FL: Monument protection bill filed in House, Senate

[RandySF]

Legislation in the House and the Senate would protect monuments of war from not just defacement and removal, but attempts to offer historical context.

The “Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act” (HB 1607) was filed in the House by Rep. Dean Black, a Jacksonville Republican. It is the House companion to SB 1096, filed last month by Sen. Jonathan Martin, a Republican from Fort Myers.

The legislation would seemingly stifle controversies about confederate monuments, such as the one in Jacksonville, that have percolated for years.

The bill would encompass historical depictions represented in the form of a “plaque, statue, marker, flag, banner, cenotaph, religious symbol, painting, seal, tombstone, structure name, or display constructed and located with the intent of being permanently displayed or perpetually maintained,” honoring military or public service, “past or present,” with no exceptions contemplated.

Monuments could not be removed, and plaques and signs attempting to put those constructions in historical context would only be permissible if Secretary of State Cord Byrd signs off. Those who remove or damage monuments would pay treble the cost to restore and move them back, with “punitive damages” also possible.



https://floridapolitics.com/archives/593263-monument-protection-bill-filed-in-house-senate/

[Botany]

1. We have to honor the dumb mother fuckers who ...

... fought so something like 2 to 300 hundred families could keep human beings as slaves and in doing so tried to end the United States as a nation.

FUCK THAT SHIT

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Well, since traitors to the Union weren't a part of the US military, I'd rule it

doesn't apply to confederate stuff.

[Igel]

4. And you'd be overruled by those that read the actual language of the statute.

Were it to become statute, that is.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1096/BillText/Filed/HTML

You can read the text for itself or rely on how somebody else spins it. At no point is the military service "US military", but it is military service on (presumably) current US territory.

[Chainfire]

3. Most of the Confederate memorials in my part of the state are already gone.

Oh, believe me, I could create some new "memorials" that the governor would send the National Guard to remove. The famous banner of DeSatan having sex with a goat comes to mind.