campaign ... and then honored him for it.

Or would you prefer I name the times Americans have been court marshaled for doing anything even remotely similar in an effort to prove my point about the hypocrisy and the double standard.

Thus my other contention in this thread ... fine, remove the Confederate memorials if you must, but do not vandalize them in the process and do not disrespect them.

And remove the Union memorials ... remove the statue of Sherman in Central Park ... or either move Wall Street and our major Federally funded banks outta NYC.