Posted on 04/20/2016 10:58:52 AM PDT by jazusamo
A federal employee of the National Park Service who offers guided tours of Independence Hall in Philadelphia -- the birthplace of the Constitution -- stunned a group of tourists this week by telling them the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were the product of "class elites who were just out to protect their privileged status."
Mary A. Hogan, a federal employee making in excess of $95,000 per year in salary and benefits, provided a tour Monday afternoon at Independence Hall laced with factual inaccuracies and disparaging comments about the Founders and the Constitution.
Hogan, who goes by the name Missy, told a tour group at Independence Hall that "the Founders knew that when they left this room, what they had written wouldn't matter very much" according to multiple people in the tour group with whom I spoke. Hogan told the group that the "most important part of the Constitution written at Independence Hall was the ability to change it."
Hogan also inaccurately told the tour group that "King George III paid more attention to Parliament" than the colonists "because they were right there and could remove him from office." Parliament did not possess the power to remove the king from office in the 1770s, and does not possess that power today.
Hogan's LinkedIn page says she is the "chief of operations" at the National Park Service in Philadelphia.
"It is astounding how many times the first draft of that Constitution protected slavery," Hogan told her tour group Tuesday afternoon.
The text of the Constitution in 1787 did not mention slavery even once.
The only oblique reference to slavery is in Article I, Section 2. There, the Constitution refused to give southern states political power based on slaves inhabiting those states. Instead, the Constitution diluted the power of slave states by counting slaves only at a rate of 60 percent in allocating seats in Congress. Southern states wanted slaves to count 100% toward apportionment of seats. This "three-fifths" provision hurt slave-holding states, it did not "protect" them.
Hogan was reported to have said in an interview:
It is imperative that the interpreter has the ability to breech sensitive issues. At the same time I realize that it is as difficult as it is important. The interpreter needs to present the facts. It is important that the interpreter not put his/her own 21st century spin on it. Try to keep your own emotions in check when discussing these issues and allow visitors to draw their own conclusions. Interpreters must have faith in the visitors. The interpretive process relies on trust and communication between the visitor and the interpreter. It is necessary that the interpreter accept that some visitors will be offended. One of the most important attributes of an interpreter is bravery and a willingness to dive into the deep end of these subjects.I realize that its a lot easier to do a program on Benjamin Franklin than it is on Oney Judge, but its our duty to also tell the lesser known stories about our park and engage it from a multidimensional viewpoint.
Hogan is listed as a GS-12 employee on the federal pay scale and earns at least $95,000 in salary and benefits.
Go back to a gold standard, close the Federal Reserve - and the Federal Government automatically shrinks to 10% its present size.
Our massive fiat money debt is used to pay off supporters of the Progressive-Left nanny state, and pay for the comfortable leftist-revisionist views of its massive number of apparatchiks - like this twit in the Federal Park service.
well lets TRY! Who do we email/call/tweet? maybe does no good but maybe she’ll at least be told to shut her political mouth up!!
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
I’m sure there’s a need for a park ranger somewhere in the far northern reaches of Alaska. Send her ignorant ass up there.
I guessed wrong. I guessed a woman of color made this comment.
But damn all them old dead white people anyway, right?
/s
Another piece of shiitte lib on the government tit.
Is she also a Muslim? Transgender? Democrat?
Before I opened up this thread, I guessed it was a woman - “no reason or accountability”.
I have a friend and fellow historian who teaches high school students and takes them on tours. She and I have done tag-teaming before and have ripped into stupid people leaving no stone unturned. I sure wish she and I had been in her tour.
$95,000 per year, plus generous benefits, to be a government-employed tour guide?!?!?! Our government really is out of control.
What a perfect assignment for a communist airhead.
A Boy Scout First Class could do a better job. What a disgrace to America this prig is.
She may “identify” as a “woman of color.”
I'm in the wrong business. And to think I went to college for my line of work, when all I had to do was get hired as a park ranger........................
Bkmrk.
Just one more ass employed by the government——got to sell her wares in Philthydelphia
Missy Hogan,,,
All of the above?.....................
And would proudly do it for free.
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