“It would be totally wrong to electrify statues of Columbus with high-voltage current.”
I agree completely. It’s the amperage that counts.
Right off the UIC (Univ. of IL at Chicago) campus, in a little park located in what remains of the Little Italy neighborhood adjacent to the campus, is a beautiful statue of Columbus centered in a small circular fountain pool. I used to drive over there and park my car on the small dead end street leading up to the park to eat my lunch while looking at the lovely fountain.
There are still architecturally beautiful row homes lining the park on one side where wealthy Italians lived (or still live). On the other side of the park is the beginning of the south side ghettos, where black gangs hang out; however they never cross over the invisible line in the park where the Italians hold sway, as the neighborhood still has a considerable amount of Italian mafia members as residents, and the black gangs don’t want to mess with them for fear of big-time retaliation by these tough Italians in the hood. So it’s (pardon the expression) a Mexican standoff (or should I say Italian).
I fear for that wonderful Columbus statue’s existence, as the UIC campus and local community communist/pinko/fascist/Dem/leftist/socialist morons are right there next to the park, and will undoubtedly target it for attack.
I live in Florida now (thank goodness) but I retired from working at UIC some years back and still have a strong affinity for Chicago’s old ethnic neighborhoods with their churches and monuments and general architecture that make Chicago such a fascinating city in spite of its corrupt politician created troubles.
It’s sad what is happening to Chicago under Obama’s butt boy Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s destructive regime. And the police force there has been totally neutered by the City’s politics; their hands are tied. Watching the ruin of the historically rich City of Chicago by a bunch of socialist slimeballs and their ideology of destruction is most upsetting.