In the wake of last night's demonstrations, there are numerous instances of vandalism to sites around the National Mall. For generations the Mall has been our nation’s premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition. pic.twitter.com/LmIHfW2AHj
— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) May 31, 2020
June 1, 2020
"For generations the Mall has been our nation’s premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition."
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Pretty please?
Verse and penmanship of white kids.
It's disappointing, but at least this is only going to cost a bunch of money to fix, and as far as I'm aware, no one was hurt in DC. Could be wrong; not caught up on the news yet.
Graffiti, like looting and burning, is not a legitimate form of protest. These mayors who, like that whack job in Baltimore after Freddy Gray, stand down their police and allow rioting to “blow off steam” always cede control to Antifa and allow insurrection. Few of these Blue City Mayors had “allowed” a return to normal and so had stoked this frustration that bursts out from a restrained and angry and anxious populace. Insurance doesn’t cover riots. People will take up arms if local officials cannot restore order. We are at that point. Trump is done if he dies not follow through and decapitate Antifa and the domestic terrorists who fund it. The Progressives have declared war on America.
For generations the Mall has been our nation’s premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition.
They're asking us to carry on the tradition of gathering? So I take it social distancing is over?
Leftists - making the world uglier and shittier every day. They want the entire country to look like a public restroom.
It is a dilemma for some individuals.
Is the destruction of property to be applauded or condemned?
Is it fair to burn only certain people’s houses and businesses at this time, based on colour of skin?
Moreover, is it ok if some people burn things, but not other people?
Asked these questions last week. Wait a day. Ask the same questions. Wait two days. Ask again.
A continued variance on the first question, certainly, should clarify with whom you are discussing things.
Know who is prepared to discuss matters in good faith, and who is prepared to act in bad faith.
I honor and respect that the black community witnessed a black man removed from his car, be held down with a knee on his neck for 9 minutes surrounded by 4 police officers, and die at the hands of police. And then those same police took days to be fired and then arrested and charged. I can feel the pain that has caused, the outrage. And I can understand it.
The looting, rioting, destruction of personal property, and defacement of major symbols and ideals like the WWII memorial and Lincoln memorial is not about Floyd and racial injustice. It doesn't recognize WWII was a fight against fascism and nationalism and that Lincoln and the Lincoln memorial are a testament to a President who literally risked the country on Civil War to end slavery.
The riots and attacks on police, city center governments (mostly democratic party institutions), and US history sites are about hatred of America today.
There have always been those who hate their country. What concerns me is the sheer size and spread and quantity of those ready to tear down their countries institutions without a clear "What comes next."
Riot and revolt doesn't usually have a good outcome when it's simply an expression of rage without a goal.
The Park Police didn't have anyone posted there at night, with vandalism all over the country?
Y'all is a term liberal whites like to use when they want to communicate to black people. Or to impersonate them...
I'd bet black lawyers employed by the federal government did that. The person who's going to clean it is also black, but without an affirmative action job.
It honors the life and memory of George Floyd, who was apparently a useless lowlife himself.
Hey, wait a minute. Chris Cuomo told us a few years ago that Antifa is akin to the troops who landed at Normandy - because, get this, Antifa is "anti-fascist" just like the Allies in WWII. Heck, it's right in the title! I've seen that claim repeated by leftists dozens of times on Twitter over the last few days.
So why are the "anti-fascists" defacing WWII memorials?
North Korea calls itself a "Democratic Republic." That's about as accurate as Antifa's claim to be anti-fascist.
Did you see the UAB professor giving twitter advice on how to take down the Washington Monument?
https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1267314810145976323
"The Park Police didn't have anyone posted there at night, with vandalism all over the country?"
-- Unless they were going to allow the Park Police to use force, it was the right call.
Young people have been told (by teachers, pop culture, etc.) that the '60s were great. Not terribly surprising that they now want a taste.
In Madison, the rioters spray painted the downtown statue of Christian Hegg, a man who literally gave his life in the Civil War trying to free black people from slavery. That level of ignorance is astounding.
Leave the graffiti there. Let the citizenry remove it if they want.
Nobody tell Freeman Hunt.
"For generations the Mall has been our nation’s premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition."
Well, isn't that nice and civil.
So, if public authorities meet destructive incivility with weak calls for civility, is that a new form of civility bullshit?
Indonesia handed down a death sentence on George Soros after trying him in absentia. It would be swell if Con Law professors could figure out a way to send him there. Besides a ticketing mixup.
"... we ask individuals to carry on that tradition."
I think that ship has sailed. I think it's time to try the "Vandals of our great memorials will be shot on sight" approach.
What would really help, of course, is a dramatic sign language interpreter. Maybe that would cause the rioters and vandals to listen.
Yes, a lot of this tagging -- like most of the destruction in the rioting -- is being done by white leftists, both men and women.
And at least some of the legitimate black protesters are calling them out and demanding that they stop.
Unless they were going to allow the Park Police to use force, it was the right call.
Deterrence and tazers.
Gramsci, wherever he is, is so proud of these people.
I'm reminded of a scene from Among the Thugs, about soccer hooligans in the early 90's. There was a riot in Italy. No reason, just for fun. At first, the Italian police took a "boys will be boys" attitude and did little to contain the destruction. But when they got tired of watching the destruction wrought by those boys being boys, the disrespect for their community and their architectural and historical legacy, they decided the boys had been boys long enough and the truncheons flew.
It's time for the truncheons.
Calypso Facto said...In Madison, the rioters spray painted the downtown statue of Christian Hegg, a man who literally gave his life in the Civil War trying to free black people from slavery. That level of ignorance is astounding.
As is the case on so many things, the true culprit is the educational system.
No rehajm, "Y'all" is an expression used by Southerners of all races and classes; it is per se distinct from the bs accents adopted by Ds when they need to patronize black Americans.
Admittedly, the WWII memorial in DC is an appalling cultural-historical crime in itself, but the graffiti does not improve it, and will cost money to remove.
I've concluded, after a working life in history and historical preservation and interpretation, that we should no longer bother making monuments and memorials.
They'll just be trashed later, by homegrown barbarians.
Narr
We all doomed
Blogger tim maguire said...
As is the case on so many things, the true culprit is the educational system.
Thank-you for that.
What you see is the handy work of university professors, 40 years in the making.
As the case on so many things, the ones we are told are the most respected and revered among us are the ones doing the most harm.
It's time to take a stand.
"Y'all not tired yet?" - Anonymous rioter
"I don't feel no ways tired" - Hillary Clinton
it is per se distinct from the bs accents adopted by Ds when they need to patronize black Americans
A meaningless distinction of usage in this context.
These people are why we can't have nice things.
Blogger tim maguire said..."...As is the case on so many things, the true culprit is the educational system..." Yes, so true, yet 'Progressives' are beholden to the teachers union yet send their kids to private prep-schools.
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