Christopher Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore, thrown into harbor

WBAL ^ | July 4, 2020 | Tre Ward

[Stravinsky]

Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it the Inner Harbor Saturday in Baltimore.

A witness said a group pulled the statue down during protests and pulled it into the harbor.

[The Toll]

Yea. It matters more than your daughters virginity. It matters!!! Way more than black lives.

[cherry]

save classical books...novel or non fiction...it would be good if some of us kept good encyclopedias around....

the internet can change EVERYTHING....

[atc23]

We’re going to have city sized autonomy zones if Trump wins in November

[atc23]

If they really want them down get a petition going This is lawlessness, mob rule, destruction of public property They have zero rights to do it and need to be stoped by any force level necessary

Trump better do something besides Twitter. He’s going to lose to Joe Biden if he doesn’t step up

[Tired of Taxes]

Were the people who toppled the statue onto his head ever arrested and charged?

My guess is they weren’t.

[centermass_socrates]

We’re going to have city sized autonomy zones if Trump wins in November

I’m blessed and happy to live in the country.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

In the “old days”, the Baltimore Mafia (which would call upon the NY Mobe families for help, would have stuffed the statue attackers down the sewer mains and let their bodies dump into the Baltimore Harbor.

Looks like Nancy “D’Alessandro” Pelosi has lost touch with her “Little Italy” mafia pals. Her brother used them to control Black rioters in Baltimore in April 1968, esp. around Lombard and Albemarle Streets that defined much of “Little Italy”.

As I recall, there were no blacks living there, ever.

[jonrick46]

I can imagine these f’d up terrorists in the prison population. The inmates will be working hard to see who can kill them first.

Lock ‘em up!

[jonrick46]

I am hoping the Trump response team has the entire gang of statue destroyers in full investigation documents. Each one will be quietly hauled out in their underwear and put in the criminal justice system. I hope this process is done quietly so that it does not alert the others to do more evasive efforts.

[jonrick46]

I saw this episode of “Adam Ruins Everything,” on Christopher Collumbus. I don’t know how much of it is hyperbole designed to make himself appear clever. It is the type of exaggeration that makes these crazed terrorists froth at the mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PQXiJiLOY

This is a more reasonable answer to Adam’s mix of misinformation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEw8c6TmzGg

This reveals the fantasy world of these statue destroyers which gives them the justification to destroy. It is sheer hysteria meant to do one thing: destroy our American Culture based upon their hateful bigotry. It is the pot calling the kettle black.

[TMN78247]

I, too, am sick of these CREEPS, CRETINS, CRIMINALS & HATERS.

WHEN are these violent criminals, who damage/tear down monuments/memorials to the dead & destroy churches/synagogues/temples/mosques/etc., going to be indicted, tried, convicted & sent to federal prison for LONG sentences??

Yours, TMN78247

[chimera]

...destroy churches/synagogues/temples/mosques/etc.,...

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Students of history will recognize the pathology that at one time led to Kristallnacht. That in turn opened the flood gates of the Holocaust. Unless these modern-day fascists are stopped, there is no reason they won't go to the next level. Mankind been down this bloody road before. It has to be stopped here before it becomes even more of a monster.

[LateBoomer]

“I have written in posts to other articles that the empty pedestals should be left standing, covered with graffiti and all, as a mark of shame for what was done and a reminder of what happens when politicians get too “woke.”

I love this idea.

[caww]

Yes, they were arrested.

[cyclotic]

The stupid racist Mayor, Prosecutor and Police Chief are still mulling over the root cause of their anger.

It’s going to get worse. The incoming mayor is a pretty boy who’s all about good optics. The prosecutor is married to the incoming President of the city council.

More of the same lunacy.

I moved to the area 11 years ago. They are on their ninth Police Commissioner since then. One is in jail for tax evasion, the rest were all fired. The one who was in lace when I moved here was relatively competent.

[xrmusn]

The ‘QUESTION/STATEMENT’ was
The Columbus Statue was not a federal monument

My ANSWER WAS

DOES IT MATTER (THAT IT IS NOT A FEDERAL STATUE/MONUMENT etc.)

