Dec. 23, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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But the show is not going to be as upbeat and festive as was originally planned.
We were going to talk with Jared Taylor, Michael Hill, and Brad Griffin about being purged from Twitter.
I called Michael and Brad, and we postponed their appearances tonight.
Jared will still be on tonight, although in a more limited capacity.
And the reason for that is this happened.
There are two less Confederate monuments on display today in Memphis.
The Nathan Bedford Forest and Jefferson Davis statues will no longer stand in our city.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says the statues have now been removed after they and the land they were on sold to a private group.
Okay, now what we're going to do is, folks, this is a very passionate, very emotionally charged issue for us.
You will remember that the political cesspool radio program cut its teeth in our efforts to defend these parks, these monuments, and indeed Nathan Bedford Forrest's grave right here in Memphis, which is where we broadcast in our flagship station, AM 1600, is.
Back in 2005, we were responsible for forcing Al Sharpton to cancel a march.
We protected the monuments.
Again, in 2015, we worked with a couple of other groups to turn out 500 people at Nathan Bedford Forest Park, all with Confederate flags, celebrating one of the greatest Americans, certainly one of the greatest Southern heroes that ever existed, and really the greatest military specimen that this continent, this country has ever produced.
But despite our best efforts, the devil never sleeps and is never discouraged.
And that's what has happened in Memphis.
On Wednesday evening, all television programming in Memphis was canceled for an on-site live telecast of them removing the statue of Jefferson Davis from the former Confederate park and Nathan Bedford Forrest from the former Forest Park in Memphis.
Now, hold on right there, Keith, because we are going to give a very comprehensive accounting of what happened.
So many questions, so many emails from coming in.
My phone melted on Wednesday night with people calling, texting.
My voicemail doesn't even tell me how many voicemails I have.
It just has a plus sign.
It doesn't even tell you the number.
It just says plus.
I guess that means too many.
Okay.
We're going to give this to you in a chronological fashion tonight.
We're going to answer every question.
We're going to leave no stone unturned.
Gene Andrews is a late addition to the program tonight.
He is the caretaker of the Nathaniel and curator of the Nathan Bedford Forest Childhood Home in Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
He's also a former commander for the Sons of Confederate Veterans here in Tennessee.
He's going to be on the second hour.
Former Marine.
Former Marine, and he has spoken at both of our anniversary conferences in 2014.
He's a Vietnam veteran.
And he's a veteran.
He's a warrior.
Okay, so Gene's going to come on in the second hour.
But first, we're going to break down for you exactly what happened.
And he's a God-fearing gentleman above all others, as are we.
Now, Keith, for the spirit of being thorough, let's go back to 1905.
What happened in 1905?
We're going to go from 1905 to 2005 all the way up to this week, and then we're going to answer a whole lot of questions.
Well, 1905, around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, what was happening in the South was what was called reconciliation.
Basically, both Southerners, former Confederates, and Northerners, former Unionists, decided to bury the hatchet and try to reconcile with one another.
You had great conventions and gatherings at Gettysburg and elsewhere in the United States.
And it also started a movement to honor the heroes of the Confederacy with statuary throughout the South.
Most small southern towns had a generic Confederate soldier called Old Joe on a pedestal in the middle of the most prominent public park in the little town, county seat or whatnot.
In Memphis, the Sons of Confederate, well, the Confederate veterans, they weren't the sons of Confederate veterans yet because these were basically in Memphis and they started raising money to have a larger-than-life representation mounted of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and they set aside a public park known as Forrest Park in which to locate it.
I know this because my great-grandfather, who was in Forrest Calvary, IES Alexander Independence Ellen Schuler, had a cobbler's shop, a shoe shop just down Exchange Street where you walked out his front door and you looked right at the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
And so that's part of my family history.
He was there when the statue was erected.
What was it, 1909?
It was 1905, I believe.
Let me read an article that was sent to us from Kim in Missouri.
