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Vandals deface the town war memorial
Burton Mail ^ | December 11, 2009 | Richard Castle

Posted on 12/24/2009 7:25:48 PM PST by myknowledge

A ROYAL British Legion boss says vandals have “dishonoured those who have given their lives for our country” by defacing Burtonʼs war memorial.

Roy Whenman, vice-chairman of the town’s Legion branch, received calls from members saying an extremist message had been written on the statue. Having been informed at 9.20am, borough council chiefs had cleaned the graffiti from the relic, situated outside Burton College, in Lichfield Street, by 9.40am.

Mr Whenman, of Birches Close, Stretton, has described whoever committed the offence as “diabolical”.

He said: “There’s nothing worse, in my eyes, than discrediting a war memorial. It dishonours those who have given their lives for our country.

“I don’t know how long it was there for, but I was pleasantly surprised by the council’s quick action and I commend them for it.

“What I would say to them is there are other ways of expressing your anger about certain issues.”

Dennis Fletcher, chairman of East Staffordshire Racial Equality Council, said he suspected someone from the far right was responsible.

He said: “My reaction is one of horror. Just two nights ago at our general committee meeting we were talking about the harmony between communities in the borough.

“I suspect members of the far right have done this to stir things up and there are generally very good inter-cultural relations in East Staffordshire.

“Graffiti of any type is terrible but when it includes racist material it has to be considered utterly unacceptable.”

An East Staffordshire Borough Council spokesman said: “We would say that this vandalism is deplorable and we do our best to clean such graffiti as soon as we possibly can.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: burtonontrent; islamineurope; memorialdesecration; vandalism; warmemorial

Sending an insulting message to British war veterans by vandalizing the war memorial with this Islamofascist statement:

Islam will dominate the world...

Islam will NOT dominate the world...

1 posted on 12/24/2009 7:25:49 PM PST by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge

Muslim — gee, who woulda thunk it.


2 posted on 12/24/2009 7:30:52 PM PST by Aroostook25
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To: myknowledge
Islam the Religion of peace>
3 posted on 12/24/2009 7:31:46 PM PST by ColdOne (ColdOne (Merry Christmas))
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To: myknowledge

The Brits have a few combat vets who can solve the problem, if they are allowed, that is.
Jack


4 posted on 12/24/2009 7:31:48 PM PST by btcusn
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To: myknowledge
That looks like a woman's penmanship, or spraymanship.
5 posted on 12/24/2009 7:45:15 PM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: myknowledge

Yeah, ‘’far Right’’ vandals did this. Good Lord The Brits will continue to deny the obvious even as it slaps them in the face. Muslims did this and mark my words, when the inevitable day comes that Islam does dominate England and France, how long do you think it will be before these Saracen barbarians are digging up the graves and desecrating the military cemeteries of the honored war dead, including our own ?


6 posted on 12/24/2009 7:47:29 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: myknowledge

look for a left handed Muslim.


7 posted on 12/24/2009 7:49:56 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: usmcobra

Burton Is overwhelmingly Pakistani. So, too is much of Bradford, Dewsbury & Batley.
Funny they never said what the message said??


8 posted on 12/24/2009 10:01:09 PM PST by She hits a grand slam tonight
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