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National Archives Security Officer Fired After Telling March for Lifers to Remove Pro-Life Attire
LifeSite News ^ | 2/23/23 | Ashley Sadler

Posted on 03/01/2023 5:55:21 PM PST by marshmallow

The news comes after the National Archives was hit with a lawsuit in connection with the incident and subsequently issued a public apology.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The National Archives has fired the security supervisor who instructed March for Life participants to cover up or remove their pro-life hats and clothing, The Daily Signal reported Thursday. The news comes after Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy, both Texas Republicans, penned a letter last week demanding answers.

On January 20, just after the first March for Life since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a group of pro-lifers entered the National Archives museum where they were instructed by security officers to take off or conceal the pro-life messages on their apparel if they wanted to remain in the museum.

In a letter obtained by The Daily Signal, acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall affirmed that the incident “was contrary to NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] policy” and said the primary individual involved has been fired.

The letter came in response to a letter led by Sen. Cruz and Rep. Roy and signed by 21 Republican colleagues demanding “answers about allegations that pro-life Americans were harassed and threatened with expulsion from the National Archives Museum.”

According to Wall, the security supervisor in question was a private contractor. She said the supervisor had directed other contractors to tell the pro-lifers not to enter the museum wearing their pro-life garb.

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1 posted on 03/01/2023 5:55:21 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
Jeez! What a pant load! Why not fire the guy who instructed the security guard to bar visitors with pro-life attire????

Some poor schmuck gets fired for doing what his master and overseer told him to do.

2 posted on 03/01/2023 6:10:46 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: marshmallow

It’s a start.

Now earmark some of his pension funds to pay the lawsuit settlement (so I don’t have to)


3 posted on 03/01/2023 6:16:42 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: marshmallow
According to Wall, the security supervisor in question was a private contractor. She said the supervisor had directed other contractors to tell the pro-lifers not to enter the museum wearing their pro-life garb.

If the order did, in fact, originate with this supervisor, it’s curious no name or sex is given, or no picture. My money is on it being a liberal female, possibly LBQTwhatever.

4 posted on 03/01/2023 6:23:04 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: marshmallow

And now, how about the security nazis at the National Air and Space Museum that did the same thing?


5 posted on 03/01/2023 6:25:34 PM PST by pfflier
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To: marshmallow

No name no face pic, but no job either.
So it’s a start.


6 posted on 03/01/2023 6:42:26 PM PST by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

From the article:

“LifeSiteNews previously reported that, on the same day, another group of pro-lifers were told to remove or cover their pro-life apparel while on-site at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

Responding to requests for answers from Republican lawmakers, the Smithsonian agreed that the directives were wrong but suggested that nobody would be losing their jobs for it.”

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So, the one firing was to squelch a lawsuit. Nobody should as suing over the prior violations. Disgusting.


7 posted on 03/01/2023 6:45:02 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: lee martell

“ No name no face pic, but no job either.
So it’s a start.”

That way they can be rehired next week and we are no more the wiser.


8 posted on 03/01/2023 6:45:45 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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To: marshmallow

Adios azho.


9 posted on 03/01/2023 6:48:40 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: Clay Moore

Transparency be damned!!!!!!

“They” take us for dumb losers. Let’s prove them wrong.

Demand the name and picture.


10 posted on 03/01/2023 6:53:55 PM PST by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: marshmallow

Not good enough. Sue that person as an individual for violating the pro-lifers’ civil rights and take this criminals money.


11 posted on 03/01/2023 6:56:03 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Clay Moore

Probably so!


12 posted on 03/01/2023 7:32:40 PM PST by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

Her termination was NOT enough. Just firing these people is NOT enough!!! Something MUST be done which puts the absolute fear of God into people so they do not repeat this type of behavior!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


13 posted on 03/01/2023 7:50:31 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Clay Moore
That way they can be rehired next week and we are no more the wiser.

Exactly. No picture, name or any way to ID this person to make sure they do not get a responsible job ever again for having done this.

14 posted on 03/01/2023 7:51:51 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: jacknhoo

“Fired” and “No Job” simply means, in communist-speak, surreptitiously transferred to another position where publicly enforcing communist dogma is Ok...


15 posted on 03/01/2023 8:30:39 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They fired the SUPERVISOR who issued the order.


16 posted on 03/02/2023 6:41:05 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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