Woman arrested in green paint vandalism at Washington National Cathedral

StarTribune.com ^ | 7/29/13 | BEN NUCKOLS/AP

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

A woman was arrested Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral, and police were investigating her in connection with two similar incidents on the National Mall, authorities said.

The woman was arrested in the area of the cathedral shortly after the paint was found, Assistant D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said. Investigators were hoping to question her about the vandalism on the Mall, including at the Lincoln Memorial, but a language barrier delayed the interrogation, Newsham said.

[livius]

Quick, call Jeantel!

[pfflier]

Isn’t green the color preferred by islam?

[central_va]

Ebonics

[soycd]

My guess a palitrash export.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

You might be on to something there -

 

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/11/14/colors-of-religion-paganism

 

"Green is the colour everyone immediately associates with Paganism. It is the colour of nature, of trees, and all growing things. It is associated with the Green Man, a symbol of our connection to Nature, and a manifestation of the life-force. Many Pagans also like the colour purple for its spiritual connotations (it is associated with the crown chakra). Interestingly, purple and green were also the colours of the suffragette movement."

 

 

[BenLurkin]

It is an impressive place, but for a free people to erect a gargantuan statue of any man and then surrounding it with his words carved into the walls is grotesque and unseemly.

[soycd]

>The paint was splashed onto an organ and on the floor inside the cathedral’s historic Bethlehem Chapel

>green paint was found on the statue of Joseph Henry

Green islamo moon, Bethlehem, Joseph and her green paint under her burka while she mutters allah ackbar. Just a guess.

[Bigg Red]

Witchcraft perhaps, but what about the fact that the perp does not speak English? Are you sure it’s not some Arab junk?

[Bigg Red]

Islamic Green ? do they sell that at home depot ? or would it be called hunter green here ?

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Maybe Home Depot gives it a name like “My Jihadist Dream”.

[Bigg Red]

FoxNews.com makes no mention of the “language barrier”. What are they afraid of reporting?

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They don’t want to upset their Saudi friends.

[Salamander]

Diversity = destruction.

Type O Negative shirt.

[Salamander]

Not just any pagan, possibly Enochian.

http://www.themagickalreview.org/enochian/alphabet.php

High ritual magick.

Serious, “advanced” stuff not normally associated with hippie dippies in tie-dye.

[Salamander]

See also "Alchemy"

Alchemy originated with the Arabs.

[TribalPrincess2U]

That was the first clue for me.

[SunkenCiv]

No speak English? That means we won’t understand what you’re saying as we attach the cement blocks and push your sorry ass into the Atlantic.

[boop]

NO translators, ANYWHERE?

My thoughts exactly. Under HIPPA, as a medical provider we are obligated by law to provide a translator at our own expense, if the patient demands one.

In my 18 years as a physician, there has only been ONE language we couldn't find a translator for.

The closest we came was some obscure sub-Saharan tribal dialect that the translator herself couldn't understand.

The translator said "I am picking up a few words, but the rest, I have no idea".

[latina4dubya]

i must admit that i do not concur... but i would like to know how you feel about just his words being on display... no statue? to me, the words mean more than the statue... or the words mean more to me than does the statue... which was much larger than i expected, btw...

[PghBaldy]

We’re also talking about Washington, D.C... There happened to be scores of embassies. This isn’t some little backwater town in the hills, it is the center of the nation. I refuse to believe the could not find a translator in that city.

[Delta Dawn]

My initial thought as well. :)

[PghBaldy]

D.C. police announced Monday evening that they had charged Tian Jiamel, 58, whom they belive to be homeless, with one count of defacing property.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/green-paint-found-on-smithsonian-statue-organ-at-national-cathedral/2013/07/29/3d65169a-f884-11e2-b018-5b8251f0c56e_story_1.html