Baltimore lacked authority to take down Confederate monuments

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Source: Baltimore Sun

The Maryland Historical Trust has concluded that Baltimore officials didn’t have the legal authority to remove three monuments to the Confederacy and says it reserves the right to order the city to put them back.

Elizabeth Hughes, director of the Maryland Historical Trust, shared the trustees’ conclusions in an October 20th letter to the head of Baltimore’s architectural preservation agency.

Hughes said the state trustees “will not concede that MHT lacks the authority … to compel restoration.”

“That said ... the Trustees believe that the best way forward is for MHT and the City to work cooperatively towards a mutual resolution,” she wrote.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-confederate-monuments-letter-20171026-story.html

[lapfog_1]

1. Note for Baltimore

The melting point of bronze is around 1750F.

A decent hot charcoal fire can burn at 2000F (but only within a few inches of the red hot charcoal - covered with a little white ash).

OTOH, Butane burns at around 2600F.

[Raster]

3. Burn Baby BURN!

[iluvtennis]

6. My thoughts exactly

[Kolesar]

7. Or dump them in the ocean before sun up...eom

[Not Ruth]

2. I still want a statue of Stringer Bell

[kwassa]

4. Omar comin'.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Can the city revoke the Maryland Historical Trust entirely?

or privatize it right into a brick wall?

[TeamPooka]

8. Good luck with that.