She found an archive of every article that had ever been written about the Forrest Monument and Park and gravesite.
This comes from the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
It shows you how much things can change.
In 1901, this article was written.
This was four years before the monument was placed there.
Headline, The Forest Monument, Cornerstone Was Laid Yesterday Afternoon.
An eloquent oration covering the achievements and character of the great cavalryman delivered by his friend and chaplain, General D.C. Kelly.
With appropriate ceremonies, the cornerstone of the Forrest Monument was laid yesterday by Mary Forrest Bradley, the granddaughter of General N.B. Forrest.
The site of the statue is Forrest Park.
And the first step toward the given end has been successfully accomplished.
General Forrest will stand.
This is hard for me to read.
I read this earlier and choked up.
General Forrest will stand with his face to the north and his back to the south.
He will be mounted, which will inspire future generations with his indomitable courage and fortitude.
The ceremony was most impressive, and there was not one present who was not moved by the scene.
When Mrs. Bradley stepped forward to place the stone, she was greeted with prolonged cheer by several of the older and more enthusiastic veterans present.
That was 1905, 1901.
The monument was finished in 1905, and it remained there for 100 years until around 2005, people decided that it suddenly offended them.
112 years to be exact.
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By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground.
And out in California, the sunshine's falling down.
And maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in light.
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.
Christmas and Dixie.
Make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Dixie.
This is the South.
This is the Confederacy.
And for the majority of people who still live in the Confederate states, the blood of those ancestors who fought for a righteous cause still flows through those veins.
I know they do in mine and in Keith's and in Eddie's and in so many of you listening out there tonight.
And obviously an unfortunate event happened on Wednesday night, December the 20th, as Keith mentioned.
Now we gave you a little bit of the background of the history of the monument and where Forrest is much more than a monument.
It's also his gravesite.
This monument was effectively his headstone, the headstone of both General Forrest and his wife.
And all local television programming was preempted on Wednesday.
And you saw that this park, which is the size of a city block, police had surrounded it on all sides.
A crane was removing the statue of one of the South's greatest heroes.
Cultural genocide, white genocide, desecration of a grave, all at the same time, criminal activity.
Of course, no force on earth could have moved Nathan Bedford Forrest when he was alive.
America never produced a soldier more fierce or a general more brilliant.
He was and still remains a Southern hero.
He is my hero.
Nathan Bedford Forrest is my hero, and as long as I live, I will always honor the name, the memory, and the legacy of the great Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Well, I have relatives named Forrest after him.
In fact, it's very common in the South to encounter a male child named Forrest to this day.
Now, Keith, getting back to what happened.
Now, we mentioned 1905, that's when the monument was put in place.
For 100 years, there was no problem.
In 2013, the city of Memphis kept trying to move the monuments.
And the state of Tennessee, which has been quite strong on this issue, you think of conservative Republicans on a federal level, on a congressional level, and they're almost all cucks.
But in southern states like Tennessee, some people who climb as high as the state legislature are quite solid, particularly Republicans from rural areas in southern states like Tennessee.
And so in 2013, the state of Tennessee passed the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act.
And I'm reading now from Wikipedia, the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act is a state law in Tennessee first enacted in 2013.
It prohibits the removal, relocation, or renaming of a memorial that is or is located on public property.
Basically, this law was put into place specifically to stop Memphis from moving the Nathan Bedford Forest Monument.
It says you can't remove, well, as I just mentioned, a memorial that is located on public property.
And it was put into place effectively, in a way, to protect all monuments, but specifically to protect the Forest Monument in Memphis.
That's why Memphis never could move it before now.
They kept going to court.
They kept losing in court.
They kept losing at the state level of the state government.
The Tennessee Historical Commission would never give them permission to move it.
They lost on all fronts.
They just said, well, the law be damned.
Here's how we're going to do it.
And that mr. Wednesday on Wednesday.
How did it happen, Keith?
