Posted on 01/11/2021 12:02:22 PM PST by a fool in paradise
Curators are gathering posters and banners from the riot and the protests that preceded it to “help future generations remember” Jan. 6, a museum director says.
A sign that reads, “Off with their heads — stop the steal” and a small handwritten poster with the words “Trump won, swamp stole” are among dozens of objects and ephemera from pro-Trump rallies and the Capitol takeover Wednesday that are heading to the National Museum of American History, collected by curators from the division of political and military history.
The museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, announced Friday that it has begun archiving protest signs, posters and banners from protests on the National Mall and from the violent mob that stormed through the Capitol on Wednesday. Only a day after Trump supporters invaded the halls of Congress, Frank Blazich, a curator with the museum, was on the National Mall collecting ephemera from the demonstrations before the winds swept them away.
“As an institution, we are committed to understanding how Americans make change,” the museum’s director, Anthea M. Hartig, said in a statement, explaining that “this election season has offered remarkable instances of the pain and possibility involved in that process of reckoning with the past and shaping the future.”
...“Two hundred and twenty years after Jefferson was sworn in as president, the vulnerability of this legal and historic handover was revealed,” she said. “While shaken, we remain confident that a peaceful transfer of power shall yet again occur Jan. 20.”
Curators at the museum had embarked on a similar collecting expedition over the summer, acquiring signs and banners from Black Lives Matter protests to document the moment in history.
...Friday, they repeated the request for contributions, asking that photos and brief descriptions of objects be sent to 2020ElectionCollection@si.edu.
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But not photos of BLM destruction - just the happy rainbow streets
I wonder if they have stuff from the Vietnam protests of the Sixties.
Ask them if they bothered to collect images or signage from the peaceful TEA Party protests of 2010.
“here are some bricks and broken windows from mostly peaceful church burnings by Leftists last summer”
Sending one glove, all but one finger missing. Hope that helps.
Such bullshit
Wonder how the DNC/Democrat Party leadership/NY Times/WashPost/ABC/CBS/NBC/Foxnews/CNN/MSNBC/NPR Daily Gaslight conference call went this morning?
Are there any institutions the left hasn’t completely taken over?
Movie to follow. Who will they choose to play the President?
Red Nightmare (Jack Webb, ~30 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHv-83x58B8
Did they collect rubble from Portland? Seattle? Maybe homeless tent cities of San Fran?
No?
But nothing from Riots - Endless Summer.
Oh, except to show “freedom-fighters” fighting the good fight against evil white United States.
They keep the items placed at the war memorials, especially the vietnam wall, every day, for the permanent collection. Why not this event?
They’ll put on display...
Trump Hats
Flags
Posters
With media photo’s of any disinformation photo’s that depicts MAGA hat wearing people in any light as looking like insurrectionists and rioters that took DC under a day of siege.
Complete gaslight and brainwashing job to blame conservatives who will be right up there with the 1814 Burning of the capital.
These directors need to be canned also.
Get some red blooded Americans in there.
This is nonsense.
Whatever it was that happened, it wasn’t a siege.
The Woke Smithsonian needs to be purged.
Sounds like they are looking for the most provactive examples. To frame the day/event.
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