Posted on 08/28/2021 9:41:44 PM PDT by artichokegrower
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — According to Santa Cruz Police chief Andy Mills, the Mission Bell at Soquel and Dakota has been stolen.
The bell went missing before there was to be a removal ceremony for it on Saturday by the Amah Mutsun tribe and the city on Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksbw.com ...
My first thought as well. Better to secret it away and perhaps save it for saner times (if any ever come) than to let it fall into the hands of the New Iconoclasts.
“The bells, the bells, I can’t stand the bells …”
So a bell is racist? People have gone off the deep end with all this.
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
The missions were. I don’t see why all of the California cities names after or related to the Spanish missions aren’t renamed immediately. Santa Cruz? Definitely racist.
Sacrilege. They will pay.
Wish I hadn’t read that article.
So sick of these “native American” harpy goons and their grievance mongering.
Maybe start smashing up THEIR culture and icons.
Two can play .... right?
Yes, you see, a bell signifies civilization
Indians toiled for the mission and gained thereby protection (and for women and children, rights and ancestral identity as births, marriages and deaths were duly recorded). Whereas the alternate was back to hunting, gathering, war between tribes of less than 60, seasonal starvation, drought and no rights for women who were frequently kidnapped as a means of acquiring a wife and who prior to mission work, did 99% of the labor
Or tweakers taking it to the scrap years to buy more meth
Don Henley would not be happy.
“Holy Cross” honestly I don’t know how they can stand to live in a city with such a name
Do you put it in your pocket and walk off?]
Since it’s gone then why do they still need a ceremony?
Amazes me how all of the virtue signaling removals don’t cost the taxpayers a dime. sarcasm/
I still want to see the one person out there that any of those removals has made their life better. You think the media would have him or her on the news as often as possible.
Have you ever heard mission bells ringing
Well she’ll give you the very same glow
When she speaks you would think it was singing
Just hear her say hello
Nancy (with the Laughing Face)
Maybe.
But have you priced ANY bell?
“Maybe. But have you priced ANY bell?”
Happened near my old place... Tweakers stole a statue and tried to sell it off as scrap metal. “Oh yeah... I just happened to have this old Injun statue in the garage and didn’t know what to do with it...)
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Sacagawea statue found at Bend scrap metal yard
Published: Jan. 26, 2008, 3:26 p.m.
By Kay Mitchell, The Oregonian
A statue of Sacagawea and her baby that was stolen earlier this month from Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park near Astoria was found at a scrap metal dealer in Bend.
Three Bend residents were arrested Thursday for the theft.
The 5 1/2-foot statue of Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was taken from the park’s Nateul Landing sometime last weekend. On Tuesday, a Bend scrap metal dealer notified police about suspicious metal his business had just received. Bend police identified the metal as the missing statue.
The following day, the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office learned that someone had tried to sell the statue at a scrap metal yard in the Portland area. An investigation with the Bend Police Department identified four suspects.
Bend police arrested James P. Storms, 44, and John A. Kristiansen, 45, during a traffic stop Thursday. A third suspect, Shawna D. Roberson, 42, was taken into custody a short time later. Each faces a charge of aggravated first-degree theft by receiving. Kristiansen also is charged with possession of a controlled substance.
— Holley Gilbert; holleygilbert@news.oregonian.com“
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