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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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To: gaijin

During Sturgis would be a great time for Antifa to fast rope down and spray paint something on Mount Rushmore. Lots of American loving leather wearing bikers might be waiting to have a discussion with them though.


21 posted on 08/15/2017 6:33:30 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: gaijin

Yeah, if you know anything about it!


22 posted on 08/15/2017 6:33:34 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: Mears

Half of your neighbors are that cute? Where do you live again?


23 posted on 08/15/2017 6:33:50 PM PDT by clive bitterman
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To: gaijin

GMTA! I WAS THINKING THAT, TOO!


24 posted on 08/15/2017 6:34:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Fiddlstix

Google Ravi’s daughter, you will be surprised.


25 posted on 08/15/2017 6:34:38 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: gaijin

Who’s stopping this nonsense?


26 posted on 08/15/2017 6:36:39 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: clive bitterman

“Half of your neighbors are that cute? Where do you live again?”

Chandigarth-—they don’t call it India’s Happiest City for nothing. :-)

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27 posted on 08/15/2017 6:46:47 PM PDT by Mears
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To: USMCPOP

ISIS was a nothing group in 2009. By 2011, it had grown to over 50,000, and was armed by the CIA. Who knew the Left Wing was so closely aligned with ISIS? And they have the same ideology


28 posted on 08/15/2017 6:47:56 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Lockbox

Ravi with both daughters


29 posted on 08/15/2017 6:52:37 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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To: gaijin; Mears
Cupertino..?

I almost guessed Silicon Valley..?

30 posted on 08/15/2017 6:58:02 PM PDT by null and void (You can only see into the future as far as you can see into your past.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Sturgis. One yutz tried to hold up a liquor store there when the bike rally was taking place. After the bikers got done with him, he willingly surrendered to the police.


31 posted on 08/15/2017 7:56:42 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Hadean

Sad day.


33 posted on 08/15/2017 8:52:14 PM PDT by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: Sasparilla

These are the same people that castigate the Three Fifths Compromise because to them it means the embryonic US thought blacks were only 3/5 the value of a white person.


34 posted on 08/15/2017 8:54:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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To: Hadean

So just what would be the reaction if a mob went around tearing down statues of the plagerizer, Martin Luther King?


35 posted on 08/16/2017 3:07:35 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: gaijin

Shankar = short for Chancre??


36 posted on 08/17/2017 7:46:42 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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