Posted on 07/26/2013 6:28:05 AM PDT by cll
The Lincoln Memorial was shut down Friday morning after vandals splashed the statue of the nations 16th president and the marble floor around it with green paint, U.S. Park Police said.
Police are reviewing surveillance footage from the popular tourist attraction on the west end of the Mall, but so far they have released no information about who may have been responsible.
Authorities believe the vandalism happened around 1:30 a.m. The National Park Service will work to clean up the paint, police said, and the memorial will be closed to the public until cleanup is complete.
Police said no words or symbols had been painted or written on the memorial, only splatters of green paint. No damage was reported at the Malls other memorials and monuments.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Muslims. Really. Green is the color associated with holy things—splashing green paint makes sense for them.
Police said no words or symbols had been painted or written on the memorial, only splatters of green paint.
I'm sure that the choice of green paint is a mere coincidence.
Could be generic vandalism using a random color, but this is the 0bama-nation we're talking about. Could have been done by greenies or hoodies. Additionally,
Green paint to Islam is like dog P-P on a fire hydrant. Example: the desecration of Joseph's Tomb.
0bama recently claimed that
"Throughout our history, Islam has contributed to the character of our country, and Muslim Americans, and their good works, have helped to build our nation and we've seen the results."
D'oh! That memorial/mosque must have been built for *Ibrihim* Lincoln. :-\
Whereas a joint Committee of both Houses of Congress has waited on the president of the United States, and requested him to "recommend a day of public humiliation , prayer and fasting, to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities, and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these states, His blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace":And whereas it is fit and becoming in all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the Supreme Government of God; to bow in humble submission to His chastisements; to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and to pray, with all fervency and contrition, for the pardon of their past offenses, and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action:
And Whereas, when our own beloved Country, once, by the blessing of God, united, prosperous and happy, is now afflicted with faction and civil war, it is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation, and in sorrowful remembrance of our own faults and crimes as a nation and as individuals, to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His mercy, - to pray that we may be spared farther punishment, though most justly deserved; that our army may be blessed and be made effectual for the reestablishment of law, order, and peace, throughout the wide extent of our country; and the inestimable boon of civil and religious liberty, earned under His guidance and blessing, by the labors and sufferings of our fathers, may be restored in all its original excellence-
Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do appoint the last Thursday in September next, as a day of humiliation, prayer and fasting for all the people of the nation. And I do earnestly recommend to all the people, and especially to all ministers and teachers of religion of all denominations, and to all heads of families, to observe and keep that day according to their several creeds and modes of worship, in all humility and with all religious solemnity, to the end that the united prayer of the nation may ascend to the Throne of Grace, and bring down plentiful blessings upon our Country.
Oh my god they slimmed Lincoln!!!!!!
EEUUww,.
Many of the monuments are much more dramatic at night. Especially the Korean War and FDR memorials.
However, the biggest reason is probably the weather. DC is hot and humid this time of year. But, it's tolerable at night.
Well, he might have, if Lincoln hadn't been a Republican.
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