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Lincoln Memorial vandalized with explicit graffiti
abc news ^ | August 15, 2017 | SAISHA TALWAR DAKSHAYANI SHANKAR

Posted on 08/15/2017 5:44:30 PM PDT by Hadean

The Lincoln Memorial was vandalized with bright-red graffiti early Tuesday morning at around 4.30 a.m. Officials with the National Park Service (NPS) said the red spray paint appears to state “[expletive] law” on one of the memorial’s columns overlooking the National Mall. Another instance in silver spray paint was also discovered on a Smithsonian wayfinding sign in the 1400 block of Constitution Avenue.

Work to remove the graffiti is already underway using a mild, gel-type architectural paint stripper, according to the NPS. The gel won’t affect the preservation of the memorial’s historic stone.

The crew will apply the treatment and let it set on the stone for approximately an hour, then rinse it with “clean, potable” water, according to the NPS. The process is repeated until “all evidence of the graffiti is gone.”

This isn’t the first instance of vandalism on the Lincoln Memorial or other national monuments.

In July 2013, the giant statue of the 16th president was splashed with green paint on the left pant leg. The Washington Post reported that this was the first incident of vandalism on the monument since its dedication in 1922.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abrahamlincoln; dc; fword; graffiti; greatestpresident; lincolnmemorial; lookwhohatescops; vandalism; whatshisfrnick
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1 posted on 08/15/2017 5:44:30 PM PDT by Hadean
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2 posted on 08/15/2017 5:45:46 PM PDT by Hadean
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MLK beat women:

Why not remove HIS statue..?


3 posted on 08/15/2017 5:46:56 PM PDT by gaijin
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ABC News-——SAISHA TALWAR DAKSHAYANI SHANKAR

Oh well.....


4 posted on 08/15/2017 5:48:13 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Often hired white prostitutes, beat them up

In for a penny, in for a pound, maybe..?

WHERE does it stop, hmmmmm....????

Do they believe in women's rights....OR NOT..?

5 posted on 08/15/2017 5:48:34 PM PDT by gaijin
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The door is open on monuments— isn’t it? It’s ok? You desecrate our Southern heritage and you see no reaction?


6 posted on 08/15/2017 5:49:10 PM PDT by raiderboy
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SAISHYA, author of this article

The most amazing full name I've seen in my life..??

7 posted on 08/15/2017 5:50:22 PM PDT by gaijin
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Antifa has “marked” it’s next target for removal, the Lincoln memorial. This is their goal, to eliminate all physical evidence of our past and history. To change the truth and make it a lie. It’s called Fascism, the very thing that claim to be against. Fascism is at the very heart of the Democrat Party, and Antifa is demonstrating this to the world


8 posted on 08/15/2017 5:50:41 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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Her full name is 29 letters long.


9 posted on 08/15/2017 5:50:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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She looks like half of my neighbors.

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10 posted on 08/15/2017 5:51:19 PM PDT by Mears
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“...”This is their goal, to eliminate all physical evidence of our past and history. To change the truth and make it a lie. ...”

ISIS tactics?


11 posted on 08/15/2017 5:53:25 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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It’s the South African model:

You first have to destroy the heritage.

And THAT is what they’re doing, there:

On all the Universities they attack and obliterate the monuments to all the white people; paint, chisels and fire.

Before you destroy a people physically you have to soften them up:

You have to obliterate their sense of HERITAGE before they’re willing to all pass away.

But THAT is the ultimate objective.


12 posted on 08/15/2017 5:53:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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These monuments should always have surveillance.


13 posted on 08/15/2017 5:58:01 PM PDT by Crucial
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Those so ignorant of Lincoln history will next demand that the Emancipation Proclamation be destroyed. These people are below imbecilic levels.


14 posted on 08/15/2017 5:58:47 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: JBW1949

Back in the day when someone with a name like that showed up to work at some farm or restaurant in rural America the boss would ask “So what’s your name?”, “SAISHA TALWAR DAKSHAYANI SHANKAR”

“We’ll just call you Sally”

“Now, go in the back and help Bob”


15 posted on 08/15/2017 5:58:47 PM PDT by Zeneta
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By SAISHA TALWAR DAKSHAYANI SHANKAR

Any relation to Ravi Shankar?


16 posted on 08/15/2017 6:01:36 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Cupertino..?


17 posted on 08/15/2017 6:09:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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NEXT..?

I can see no logical reason why they wouldn't eventually find their way, here.

In fact they're probably planning it out, right now.

18 posted on 08/15/2017 6:13:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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Nope,Massachusetts——Boston suburb——and a Jainism religious center not too far away.

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19 posted on 08/15/2017 6:14:23 PM PDT by Mears
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Check the link...it’s two different reporters.


20 posted on 08/15/2017 6:32:31 PM PDT by clive bitterman
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