Posted on 07/30/2025 10:58:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
As Will Ferrell’s character Ron Burgundy said in the 2004 movie “Anchorman”: “Leave the mothers out of this. That’s not necessary.”
Antifa apparently didn’t get the memo, and went after a monument dedicated to the mother of our first president, George Washington, over the weekend.
Leftists have been attempting to tear down monuments and rewrite history for years. But they are no longer satisfied with attacking great historical figures. They now feel the need to turn their attention toward the mother of one of those historical figures. How despicable.
The Mary Washington Monument in Virginia was vandalized Saturday night. The word “ANTIFA” was spray-painted on it, along with an antifa symbol, according to a Washington Heritage Museums Facebook post.
“The first monument ever erected by women to honor a woman, Mary Ball Washington, was vandalized with graffiti on two sides,” the post said.
“The Fredericksburg Police Department has been notified of this terrible act and is conducting an investigation into the individual or individuals responsible,” it continued.
The group has asked for the local community to come forward if they have any information, and said the group Friends of the Washington Heritage Museums is offering a $1,500 reward for anything that leads to an arrest and conviction of the offenders.
“We also recognize that removing the paint from the monument in a nondestructive way can be both time-consuming and expensive,” the post added. “As such, we are humbly requesting donations from members of our community who are committed to the preservation and protection of the monument.”
Information about donating can be found here.
The monument is not only a tribute to America’s “first mother,” as the organization calls her; it’s also an important piece of history that illustrates our nation’s founding.
Anne Darron, executive director of the Washington Heritage Museums, shared her thoughts on this heinous act following its discovery.
“Spray painted symbols and words were applied to two sides of the obelisk, defacing a site that holds deep historical and cultural significance,” Darron wrote in an email to Fredericksburg Advance, a local news outlet.
“It’s a heartbreaking incident, especially considering how much time and care WHM has put into revitalizing the property,” she continued.
Darron added. “The organization has cleared invasive trees and underbrush, renovated the Caretaker’s Lodge, and is currently developing plans to improve both accessibility and the overall educational experience for visitors.”
Construction of a monument began back in the 1830s, but it was left unfinished for decades. Then in the 1890s, two female-led organizations — the Mary Washington Monument Association of Fredericksburg and the National Mary Washington Memorial Association — oversaw its completion, according to the Advance.
The Library of Congress website describes it as the “first memorial ever erected by women to a woman.”
“This site preserves the memory of George Washington’s mother, a woman so respected in her day that the nation went into mourning upon her death and would spend the next century to ensure she was properly remembered,” the website explained.
“However, it is also a testament to the dedication and perseverance of the two Memorial Ladies’ Associations who would raise the funds from women throughout the country to make this monument possible, to the first caretaker, Mrs. Frances Goolrick, and to the beautifying efforts of The Garden Club of Virginia, who financed the landscaping in the 1930s.”
Is nothing sacred anymore?
In their hate-filled mission to destroy America’s past, these vandals have crossed a line. They’ve declared open season on the families of figures they don’t like.
If they are allowed to get away with this now — and the trend spreads — what’s to stop the escalation from affecting family members of today’s figures whom they object to?
When they’re finally caught, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and thereby learn respect for those who sacrificed so we could all live in peace and freedom.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Thanks for posting, Red.
This is heartbreaking. It is WAY past time to declare antifa a domestic terrorist organization and completely eradicate them.
Lock and load.
“Anonymous” and “Occupy Wall Street” protests included the fact that there was no ruling body with leaders as the Black Panthers for example. Slippery eels.
If the current Antifa has some pretending to be ad hoc (which is a lie-—(all with black arm protection, Kevlar vests and steel helmets they happened to have on?) then the other side can say it is informal and ad hoc as the Antifa are finally opposed physically.
As Ancient Aliens and history books said the points of the obelisks reach upward toward heavenly powers to bless our Republic (including the woman on the top of the US Capitol) and we today need intervention against the evil we good people oppose now.
Here are a few of varying quality. I’ve read 4.
George Washington message from the World to Come:
“Don’t you diss my mama.”
These scumbags are not worthy to tie George Washington's boots.
It was probably the FBI trying to stir up some sh*t.
This is their way of expressing their hatred of America. It’s not sane that we just allow such people to remain in a country they hate. They should be exiled so they can be with their deported allies.
The Party's control over the past is a crucial element of its power. Two key quotes highlight this: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past," and "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered".
These quotes illustrate how the Party manipulates information and history to maintain its power in the present.
ANTIFA and other evil forces are unified to shape the objectives of the Party. It is that Party I call the DemonKKKrat Party.
It’s time for an open season on Antifa members with a bounty paid for proof of permanent removal from society.
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Mary Ball Washington’s exellent gingerbread recipe:
INGREDIENTS
3 cups all-purpose flour (sifted)
2 tablespoons ginger
1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1⁄2 teaspoons nutmeg
1 1⁄2 teaspoons mace
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
4 ounces unsalted butter
1⁄4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup dark molasses
1⁄2 cup honey
1/4 cup brandy (or bourbon or sherry)
1⁄2 cup milk
3 large eggs (beaten)
1⁄4 cup orange juice (reserve rind before squeezing oranges)
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons warm water
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350. Line a 13x9 pan with aluminum foil, making sure to cover the sides of the pan as well as the bottom. Butter the foil and set pan aside.
Sift together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cream of tartar, and salt. Set aside.
Cover the raisins with boiling water and let stand for 5 minutes. Drain in a strainer, then spread on paper towels to dry.
In large bowl with an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until soft. Add molasses and honey and beat well. Add sifted dry ingredients in three additions, alternating with brandy and milk in one addition, and eggs and orange juice in the other addition.
Dissolve baking soda in warm water and mix into the batter.
Grate the orange rind. Remove bowl from mixer and stir in grated orange rind and raisins by hand.
Turn mixture into prepared pan and smooth the top.
Bake 45-50 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly touched.
Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes. Then cover pan with a cookie sheet, invert pan, remove pan, peel off foil, cover with large rack, and turn gingerbread so it finishes cooling right-side up.
She did do something awful. Young George had his bags packed and at the door when she pitched a fit and kept him from accepting a commission. As an officer in the Royal Navy. Poor guy could have had a great military career, but noooo...
“Poor guy could have had a great military career, but noooo...”
Oh, wait...
The sooner all Marxist trash is kicked out of America the better off we will be.
I’ve read a recent biography of Mary Ball Washington (published within the past ten years or so) which you may be able to find in your library system and definitely on Amazon. Mary’s husband died leaving her with kids to raise, incl. George, and a small plantation to run, and as a single mother (widow who never remarried) she successfully raised the kids to adulthood. She didn’t want George to leave her to go to sea, it’s true, but a relative told her George, as a colonial American boy on a Royal Navy ship had little chance of advancement to officer in the Royal Navy where officer positions were bought or awarded based on a family’s influence and the relative told her young George would be used and abused on ship. The impression of Mary by generations of early biographers gave an impression of a controlling, smothering figure which modern biographers say was unjust.
Thank you for posting this.
Yup - it was a strange turn of events to be sure. George was 14 at the time and adored his elder brother Lawrence, who encouraged a military career. Yes, George was a colonial but he was coming in under the request and protection of his friend Lord Fairfax, so he wasn’t just any dirty-fingered farmer. How far he’d have gotten in the Royal Navy is pretty speculative. I hear he did OK in the army later in life...
You’re welcome. It’s really good!
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