What they did was they, in violation of their own bylaws, the City Council of Memphis, sold Forest Park or the Forest Park.
And it commissioned Van Turner for a thousand dollars.
It was not to Van Turner directly.
He is the principal of a new corporation called Green Space Tennessee.
Which is a shell company.
It came into existence at the end of October, specifically, and it didn't acquire any other parks except for the two in Memphis that had Confederate monuments located on them.
Right.
The former Confederate park downtown on the bluff has a statue or had a statue of Jefferson Davis.
Davis Park.
And then Forest Park, which is a little bit further out, probably a mile or so from the River Bluff at the corner of Union Avenue and Manassas.
That in Manassas is named after the Battle of Manassas again.
You know, Confederate Heritage is throughout Memphis in all sorts of street names and park names and school names and everything else.
So let's get to the vote that took place on Wednesday night.
Okay, on Wednesday night, under cover of darkness, after the courts were closed, after getting an injunction would not be a possibility, the people in the Memphis Police Department, the Memphis Police Department was summoned to Liberty Bowl Stadium, and they were told that everybody was going to stay on duty.
People were not going to be able to rotate off of their shifts until further notice.
Then a large contingent of Memphis police officers surrounded the former Forest Park and a crane showed up and attached a rope, a big rope or a big sling to statue, equestrian statue.
And they were trying to move it, having difficulty.
They could not get one of the big crane companies in Memphis to touch it, but they've got a black ex-felon to be the guy that had a company with a crane and he was hired to do the dirty work.
So they lifted up that statue.
They also did the same thing with Jefferson Davis's view, and then spirited them off to some undisclosed destination.
We have since found out where that destiny is.
But they basically, the city attorney, a guy named Bruce McMullen, a black guy, said that they were where they would never be found again.
Taunt.
Yeah.
So let's talk about the laws that were broken here.
The Sunshine Law, grave desecration laws, the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, on and on and on.
You're talking about the fact that this conspiracy that was months in the planning, by the way, you don't pass a law, or rather sell public property for $1,000, a parcel that was worth millions of dollars in the downtown medical district, which is where Forest Park is.
You sell that property worth millions of dollars to this private guy that operates this shell company that came into being a few weeks ago for $1,000.
And he's undoubtedly going to resell it at a pretty penny because the University of Tennessee College of Medicine plans to build dormitories on the former forest.
All right, so what laws were broken in doing that that we believe were broken?
Well, the first thing you mentioned was the Sunshine Law.
They're not supposed to make any type of change like this without announcing the intention and agenda for doing this.
And a public auction being held.
Right.
Well, also, when you sell property, it has to come up before the city commission three times at three separate meetings before any sale can be validated to allow people to object or people that might want to bid on it to make bids.
We said government with third world representatives.
And this is Banana Republic, Third World.
This is the Memphis Taliban.
It's ISIS.
It's communism.
It's all of that.
Well, here's what it is.
No rule of law.
With a lawless mob like the Memphis City Council, which unfortunately had some Republicans on it too.
We'll touch on that issue later.
It's like the movie The Wild Bunch in 1969, a kind of retro spaghetti western in which the outlaws said, we don't need no stinking badges.
Well, they're not deterred by paper laws or paper constitutions.
The good old Memphis City Council will do as it darn well pleases and defy the authorities to do anything about it.
The state has promised repercussions.
Will there be a showdown?
We're going to talk about that when we come back.
And a very comprehensive unloading of what's going on here in Memphis.
Stay tuned.
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Christmas is such a wonderful time of year.
It's just such a beautiful time of year for Christians.
And above all else, this show is, it's certainly a pro-white show, but it is even more importantly than that, a pro-Christian show and a pro-Southern show.
and that's why we have an audience that's very unique.
And so when you have a Southerner and a Christian and a hero like Nathan Bedford Forrest suffer this indignity at the hands of third-world lawless mob.
A rival, actually.
