Civil War Monuments

AJC 3/29/18, “Debate on Cobb Park with Rebel earthworks reopens old wounds” reports another Mableton Discovery Park, but it is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places as the “Johnson Line” and is identified as a battlefield, so the local hysterical society is debating with the Cobb snowflakes over changing the name.  They say it’s a tourist draw and don’t want to risk a name change. 

This is in the same category with the statue removers, who would also tear down the Washington Monument and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial.

The only group that has a stake in tourism are the merchants, who operate hotels, souvenir shops and restaurants and maybe they use the hysterical society as a front, but none of that is mentioned.

When we moved to Atlanta in 1983, I thought we would spend more time as a family visiting Civil War sites than we actually did. We did see a few and that was enough.

I have no dog in this fight.  I probably would have voted no on building any monuments and don’t believe that tourism is needed to be able to sell my house someday. I think the roads might be less congested without tourists, but I don’t think there are enough of them to make much difference.  But the government guys and the snowflakes apparently care about this stuff and they deserve each other.

I would have diverted tax funds from unnecessary projects like monuments to water, sewer and road projects. These are clearly tax funded responsibilities I would call “necessary”. Most other things politicians spend tax money on are “nice, but not necessary”.

So, if you snowflakes and government guys can agree on changing the names of things to be more politically correct, then have at it.  If you would rather not take a chance on reducing the blessed tourism then leave it alone.

These are the same snowflakes who wanted to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with Harriet Tubman.  But Andrew Jackson saved the US by winning the War of 1812 and Harriet Tubman didn’t.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader