Questions about the Naming Commission
Does Congress REALLY agree with its recommendations and conclusions?
Another Great Piece by Mr. Don Smith over at Confederate Honor - DD
These questions address issues with the judgments and recommendations of the Naming Commission, as laid out in the Preface to its Final Report. Feel free to ask them to your own Congressman or Senator, especially if they were in Congress during 2021 and 2022, when the commission did its research and wrote its conclusions:
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1. What mechanism did Congress use to review the recommendations of the Naming Commission, before they were implemented?
2. Did the full Congress debate and vote on the recommendations themselves? (I.e,, not as part of a larger package of legislation)
3. In the Preface to its Final Report, the Naming Commission said the following: In passing the 2021 William M. “Mac” Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act, the United States Congress determined that Confederates and the Confederacy no longer warrant commemoration through Department of Defense assets.
a. Is that actually what Congress determined? There is no language in the FY 2021 NDAA that actually says that the Congress determined that Confederates and the Confederacy no longer warrant commemoration through DOD assets. (Certainly the Naming Commission didn’t just assume that this was what Congress meant).
b. What level of respect does Congress feel that…
Drudge, once again, thanks for linking my work.
I put these questions together to ask to Members of Congress. Specifically, to force them to explain the actions of the Naming Commission and Congress, and to take personal positions, one way or another, on what the commission concluded and recommended.
I recommend you look at the full Naming Commission Final Report here: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2285378/
Actually, all you need to do is read the Preface and Executive Summary, which is at the beginning of the report. That's only a few pages.
THEN, read the commission's biography of Robert E. Lee, in the "Fort Lee" section of the report. That's only a few paragraphs.
That should be enough.
I am confident that your members of Congress will NOT be willing to answer these questions. ESPECIALLY on the record. They will dodge and obfuscate, because they realize that the process they used was other-than-honorable.