It's a rabble.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, and so many people have contacted me this week, knowing that this is something firmly in our wheelhouse.
This message particularly stood out amidst all of the correspondence.
Breaks my heart to hear of the attacks on Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Politics aside, this man's life story is amazing, a historic racks to riches.
And he was willing to cast it aside for his nation.
He was the kind of man that boys wanted to be like and that men wished they had been like when they died.
By God, that's true.
That's why so many young southern boys to this day are named Forrest.
And his monument, the monument that was confiscated in this conspiracy, was truly fitting of the man that it honored.
I'm biased because Forrest is my guy.
He's a Memphian.
He's a Tennessean.
My personal hero above all other heroes.
But it is probably the most impressive equestrian monument that I've ever seen, certainly.
It's truly a work of art.
Well, it's a masterpiece.
The monument alone was worth a million dollars, much less the property that sold for a thousand.
Okay, so getting back to it, the city of Memphis couldn't remove the Forrest Monument due to state law, so it sold the massive downtown park for $1,000 to a private entity that agreed to do the dirty work.
This also, of course, is not just a monument, but the gravesite of General Forrest and his wife.
Now, the graves are still there.
You just can't visit them anymore.
The great-great-grandson of Nathan Bedford Forrest went to visit the grave on Thursday, the day after all of this happened, and police led him out of the park.
So now family members, I mean, literal, I mean, we all consider him to be family, I guess, but literal family members.
The great-great-grandson of Forrest went to pay his respects at his great-great-grandfather's grave and was led out by police and given the private property now.
Just imagine if you went to visit your ancestors' graves and some policeman showed up and gave you the bums rush out of the cemetery.
This whole thing I'm reading now from the local paper, and my how the commercial appeal has changed since from 1901 to 2017.
But the city of Memphis sold two public parks containing Confederate monuments to a nonprofit who took the statues down immediately.
That's another thing.
The cranes were on the site a minute after.
I mean, the ink hadn't even dried.
The cranes were there.
This was a pre-orchestrated conspiracy.
And we mentioned that they sold it for $1,000 to a shell company called the Memphis Green Space, which is owned by a group called the Overton Airs, whatever the hell that is.
The prime mover in it is a black man named Van Turner.
Who's a Shelby County Commissioner?
And by the way, now, the statues, people are wondering where the monuments are, the statues to Forrest and Davis.
They are being held in a hangar on city property that is used by the fire department for training.
Okay?
So all of this, once it's sold, was supposed to be underwritten.
The cost of transportating these monuments, the cost of the police presence there while they were being moved, all was supposed to be covered by this private group.
But then here they are, come to find out they're being stored in a city-owned building.
So more collusion, more conspiracy.
Now, let's get to that before we leave that particular issue.
We want to talk who was responsible for paying the cost of getting the cranes out there, moving the statues, transporting them to their storage site.
Well, we have information that it was an individual named Gail Rose.
She is the divorced wife of the former, the late Mike Rose.
Mike Rose was the head of Holiday Inn back in the late 70s, early 80s.
He and a guy named Roy Weingartner made the old Christian fundamentalist founders, Kemmons Wilson and Wallace E. Johnson, walk the plank, basically, and took over the holidays.
So you're saying, and I didn't even know that.
I'm learning this on the air with everyone else.
You're saying this individual is the one who underwrote most of that $250,000.
I want to say this.
She's been outspoken in her support for moving these things.
And she is a Jewish philanthropic busybody who was born and raised in Iowa.
Well, just like, see, we basically have carpetbaggers in charge of this.
She was from Iowa.
She's the one who is apparently grubstaked this whole enterprise.
On the other hand, we have a mayor from Indiana.
Another carpetbagger.
Carpetbagging has been going on for a long time down here.
And he looks like nothing more than he looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
He is the one who told me to my face when he was running for mayor that he really supported keeping the statues where they were and had no problem with them, but he had to walk cautiously because now he has totally changed his mind and wants them out and is crowing about it.
