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.
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Man, that’s a place on my bucket list I’d like to see. The Florida Keys. Angling for tarpon and bonefish. I’m on the AL/GA border, so I could do the drive in about 12 or 13 hours.
Pelosi, of Baltimore’s Little Italy, has betrayed her own people (which is nothing new to her corrupt family including her brother, who sold out the Jewish businesses to black rioters during the 1968 riots that destroyed scores of small Jewish owned businesses while protecting the black rioters (according to police/fire intelligence reports).
The mayor of Baltimore is just another racially corrupt black POS (his predecessors are either in jail, were forced out for corruption or became a Marxist like O’Malley).
All references to the D’Alessandro family (Pelosi’s maiden family name), should be erased from Little Italy like the Italian Resistance did to Mussolini, his whore mistress and statues.
My mother was born on the same street as Pelosi, but on the Jewish side of Albermarle back when Jews and Italians were good neighbors. Loved to eat at Maria’s (a real Italian mama, all 250 lbs of her but a great hostess) and Vellegios.
The old Baltimore Mafia, which ran The Block (Strip joints) were 2nd or 3rd tier gumbas, low-keyed so as to avoid much federal scrutiny. I was told that a girl I went swimming with at Milford Mill quarry was the daughter of the Baltimore mob in the 60’s. Don’t know.
There was only one known mafia hit in Baltimore that I know of from an Organized Crime Task Force I worked on. An honest official of the NY Mob-controlled Laborers International Union of North America who got two in the back of the head or the back and stuffed in a car trunk there.
For details on the Clintons/Democrats and the Mob/money and LIUNA, see “The American Spectator”, April 1977, Byron York, “Let’s Be Friends: A Mob-Controlled Union Delivers the Goods for Bill” (and Hillary and the DSCC).
However, during the 1968 riots, according to my intel sources, the “Italians” told the black rioters that they had better not touch any Italian store and when the smashed in the window of the Italian grocery at the corner of E. Lombard Street and Albermarle, the perps apologized to the owner saying “You weren’t supported to be hit” (i.e. only the Jews such at Attmann’s Deli, Atlantic Import, Silvers’ Bakery, Stones Bakery, the kosher chicken place, Tulkoff’s Horseradish store, etc.
I have along memory of that area since I was literally raised down there on weekends and our family store was just a block away from it. Great 25 and 35 cents kosher corned beef sandwiches and Kosher Hot Dogs wrapped in Kosher Bologna, also 25 cents, kosher pickles, fish, great rye bread, bagels, knishes, etc.
All gone thanks to the corrupt Marxist and black lack of leadership and some anti-Semitism that, with a small hiatus under Mayor Schaeffer (a family friend), that quietly made a lot of East Baltimore “Juden Frei” (Jew Free - just like the Nazis did 30 years earlier).
Today Baltimore is a black gangs/criminals/corrupt politicians playground and the honest, hardworking blacks are the ones getting robbed, shot and killed (since the Jews and many white Catholics aren’t around to play human targets).
Sometimes the TRUTH is stranger than Fiction, and in the major Democrat run and ruined major cities of America, this is truer today than at any time in America’s past (Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia (where I lived while attending college), NY City, Cleveland, Minneapolis, St. Louis/E. St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, and Chicago.
NEED I GO ON?
ping!
They could make a non-threatening statue of a giant pigeon.
Chris’ real name “Colombo” literally means “Pigeon” in Italian.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
So I’m an hour away from the District of Pigeons???
(Heaven only knows, there are enough pigeons in DC!)
Anything named Columbia can keep its name, just as long as it states that it means “Land of Pigeons”.
I have heard firsthand accounta of the orchestrated destructionn in 1968 of that same Baltimore neighborhood that includes Attman’s Deli, Johns Hopkins Hospital, etc. Trucks loaded with bricks kept appearing all day long, day after day, with people on the trucks giving out the bricks and telling people what to do with them. The same political group who orchestrated that are orchestrating what we are witnessing today.
PLEASE DO NOT VANDALIZE THIS STATUE”
I would rather call in an outside hit woman Bevelyn Beatty because she’s the only with enough balls to get the job done. ONE BLACK WOMAN backed everyone down with action. Everyone else chirp,chirp and chirp myself included.
One mold can be reused and the light, empty shells can be shipped easily around the country and filled with sand on site. (much like they do with water or sand filled highway barriers)
The more the rioters destroy them, the more they multiply.
Dogs would be great. Except for visitors.
I’ve often proposed German Shepherds on duty free-range for protecting graveyards.
Put a fence around monuments and a dog house, and certain demographics won’t dare because they’re terrified of them.
OMG, this means the communist Nirvana of Maryland just to the west, COLUMBIA, will have to change its name!!
I like “KOLUMBIA”.
Actually, I rather like that idea.
Perhaps we can start making molds of hated figures (which is most everyone) and pop them up everywhere around the country.
Mocking, taunting them.
Or maybe Grey Skittles Town.
Maybe they can get that great American of Italian ancestry and Baltimore bred, Speaker Nancy Pelosi to dedicate the statue.
And rig it to poop on any would-be vandals.
The ensuing hilarity would be therapeutic for the nation as a whole.
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