From the Virginia Flaggers:
Dr. Ann McLean and Patricia N. Saffran
President Trump created Executive Order 13933 on June 26, 2020, “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence”, with its Purpose, “The first duty of government is to ensure domestic tranquility and defend the life, property, and rights of its citizens.” He then summarizes the dramatic traumatic events and violence over five weeks starting at the end of May 2020 that led to Confederate and other monuments and statues being vandalized and torn down, writing, “Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies—such as Marxism—that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.” Trump’s order rewrites existing code which goes back much further such as to the Travel Act, section 1952 of title 18, United States Code, and subsequent acts, so protections have been on the books for quite some time. President Trump recently updated his protections for monuments with Executive Order 14189 of January 29, 2025, “Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday.” He’s also ordering a new sculpture park, the National Garden of American Heroes.
Oddly enough it was the US Congress who acted as fanatics, when they went against Trump’s original Executive Order, and later veto, by creating the Naming Commission on March 2, 2021 (dissolved October 1, 2022.) It was funded under the William M. Thornberry (Mac) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA 2021.) The Commission basically called Confederates traitors and tried to erase any traces of Confederate memorials including the naming of public buildings. When Congress authorized the Naming Commission, the public was in favor of keeping Confederate statues in place. In 2020, according to the HuffPost poll, 66% of the US public didn’t agree with Confederate statue removals in particular.
Black veterans, whose ancestors fought for the South in…
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