Fighting to Restore What County Stole in the Dead of Night (GA)
Gwinnett Confederate monument case heads to Georgia Supreme Court
A growing trend across Amerika. These petty tyrants not only consider themselves immune from state law, they are so proud of their deeds they conceal them in the dead of night - DD
The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the organization’s Lawrenceville chapter and two Gwinnett County men have appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court their lawsuit over the county’s removal of the Confederate monument from the square in downtown Lawrenceville.
The filing came days after the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled Gwinnett County has sovereign immunity against lawsuits over the monument’s removal.
Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans argued in their appeal that the county is not immune from lawsuits under the state law that protects Confederate monuments.
“Naturally, we are disappointed that the Court of Appeals has made a decision which we think is contrary to law and should be overturned by the Supreme Court,” said Martin O’Toole, the spokesperson for the Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Georgia Supreme Court will decide whether or not to take up the case.
The monument was installed in 1993. It consists of granite slabs protruding from a base, similar to a tall gravestone, with carvings of a Confederate flag, a Confederate soldier, the dates 1861-1865, a quote from Winston Churchill and the words “Lest we forget.”
The Lawrenceville chapter of the Confederate descendants’ group raised the money and hired the contractors for the monument’s construction. The club subsequently paid for repairs.
The County Commission removed the monument in…
To any and all politicians in the south that do this I would like to say that, you are all to the man , woman ,( or thing/ it)an S.OB. And a liar, and you piss your pants because of a cowardly soul.