Talk:United Confederate Veterans Memorial

Private property vs public property
This article needs to make clear to the reader that Lake View Cemetery is private property, and the memorials there are private property. The memorials listed at Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials particularly those related to the post-Charlottesville protests, are overwhelmingly concerned with public property. The opinions of the general public, or of politicians or government officials, carry no weight as far as the disposition of private property such as this cemetery memorial. No public money is at issue, and the First Amendment prohibits any interference as to the design and messages in a private memorial.The Make It Right Project has a quotation that says the monument is in a "publicly visible location and therefore should fall under current ordinances to remove offensive markings visible to the public." First, who are they quoting? Second, what ordinances? It's like saying a picture hanging on the wall of an art gallery might be seen by a passerby and therefore it has to be taken down because the contents are offensive to someone. Wikipedia shouldn't be arguing with our sources, but I do wonder how this is wouldn't be blatantly unconstitutional.Most of those protesting Confederate memorials are making the argument that it's a misuse of public money and public land to display messages that glorify the enemies of the United States and contradict the basic values of our society, not to mention offend many citizens. Alt-right trolls have worked to conflate that with censoring private art. Even though Ed Murray and Reuven Carlyle have failed to spell out clearly that these Seattle monuments are private property, it's part of an encyclopedia's purpose to clarify the basic facts, and the difference between public and private property is about as basic as it gets. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:31, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The article currently says, "acknowldeging that Lake View is private property outside the city's control". If you think more context/clarification is needed, please feel free to update the article appropriately. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:33, 9 October 2018 (UTC)