Digging up the dead because you disagree with them

Local officials and residents, outraged by the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month and determined to clear their cities of markers that glorify the Confederacy, are pushing for the removal of Confederate monuments that have adorned the graves of soldiers for decades.
from the NYTimes 

The ghoulish Mr. Murkle on the City Council said:

“I propose we dig up and destroy Confederate dead!

Even if the worms have done their work, there still might be

A bit of bone or sinew that can reek of infamy!”

His voice was not alone, and soon the many were ablaze

With disinterring corpses of those who had Southern ways.

Eternal rest no longer was an option for remains

Of those who lost the Civil War down cemetery lanes.

But why stop there, the mob decreed -- there’s many villains sunk

In the ground who ought to be no more than a dead skunk!

We’ll dig ‘em up and grind their bones to show our loyalty

To our country’s greatness and the bonds of charity!

The morbid work commenced in California (not a shock)

Where pioneers and actors were unburied by the block.

Politicians, bandits, and a scientist or two,

Were also roused and made into a nauseating glue.

The evil that men do, or were accused of, anyway,

Now meant graveyards gave up ev’ryone as equal prey.

Cremation is the only course, if you don’t want to be

Put up on display because of idiosyncrasy . . .