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Man cleared of charges in ransom plot to turn Confederate chair into a toilet
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/confederate-monument-ransom-plot-charges-dropped|]
A man charged with stealing a Confederate monument during a bizarre ransom scheme that threatened to turn the relic into a toilet said he had shown how “police do not always get the right man” after authorities recently abandoned the national headline-making prosecution against him.
A group calling itself White Lies Matter issued written threats to urinate and defecate on the chair if its owners – the United Daughters of the Confederacy – did not hang a particular banner outside their headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, by 9 April 2021, the 156th anniversary of the Confederate surrender ending the US civil war.
I guess that if you're a true Confederate, it's okay to make your leader's monument a toilet but libtards had better not move it from a place of honor.