Posted on 01/19/2016 1:48:47 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Symbolism doesn't get much more chilling than this. Serious efforts are underway to abrogate the First and Second Amendments, in the name of "campaign finance reform" and "commonsense gun safety" - both euphemisms masking the tyrannical impulses of the left.
At such a time, to demolish the site where the Bill of Rights were first proposed is unnerving, to say the least. But government incompetence, rather than some sinister plot, seems to be at the root of it. Phyllis Zimmerman of The Sentinel of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania reports:
On Jan. 6, workers began demolishing a two-story stone house at 7086 Carlisle Pike in Silver Spring Township that most recently was the site of Stone House Auto Sales.
This just isn't any stone house, however. Built in 1780 as the James Bell Tavern, the structure hosted the Stony Ridge Convention on July 3, 1788, a meeting of Anti-Federalists opposed to ratification of U.S. Constitution, which led to amending the document with the Bill of Rights.
Triple Crown Corporation, the property's owner, legally obtained a permit from the township for the demolition, according to Christine Musser, a member of the township’s Conservation and Preservation Committee.
Musser said she was informed about the stone house’s history by an "outside source." After "doing some digging" about the matter at the Cumberland County Historical Society, she alerted township officials about the matter.
Demolition of the historic structure was "put on hold" and discontinued on Jan. 7, Musser said. To her estimation, about a third of the building was demolished during the initial process.
I guess that leaves 6.6 amendments' worth of the building left. What does it say about us that nobody realized the significance of this site?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What does it say about us?
It says that we have finally been dumbed down to where they need us to be.
A symbol of the every growing attempts to destroy the Bill of Rights.
Stone building where Bill of Rights was proposed and signed is partially demolished before anyone realized its historic significance.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Founding Fathers/Revolutionary War interest ping list.
Completely symbolic of the Obama era.
Lot’s of stories out there where demolition crews don’t check and double check before tearing down a building.
The date range are wrong
BOR: 1788-2007
What are they going to build there? A Taco-Bell restaurant?
But on the upside, soon there will be a shiny new Taco Bell in town...
unbelievable.
Absolutely unbelievable. It should have been on a historic register of some sort; no one knew its value? Even the age of it and its obviously good condition ought to have been enough to save it.
How symbolic of our times.
This building must be restored!
Nah there’s still a two party system ...
Im always critical on England when they designate historic buildings that cannot be touched. And they go too far.
But then I see things like this.
The owner was tearing down a 1700s house to probably build a Taco bell or something.
Save the lectures.
I says even more when worthless people send their kids to the government to be “educated”.
Only a sorry, godless person would dare do such a thing.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
And for that matter, the Bill of Rights must be restored!
Or a Mosque.
Cery fitting for Obamantion.
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