And he's a lawyer.
I want to say this one thing, though, Keith, before we continue.
Sam Bushman's brought this up, and he's dead right.
He repeated it in the last commercial break.
$250,000, no matter who came up with the money.
The fact of the matter is, they didn't have a problem.
You're talking about $250,000 just to remove a statue, okay?
Just to remove a statue.
$250,000, they raised it.
They put their money where their mouth is.
We couldn't even raise $1,000 to buy the park if it was up for public auction.
Okay?
That's where we're at.
They put their money with their mouth, by God, and they get the job done.
Our people have got to rise up.
Well, this is this is you know, Jewish people are slandered when they are said to be cheap.
You know, there used to be a lot of old jokes about that.
Scott, yeah, well, the thing is, Scots-Irish people are the really cheap people.
That's what we are.
We're the people that won't raise the money, won't do anything that will basically counter Jewish power.
Well, I know a lot of people that's what is behind this whole thing.
I know a lot of millionaires as a result of doing this show.
We meet a lot of people.
I've never met one that's we've still never received.
Let me put it this way: we've still never received a contribution over a few hundred dollars ever.
And here we are.
I mean, really, one of the reasons the parks are still here is because of our efforts over the years.
Now, let's talk about the fact that this was given away at below market value and the number of laws.
We're going to come back for a nominal price.
Let's be honest about it.
John just called in and wanted us to talk about that.
The fact that this parcel, which was worth millions of dollars on the open market, was given away basically for $1,000.
I don't know why they charged anything.
That's obviously against the law.
And we mentioned that.
And it's obvious that this transfer was a mere subterfuge to defy the court's authority.
The court, it's now before the Chancery Court of Davidson County.
That's where Nashville is, the capital of Tennessee, for a decision.
And it was scheduled for a hearing on their appeal of the Historic Preservation Commission's decision not to take down the statues as the city of Memphis had petitioned for.
We had a hearing set for January 16th, and this is contempt of court.
This is a, and it's being orchestrated by a lawyer who happens to be the mayor of Memphis, Jim Strickland.
That raises ethical, you know, lawyer ethic issues.
One, two, it's contempt of court, or arguably contempt of court.
The chancellor in Nashville should issue what's called a show cause order to the city council and to the mayor for them to show cause, if any they have, why they should not be held in contempt of the court's order not to do anything until a final decision is received.
Well, when we come back from the next break, we're going to tell you what the state of Tennessee is planning for Memphis and all of the top, well, except for the governor, who's another cuck, Bill Haslam.
But you've got the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house, the house majority leader, and the legislature.
The state attorney general and the legislature at large that is going to come down on Memphis for this.
I think that the state legislature could probably get the sale of the parks overturned because it just so clearly violated the law and numerous laws.
But do you ever see a day when a crane is going to come back and put those monuments on top of their pedestals?
Well, that would be wonderful, and it would be the right thing to do.
But again, you've got the hands, you've got these monuments now being held hostage by thugs.
I guarantee you, there's no way, unless you get a governor with balls that is going to send, as you mentioned last night, the National Guard in or the state guard to the United States.
Play that like they did against Orville Faubus and the state of Arkansas back in 1957 to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School.
Of course, the left can muster all this power.
When the right tries to do anything, it reminds you of the old saying, when all is said and done, more will be said than done.
And unless that happens, you're just going to have these thugs holding these beautiful monuments, these masterpieces, in use stores, even if they get it tied up in court for years and years, that i'll tell you this is a mess.
This is what happens.
When you've got savages running a government, you get savage law, you get the rule of the jungle.
That's what you get.
We come back.
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All right,
folks, let's catch you up now on what's going on in terms of a response.
Don't forget, we're going to hear from Gene Andrews in the second hour, former commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Tennessee Division.
Hell of a guy.
And the curator of Nathan Bedford Forest Nurse Birth Books.
