Posted on 06/12/2020 10:48:37 AM PDT by C19fan
The graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial and World War II Memorial has received the most attention, but a total of 12 statues and memorials were defaced by vandals during recent rioting that spread to the National Mall, according to the National Park Service. The other monuments vandalized were the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and the U.S. Navy Memorial, as well as eight statues, including the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India’s nonviolent independence movement.
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The statues damaged were those honoring American Revolutionary War heroes John Barry and Casimir Pulaski, as well as Civil War military figures David Farragut, James McPherson and George Thomas, all of whom fought for the Union forces. Statues of U.S. statesman Daniel Webster and Anglo-Irish statesman/philosopher Edmund Burke were also defaced.
Not surprised at this because we know what type of people are doing this.
People who are just like the cultural revolutionaries of China or the Khmer Rouge or the Taliban.
Do nothing but allow us to add the Confederates in the same breath as exemplars of Western Civilization. They have redeemed the Confederacy. Let us thank them for this.
The statues damaged were those honoring American Revolutionary War heroes John Barry and Casimir Pulaski, as well as Civil War military figures David Farragut, James McPherson and George Thomas, all of whom fought for the Union forces. Statues of U.S. statesman Daniel Webster and Anglo-Irish statesman/philosopher Edmund Burke were also defaced.
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“Who controls the past controls the future... ...who controls the present controls the past.” from “1984”
— GeorgeOrwell
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street building renamed, every date altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has been stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
— GeorgeOrwell
We have always been at war with ________________ (fill in the blank).
There has always been raciam against ____________ (fill in the blank).
The Democrat Party has always stood against social injustice (latest spin to change history).
Why not pass a law demanding that anyone belonging to a political party that in the past supported the Confederacy, Jim Crow Laws, and lynchings be removed from office, and require to make amends.
Instead the socialist/fascist/Antifa are trying to destroy anyone or anything that offends their agenda.
Everybody be sure to thank Nikki Haley for kicking off this frenzy of history erasing.
She is Indian and has no connection to America except for being born here.
The founders wisely excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause.
Too bad not ONE of our elected or appointed would uphold it.
All of this is directly attributable to Usurpation Day.
I’m rather amazed that the Jackson statue survived this episode. Must have had some special protections around it.
Still, mess with von Steuben, you mess with me, dammit!
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