BEFORE you know it ‘they’ will be raiding your neighborhood and taking manger scenes and santa clauses from YOUR front yard (OR WHATEVER YOU DEEM ‘OK’)

The MORE OUR (so called) LEADERS let them get away with, the bolder they will get and the ONLY way to put a stop to it will be MASS ARMED, NO SCHIFF RESISTANCE.

If local mayors/governors/police chiefs don’t start popping pepper spray/mace/whatever and bashing a few heads the PEOPLE will start to take over and I don’t think it will be very pretty.
(ALSO, the more the Police ‘stand down’ the less resistance there will be for defunding and cutting back because ‘we the PEOPLE’ will say don’t want to DO YOUR JOB, just turn in your gun and badge)

HOWEVER, the way a good portion ‘bowed down’ to this mask and beerflu drama it is kind of hard telling who is who.

Kind of like your neighbor ‘biatchin’ about YOU and your love for guns then ‘suing’ you when someone attacks their house and you don’t go to his aid.

Some want it both ways and I am afraid it is far too many that want to ‘sit in the middle of the road’ trying to appease whomever is in ‘power’.

Don’t forget...If you are a ‘middle of the roader’ there is a chance you will get hit from BOTH sides.

[KobraKai]

The Statue of Lenin is still standing in Seattle. Conservatives still cucking themselves.

[Ezekiel]

L’chayim to that old sea dog. (Crappy navigator though I hear)

It was all for a good cause. ;)

After all, how else that America should become analogous to Hodu, even the power thereof? That was pretty clever, Americans as Indians. Dot, or feather? Maybe that's why people can't stand the God of Abraham -- He's always got some Oddball idea up his sleeve, whereas nobody can even take a joke anymore. Instead of being tickled, many are "triggered", like with the origins of the word "gadget" (here and here).

It wasn't that long ago that Columbus was beheaded on the North End, at the park next to the Long Wharf.

Angry, resentful, hateful people sure miss out. More related examples from day one of Creation:

Bereshith = 913 = America spelled out.

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good." = 1776

"And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." = 1776

Whole numbers: 1776 ft = 541 m:

"On May 10, 2013, the final component of the skyscraper's spire was installed, making the building, including its spire, reach a total height of 1,776 feet (541 m). Its height in feet is a deliberate reference to the year when the United States Declaration of Independence was signed."

One World Trade Center

Heh, the WTC image just reminded me about David who was expert as playing with his hands. With time "on his hands" he could have not only been thinking up a little rhyme about the Ark, but dreaming about the plans for the Temple, which began with an unusually tall porch:

Here is the Temple
With a porch to the sky
When I open the doors --
All the people wave "Hi!"

:) It would go a long way in explaining why God would have chosen him above all others. David, the man after God's own heart. Just imagine what his son is like.

Day One (verses 1-5) is composed of 197 letters, and ends with the words "day one" = 1075 when spelled out, the same as Israel.

The Atomic Age was born on July 16, 1945 -- the 197th day of the year in non-leap years.

Let there be light!

gadget, from the history of use linked above...

"... a popular expression in the service for a tool or implement, the exact name of which is unknown or has for the moment been forgotten."

gadget: "a small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one."

*The* Gadget [הגאדג'ט] = 25. That should make it easy to remember for the reasons pertaining to the account of the first light*, the Ohr Mashiach. So noted as the "other uses" info. Just add 25.

gadget: "a small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one."

E=mc²

Eureka [אאורקה] = 313. "I have found." Eureka, it's even got light inside. Speaking of addresses, it reminds me of a man. What man? The man with the power... that movie clip sums this post up! Surely... Temple.

A little levity, as in why the Levites were given the charge of all things Temple. It's the simple meaning. The Levites could live anywhere they thought was good. "Join" me.

L'chaim! Because the standard formula is three "cheers" [צ'יר], which is the place the three of them [the three "tzirs"] meet, located at [0,0,0].

The three tzirs. Sounds like a bunch of wise guys if you ask me. I hope they are all good friends. What did they notice right off about the "place" (was the saloon named Cheers)? That "everybody seems so grim!"

My little Buttercup.. I. Love. You.

* The Role of the Priests

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Freee-dame]

I should have kept my set of World Book encyclopedias. I did not think about the internet’s ability to change everything.