Posted on 06/24/2020 9:10:36 AM PDT by tapatio
Hundreds of troops with the Washington, D.C., National Guard have mobilized to protect monuments in the nation's capital, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News on Wednesday.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt requested the action earlier this week, as protesters target statues and other historical markers during ongoing demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd's police custody death in Minneapolis at the end of May.
TRUMP ISSUES WARNING AMID VANDALISM, EFFORT TO TOPPLE ANDREW JACKSON STATUE
Protesters on Monday attempted to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square by the White House, and defaced it with the phrase "killer scum," Reuters reported. Berhardt said afterward that he visited Lafayette Square and witnessed the destruction. He said the country “will not bow to anarchists," and that "law and order will prevail, and justice will be served.”
The Lincoln Memorial and WWII Memorial were also defaced in earlier protests.
During a protest on Tuesday that took place in front of D.C. Emancipation Memorial, one demonstrator announced that on Thursday they would tear down the memorial's statue of Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave.
President Trump warned Tuesday morning that anyone caught vandalizing monuments or any other federal property would be subject to arrest and face up to 10 years in prison under federal law.
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, meanwhile, announced a more formal measure against the Emancipation Memorial, stating that she will introduce a bill calling for the statue to be removed from its home in Lincoln Park and placed in a museum.
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Apparently you missed the article this morning...
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With all due respect, your post #5 is off-base. mumblypeg Is correct. Yes, FDR was far from perfect. But if you can find reasons to deface his monument, then you are morally equivalent to those folks who are finding reasons to deface those other monuments. Upon reconsideration, I hope you can see that.
Liberals who don’t like Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, etc. should simply not visit their statues. Look the other way. I would think that advice should hold with FDR too.
how convenient
That is because this is about destroying this country.George Floyd was just a catalyst to their ultimate desire.
Ditto That!
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Kicking the Constitution to the curb in favor of Arbitrary government is not enough for you?
Break up his monument and install a public toilet.
That’s unarmed National Guard. Bet the other side will have weapons of course
Exactly. Although I’d probably want to tear them down.
I’d be down for historic blacks who did real useful things. Booker Washington and his associate George Washington Carver (OMG! How could a black be named for a racist?!). Our own local Benjamin Banneker (though he’s 1/4 white).
Every time I hear the clueless news jerks refer to antifa domestic terrorists as “protesters,” I’m hoping they get beat up by one of these “protesters.” Maybe some common sense will sink in.
Your links don’t work.
I agree generally.
BUT, would you honestly say this in Iraq with SoDamn Insane? Were those people bad in tearing it down? How about various communist leaders around the world and their statues?
But absolutely, there is no reason to wantonly deface and destroy lawfully placed statues IN THIS COUNTRY. This country does not deserve such treatment.
at the very least, FDR seemed to love this country, if only being very wrong. These days, I do not for one second believe liberals love this country, rather hate it.
Even if they had arms, they’d probably never use them. Just hoping their visual would deter.
Sends some rounds into these effs and this shit would stop or we would put an end to it
“There has to be thousands of cameras in DC so why not arrest these turds.”
Seditious communists once arrested should be sent to Gitmo to await trial for treason.
All of these actions are only incurring in like 90+ percent Democrat cities noticed that?
Please find me any 50-50 city even or any Republican town were one single anything has been vandalized
You won’t
The rioters the looters the Aircast interview all of them 100% of them are either not going to vote because they hate America that much or they’re voting Democrat
All of these actions are only incurring in like 90+ percent Democrat cities noticed that?
Please find me any 50-50 city even or any Republican town were one single anything has been vandalized
You won’t
The rioters the looters the Aircast interview all of them 100% of them are either not going to vote because they hate America that much or they’re voting Democrat
There are dozens of reasons why FDR was a bad president. Dozens. In my opinion, the worst was how he greatly expanded the power of the federal government. Before FDR, the federal government was small, and limited. But now...you know the rest.
However, FDR did one thing that was really great. He rallied the nation to defeat both Tojo and Hitler. Before then, wars were fought in this manner: Both sides would maneuver back and forth (sometimes for years). And then a peace treaty would be signed.
Nope, said FDR. Both Tojo and Hitler have got to go. I give FDR great credit for that. He deserves a statue. (Even though Stalin took advantage of him at the end.)
It’s kinda like with Jefferson. The anarchists focus on his shortcomings, and ignore the great things he did.
They ate unarmed, per the Pentagram.
Forget it. The media would report it as a “peaceful beatdown”.
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