Now, I heard this in, this was written in the Jackson Sun.
Jackson, Tennessee, daily newspaper.
Republican state lawmakers on Thursday called for an investigation and are considering drafting new legislation after Memphis sold two public parks to circumvent state law in order to remove Confederate statues.
Now we know that.
In the statement released Thursday, House Majority Leader Glenn Casada, House Republican Caucus Chairman Ryan Williams said they will immediately begin working with House Speaker Beth Harwell, Attorney General Herbert Slattery, and the state comptroller's office to investigate the matter and recommend action to the full body of the legislature.
On Wednesday, the Memphis City Council unanimously approved the sale of two public parks, each for $1,000, that had statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and President Jefferson Davis, which again were worth millions of dollars.
The sale to the nonprofit Memphis Green Space Circumvents State Law that requires the city to get approval from the Tennessee Historical Commission in order to seek the statue's removal.
Approval was necessary because the statues were on public property.
By we are rather, I should say, we are governed by the rule of law here in Tennessee, and these actions are a clear infringement upon the principle and sets a dangerous precedent for our state.
We're looking forward to beginning this investigation and addressing the important constitutional issue as we prepare for the 2018 legislative session in Nashville.
I will say that also Lieutenant Governor Rand McNally said that he was saddened by the city's attempt to make an inrun around the law and the explicit intent of the General Assembly.
You know, the mayor has more or less admitted that that's what this was.
It was an end run around the law.
It was obviously done in contempt of the court's order and the historical preservation commission's ruling.
They were look.
Basically what happened was that the more radical elements of the black community in Memphis, the Take-Em-Down movement, headed by a person named Tammy Sawyer that is running for county commission in the next election, which is coming up this spring and summer, by the way.
They just run out of patience.
They wanted things done immediately.
They wanted things now.
They want immediate gratification.
They weren't willing to let the legal process complete.
And quite frankly, it probably works to the advantage of the people that want these statues to remain and were against the take-themed movement, that these people were so impatient because had they waited even a half a month or a month later, they may have gotten a ruling from the Chancery Court of Davidson County in accordance with what they've done.
But now they can't unring the bell.
Their illegal actions have been enshrined now in their history.
There's nothing they can do to gild the lily now.
They've done it.
They've stepped in it.
They have got to enforce the laws.
I mean, so right here, you've got the lieutenant governor of Tennessee said the apparent violation of the Sunshine Law and selling of the parks is concerning the city of Memphis must uphold state laws.
Now, it's a question of what are they going to do about it?
I mean, the state of Tennessee has already taken notice.
They've got to enforce their laws.
They've got to drop the hammer on the city of Memphis.
There has got to be some punishment and some retribution.
Well, again, let's, first of all, as people have been often commenting about a piece of paper like the Constitution or laws, statutes from the state of Tennessee or ordinances from the city of Memphis, those paper barriers aren't going to stop a determined rabble like the Memphis City Council from doing what they are impulsively driven to do,
which is to take down these statutes.
The state's going to have to bonk some heads then.
Well, here's what happens now.
This is what, so it's really an assessment of what personalities are involved in this conflict.
And as we've said, the mayor of Memphis, although a white man, one, he's not a southerner, and two, he is a cuck.
He is the type of guy that would basically turn over his daughter, like lot, to a rabble if that was going to get him political capital.
He is deathly afraid of being called the R word.
He's deathly afraid of being politically incorrect.
He is an instinctive liberal.
He was a Democrat before he tried to disguise himself as a nonpartisan person running for mayor of Memphis.
But likewise, the governor of Tennessee is a Chamber of Commerce Republican who has said that he was for taking down the statutes.
But there are people in the state.
But there's a wild card in this deck.
And the wild card is the Tennessee legislature, which as James pointed out earlier in the show, is populated by a primarily rural membership, people from rural districts who don't care two hoots in hell about political correctness, that dislike Memphis greatly.
