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Baltimore’s Italian American Community Plans New Statue to Honor Columbus
Crux ^ | 7/22/20 | Tim Swift

Posted on 07/22/2020 6:35:53 PM PDT by marshmallow

BALTIMORE — Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, members of the city’s Italian American community are developing a plan to reproduce the marble monument so it can be displayed in a more secure location.

Grand Knight Santo Grasso, of the Knights of Columbus St. Vincent Pallotti Council No. 14535, said community members retrieved the statue from the Inner Harbor a few days after it was vandalized July 4. Broken into three pieces, however, it cannot be restored.

“Everybody was upset,” said Grasso, a parishioner of St. Leo the Great Church in Little Italy.

“It was devastating because we had talked with the city. We were trying to negotiate with the city two weeks before this happened about protecting the statue until we could figure out what to do with it. And the city failed us,” he told the Catholic Review, the news outlet of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Baltimore Mayor Jack Young has denounced the toppling and vowed the perpetrators would be brought to justice, but videos of the incident show police officers choosing not to intervene as the statue came down.

Then-President Ronald Reagan and Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer dedicated the artwork in a 1984 ceremony that also included Baltimore Archbishop William D. Borders. The statue had been funded by the Italian American community.

(Excerpt) Read more at cruxnow.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: columbus; italianlivesmatter
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1 posted on 07/22/2020 6:35:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Whatever you do, don’t put the new statue on public property.


2 posted on 07/22/2020 6:38:53 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: marshmallow

The savages who did it will never be brought to justice. They’ve been randomly terrorizing Inner Harbor for years. It used to be such a beautiful place.


3 posted on 07/22/2020 6:40:14 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: marshmallow

I sincerely appreciate their efforts. However,there’s no such thing as a more secure location within Baltimore city limits.


4 posted on 07/22/2020 6:40:25 PM PDT by stevecmd
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To: marshmallow

Maybe they could put fences with spikes on top around monuments and statues?

It would be ugly, but put fences with concertina wire on top around these locations?

Perhaps have some guard dogs living at these locations?


5 posted on 07/22/2020 6:45:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: marshmallow

Good. Make it impregnable.


6 posted on 07/22/2020 6:46:00 PM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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To: marshmallow

They should display the busted statue on Church grounds. Let the parishioners see how liberal the society has become. They’ll feel proud.


7 posted on 07/22/2020 6:46:39 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: MrChips

>>Good. Make it impregnable.<<

Give it 1st strike capabilities,


8 posted on 07/22/2020 6:48:34 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Viking2002

I remember a business trip to Baltimore, including the Inner Harbor, back in the 90s.

Good food. Good beer. Good time.

All gone now, maybe forever.


9 posted on 07/22/2020 6:49:17 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: freedumb2003

Mount rockets to his head....
AND USE THEM!


10 posted on 07/22/2020 6:51:40 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: marshmallow

Have the artist wire it with explosives so if anyone attempts to pull it down they will be blown to Mars.


11 posted on 07/22/2020 6:59:24 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Not one politician or journalist has died of Covid)
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To: marshmallow

I wish them luck. But no matter how sincere and good at planning they are, the lefties will overcome them, even on private property, and there is not a thing they can do about it because law and order is no longer with us in leftist shitholes like Baltimore.


12 posted on 07/22/2020 7:00:06 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: redfreedom

Maybe the Goombahs should break a few heads.

That’s what they would have done in the old days.

Might have saved the original statue, too.


13 posted on 07/22/2020 7:07:01 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: marshmallow

Hopefully, Trump-hating Bishop Lori won’t shut them down.


14 posted on 07/22/2020 7:07:45 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: elcid1970

they weren’t expecting it. Other statues were protected. They will be prepared in the future and if I have to drive there myself with my bat I’ll take shifts


15 posted on 07/22/2020 7:14:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: Nothingburger

My aunt and uncle lived maybe 20 minutes to the west, out in the ‘burbs where it was safe back in the day. I took both my wives on dates to Inner Harbor (not to mention a few other lady friends). Fells Point was always a go-to for me, as well as the aquarium, science center, Harborplace, bobbing from one point to another on a Water Taxi. I may never see it again in my lifetime, but I’m glad I have the memories of what it was like then, not what it’s become now. I have no compassion for the rioting ferals, or whatever end they might meet.


16 posted on 07/22/2020 7:16:44 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: marshmallow

Good. Will it be made available to shove up Nancy Pelosi’s behind?

Sorry, not sorry.


17 posted on 07/22/2020 7:32:57 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Don't make it complicated..the I-talians need to go back to their Roots....

Put the statue back and post a small sign next to it with a pictures of a few old Mafia hits...

The sign should read:

“PLEASE DO NOT VANDALIZE THIS STATUE”

as my old uncle Guido said..Its amazing what a Please and Thank-You can accomplish...Every one respected Uncle Guidos opinion..the ones that didn't...must have moved away...they never showed up at his funeral........../s

18 posted on 07/22/2020 7:33:26 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: Viking2002

Thanks for your story.

What can I say? I would like to live in an historic old city up north, but I thank the Lord daily that I’m in sunny Southwest Florida, where things are still quiet and orderly, the Wu flu notwithstanding.


19 posted on 07/22/2020 7:48:42 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: dp0622

PING!


20 posted on 07/22/2020 7:56:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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