Were you not aware of what this same group did to the steps of the US Capitol just recently?
As a matter of fact I was not aware.
It still seems that preventing vandalism is the task of the DC and park police, if they do a poor job, that is on them.
I certainly understand the emotional need to protect that which is considered sacred, and as I stated I support the effort. It just does not seem accurate that "All DC Memorials" are "at risk."
Having seen up close and personal the vitriol the Code Pinko's are capable of (Standing in front of Walter Reed with signs that say "Enlist here to die for Halliburton", while there are traumatically injured soldiers inside looking out their window at that sign...and I know...I talked to one of them there who just could not understand why...) They are capable of anything.
Yes, there IS an emotional need to "protect the memorials". But that emotion is buttressed by the facts of what we have seen these people do. There are many there that do not think the rule of law applies to them.
Liberals are always the first to paint conservatives as brown shirt wearing jackbooted fascists.
But it is not conservatives who deface war memorials, campaign signs or the cars of people they disagree with. It is nearly always liberals. And yes, I do think the memorials are sacred. And no, after what I saw a few weeks back, I do not trust them to obey the rule of law and the constraints of decency.
That does not apply to all of them. Just to a not insubstantial minority.
It just does seem that you do not know what the h*ll you have been talking about nor who you are talking to. Do you think the DC CHapter has been facing off against these individuals and working with the DC and Park police for the past 8 years for nothing? Do you think you can judge the situation by sitting at your computer out there in the midwest and writing about the way things should be or used to be or might be? Get a clue. All the memorials are at risk.
The Park Police have been hamstrung by leftie congresspersons like Cynthia McKinney who brought the entire Sharpton/Jackson/Belafonte/NAACP machine to DC and threatened to have them fired and publicly vilified as bigots after they stopped her from entering the Capitol after she changed her hairstyle. They were spanked after they detained Cindy Sheehan when she crashed last year's State of the Union Address as a guest of a lefty congressperson. The ACLU is only too happy to accuse them of brutality if they so much as lay a restraining hand on a person with a huge sign saying "Death to Amerikkka."
And your contribution to helping the patriots in this situation is...... ?