In fact, I think it was a representative from Strawberry Hill some years ago who said that Memphis was a ward on the body politic of Tennessee.
They have historically considered Memphis to be the red-headed stepchild at the family reunion in Tennessee.
They dislike Memphis intensely, and I think this is just the opportunity they need to drop the hammer on Memphis.
All right.
Now, Keith, this violation of law and ethics and decency is so egregious and so flagrant.
Even Fox News has come down on Memphis for this.
Can you believe it?
Todd Starnes, who I met at the Republican National Convention, he's a Memphian.
I'm a Memphian.
I went up and talked to him for a few minutes when we were covering the convention there last year in Cleveland.
Todd Starnes wrote for Foxnews.com on Thursday, Memphis mayor should be hauled out of City Hall in handcuffs.
That is a strong commentary from Fox News here.
For a mainstream conservative like Todd Starnes.
Here's what he wrote.
For the past years, progressives have been waging a cultural jihad across the nation.
Sadly, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, has suffered a similar fate.
While most good citizens of Memphis were attending Wednesday night church services, the mayor and city council were busy finalizing a despicable plot to bypass the law and desecrate a Civil War gravesite.
Here's how it happened.
Todd Starnes continues.
The city council voted on Wednesday to sell two public parks to a newly formed nonprofit group chaired by a county commissioner.
Anyone smell a rat?
The two parks, both prized pieces of real estate, were sold for $1,000 each.
What kind of shady deal is that?
While the city council was voting, heavy machinery and an army of police officers were being dispatched to both parks.
Did the nonprofit pick up the tab for the police officers, or were the taxpayers forced to foot the bill?
After the city, again, reading straight from Fox News here, ladies and gentlemen, after the city council passed the sham real estate deal, the cowardly mayor issued a notice on social media.
Within a matter of hours, both statues were removed into the darkness of night.
James Patterson, the commander of the Tennessee Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, called it a well-organized behind-the-scenes plan by the city.
They are willfully violating the Heritage Protection Act.
The city has broken state law.
Beyond that, the bodies, this is Todd Starnes continuing, beyond that, the bodies of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are buried in the parks.
Therefore, it is my contention that the mayor and the city council are also guilty of desecration.
My fury.
This is Todd News.
Todd Starn's mainstream Todd Starnes.
My Fury has.
He talks about being furious.
He says, I got to cut this off for the sake of time here.
We're running out of time.
He talks about being furious over this.
Mayor Jim Strickland and the Memphis City Council flouted the law.
They violated their oath of office and they desecrated a gravesite.
I urge the governor and the legislature to launch an immediate investigation into the corruption that has infested Memphis City Hall.
The law demands it.
And I look forward to the day when Mayor Jim Strickland and members of the city council are removed from office and hauled out of City Hall in handcuffs.
The Memphis City Council and the mayor should be taken into custody immediately.
The Memphis City Council in the dark of night has sold these two parks to a nonprofit so that the nonprofit can tear down Confederate monuments.
Todd Starnes at Foxnews.com, ladies and gentlemen.
Right.
He is a nationwide herd political commentator, kind of a minor league rush limbal.
And to have someone in a position like that with Fox News come out as strongly against this action shows you just how flagrant these violations of law and decency were.
Now, the question would come, is the statue part of the grave?
Well, let me just point this out.
Gail Rose's son, unfortunately, was killed in an automobile accident some years ago, and she had an elaborate statuary prepared to be on top of his grave.
If something happened to that, I'm sure she would consider that to be desecration of his grave.
Likewise, we consider the removal of Forrest's statue from on top of his grave to likewise be desecration of a grave.
By the way, I'm not in the least bit suggesting anything like that happened to her son's grave.
I have great sympathy personally for her losing her son and also being divorced without cause by her husband.
But on the other hand, I think it's important to point out that equivalent.
All right, when we come back, Gene Andrews, he's going to talk about what comes next.