Why do politicians have such a boner for meaningless memorials?

I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.

The abbot was not merely accused of rape and murder; the crime of sorcery was laid to his charge, as well as to Matilda’s. […] To criminate the monk, the constellated mirror was produced, which Matilda had accidentally left in his chamber.

Thou ſhalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine:[…]