Sign stolen at Jefferson Davis Park
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
By JEFFREY MIZE Columbian Staff WriterVandals last week broke off and stole a 4-by-8-foot sign at a private park near Ridgefield that honors Jefferson Davis, Confederate president during the Civil War.
The park, along the west side of Interstate 5 south of the Gee Creek Rest Area, features the granite Jefferson Davis marker that was displayed outside Vancouver’s Covington House for five decades until the city removed it 1998.
Brent Jacobs, Oregon division commander for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the marker was not damaged during the incident, which occurred sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Vandals also did not damage or steal the Third National Flag of the Confederacy, which was adopted toward the end of the Civil War and flies alongside an American flag at the quarter-acre park. Both flagpoles have locked doors to discourage mischief.
The sign was attached to heavy wood posts set in concrete, and one of the posts was broken at the ground level, Jacobs said.
It’s not clear if the theft was a random act of vandalism or a political statement at the park, which was dedicated in late April.
“We’re sort of the opinion it could either,” Jacobs said. “ I myself would lean toward the high school prank.”
Jacobs, however, also said the theft would be construed as a hate crime if it had occurred at a private park honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Sgt. Scott Schanaker of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said his department took a report of the theft. The sheriff’s office has no evidence or suspects, he said.
Jacobs, whose great-great grandfather fought for the South in the Civil War, said his group will replace the sign.
It already has submitted an order to Clark Public Utilities to have the sign lighted to discourage future incidents, he said.
“I would just say thank you to the neighbors for trying their best to keep their eye out for it,” he added. |
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| 1. Comment by James King - June 05, 2008 @ 09:44 AM |
| The Confederate Flag and the United States Flag are judged by different standards and criteria, and are not held to the same levels of accountability. In analytical science and weights and measures, comparisons are made against known standards. However, in politics comparisons are never made in a fair and impartial manner.
In order to understand the hypocrisy, ignorance, and bias that have been directed against the Confederate Flag, it is necessary to use the U.S. Flag (Stars and Stripes) as a standard of comparison. The purpose of this comparison is not to berate or disparage the U.S. Flag, but rather to prove that the Confederate Flag has received unfair and unequal treatment.
The genocide and racial cleansing of the American Indians took place under the U.S. Flag. Finally, the U.S. Flag flies over a nation that has murdered an estimated 50 million babies by abortion.
Political Correctness has been used to attempt bans of The Confederate Flag from schools, parades, public and private property, and even historical monuments and sites.
The Confederate flag represents Constitutional Limited Federal Government, States Rights, Resistance to Tyranny, and Christian Values and Principles. Thus it represents the principles and values of America's founding fathers. To say that it represents racism and bigotry is a negative and shallow interpretation comparable to saying the U.S. flag represents the genocide of the American Indians and abortion. |
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| 2. Comment by James King - June 05, 2008 @ 09:50 AM |
| CONSTITUTION OR UNION? Robert E. Lee had to make a decision in 1861. Defend the Constitution or defend the Union? He made the correct decision to defend the Constitution. This makes him an American hero--not a traitor as claimed by some who do not understand the ideas and concepts of government as established by Americas founding fathers. America was founded as a Constitutional Federal Republic composed of a Limited Federal Government and Sovereign States. In 1861 the Federal Government of America was taken over by New England zealots, fanatics, and hypocrites who were driven by greed. They had a blatant disregard for the Constitution when it stood in the way of profit and power. "All the South has ever desired was that the union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved; and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." ~~ Gen. Robert E. Lee 1866 "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know where it is today " Robert E. Lee Subsequent history has shown that our Confederate ancestors were right; the modern central government is a swollen monstrosity, with its tentacles grasping into every aspect of our lives. The constitutionally-limited government of the Founding Fathers died at Appomattox. "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969 |
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| 3. Comment by James King - June 05, 2008 @ 10:02 AM |
| Every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns, and battles, and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles." Gen. Robert E. Lee
The tyranny of an unbridled majority, the most odious and least responsible form of despotism, has denied us both the right and the remedy. Therefore we are in arms to renew such sacrifices as our fathers made to the holy cause of constitutional liberty.... Jefferson Davis's Second Inaugural Speech,1862
The real issue involved in the relations between the North and the South of the American States, is the great principle of self-government. Shall a dominant party of the North rule the South, or shall the people of the South rule themselves. This is the great matter in controversy. (Montgomery, Alabama, 1860) -- Robert Barnwell Rhett
"All the South has ever desired was that the union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved; and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." ~~ Gen. Robert E. Lee 1866
"Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision." --Gen. Pat Cleburne, CSA |
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| 4. Comment by James King - June 05, 2008 @ 07:34 PM |
| The Confederate States of America did not attempt to overthrow the government of the United States of America. The CSA was no more interested in overthrowing Washington DC in 1861-65 than George Washington was in overthrowing England in 1775-83. The CSA constitutionally, legally, and honorably seceded from the Union with the USA and formed a new nation just as America seceded from England. In both cases the seceding nation was promptly invaded. Treason? At the end of the Civil War U.S. officials made plans to try and convict former Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Four legal teams looked at the case and told the U.S. officials that secession was legal and that Davis would be found not guilty. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Chase confirmed that secession was legal and that it would be a mistake to try to convict Davis or any former Confederate. The USA had conducted an unconstitutional and criminal war and had won but a trial would expose that fact. Lincoln acted with deceit in the Fort Sumter incident. The USA was the aggressor. Yes the CSA fired the first shot but it was in response to an act of war that was already being carried out by the USA. U.S. troops had already invaded Southern territory-the sovereign state of South Carolina. Lincoln intentionally and deliberately provoked the CSA into firing the first shot so he could claim the CSA started the war. |
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| 5. Comment by Allen Hoff - June 07, 2008 @ 06:07 AM |
| Another Confederate sign stolen? Is Moller and Stoner back together again, because they stoled the first one, if you care to remember that.
And the Stars and Bars flag is the Confederate war flag, not the real Confederate flag. |
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