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Fraternity brothers pose with guns in front of Emmett Till Memorial

Stevicus

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When I visited the JFK memorial in Dallas there were all sorts of vandalism, the worst I saw beside the graffiti was the human excrement that was purposely piled on the epitaph. I went there to pay by respect but left disgusted, I returned one week later because my trip was ending to see the memorial again and sure enough no one bothered to clean it up and there was even more excrement on the epitaph.

Disgusting. Is that a Federal monument or local? Someone should clean it up and try to prevent it from happening. Maybe surveillance cameras are a possible solution.
 

The Reverend Bob

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Disgusting. Is that a Federal monument or local? Someone should clean it up and try to prevent it from happening. Maybe surveillance cameras are a possible solution.
It is a local, state and federal monument located directly across the street from where JFK got shot. The monument is structured in such a way that to have visible camera would ruin the effect it suppose to invoke but now there are some cameras but Dallas wants to minimize the visibility of them so it doesn't distract from the art
 

Stevicus

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W

Well, old Pancho killed Americans in his invasion.

Yes, there seems to be some disagreement over whether the statue is appropriate.

I see vandalism out in the desert to old buildings, even graves .

Sickening

Some yahoos with nothing better to do with themselves out getting drunk on a Saturday night. That's their idea of "fun."
 

We Never Know

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Ole Miss frat brothers brought guns to an Emmett Till memorial. They’re not the first.



The article then went on to mention numerous incidents of the sign being stolen, vandalized, or shot at.



Such vandalism has occurred on signs commemorating the Emmett Till Memorial Highway, a 38-mile stretch of Route 49 in Mississippi, as well as on the sign in front of the store where Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman.



The article outlines other strategies they're trying to use to prevent and discourage further vandalism, although some are suggesting leaving the bullet-strewn sign up just the way it is.



They're talking about putting in a bulletproof sign and possibly surveillance equipment.

From what I read they were not breaking any laws. On the flip side if that memorial wouldn't have been erected, they couldn't have done that.

Funny how people want to tear down statues and memorials from the civil war because they claim they represent slavery and hatred but yet also want to erect others that show the same thing.
 

Dan From Smithville

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The publick stocks would be a mercy because with them you were humiliated for a short period of time, now with the internet, this **** will follow them around forever
The idea that people learn what it is to be in someone else's shoes comes to mind. But how to do that? I have no easy answer.

I am with you in sentiment if not in fact.
 

We Never Know

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The publick stocks would be a mercy because with them you were humiliated for a short period of time, now with the internet, this **** will follow them around forever

If they really cared, they wouldn't be there. It will also soon be forgotten because with everyone being offended by everything, that will be short lived as people move on to other things.
 

SugarOcean

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From what I read they were not breaking any laws. On the flip side if that memorial wouldn't have been erected, they couldn't have done that.

Funny how people want to tear down statues and memorials from the civil war because they claim they represent slavery and hatred but yet also want to erect others that show the same thing.
Tearing down civil war memorials is asinine. A people that think to erase their history have no respect for the sacrifices that carved it out.
If it wasn't for the civil war the morons that scream racism would still be slaves. The only reason civil war memorials are taken down is because city councils and others don't have the guts to defend what commemorates a people who defended liberty with their lives. Such people are cowards and a shame that writes that history for their namesake for all time.
 

Shad

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Just think of all that tuition money their parents wasted so these boys could party on a huge campus. And then pose for a picture that should embarrass even their dead ancestors.

Or taxpayer money given government loans which have no criteria other than "student"
 

Shad

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Tearing down civil war memorials is asinine. A people that think to erase their history have no respect for the sacrifices that carved it out.
If it wasn't for the civil war the morons that scream racism would still be slaves. The only reason civil war memorials are taken down is because city councils and others don't have the guts to defend what commemorates a people who defended liberty with their lives. Such people are cowards and a shame that writes that history for their namesake for all time.

Some statues and such were not memorials but about babble like the "Lost Cause" whitewashing the war and secession
 

Dan From Smithville

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Their rights would be preserved. The stocks would be the punishment.
Not if any random citizen decided to enact a punishment without benefit of due process and the rule of law. It does happen. Sometimes the result is even just. But it is not something we are just allowed to do according to the law. Besides, that would probably fall under cruel and unusual punishment. Though I have never understood what was wrong with unusual punishment.
 

Stevicus

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Though I have never understood what was wrong with unusual punishment.

Well, I think it's the idea that the punishment should fit the crime and be enforced consistently.

Like, say you have five people charged with jaywalking. Four of them are given fines, while one is sentenced to be doused in honey and hung up over an anthill. That would be a violation of the principle in question.
 
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