re: Landrieu says there will be a 30 day delay in removing PGT Beauregard Monument

Title to these monuments is not in the city's hands. That is a fact. Those who erected these monuments 100+ years ago never intended them to be city property, and the mayor and city council know this. The city and its lawyers are taking advantage of an unfortunate lack of title documentation to make the argument, under general property law, that if we do not know who owns them then the city does by default. This is disingenuous, but the local state and federal courts have sided with the city on this question.

Hopefully one day an archivist or abstractor will find proof of their actual ownership, but it will be too late for the four monuments at issue. Louisiana needs to pass legislation to prevent this type of thing from ever happening again, as does every other state in the South, in the interests of preserving American History and repudiating those despots and fascists who seek to erase the past.