Said Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), quoted in "National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese detention/The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove 'improper partisan ideology' from federal institutions."
You have beautiful places, the best land and rocks and trees and waters of America, and because people want to come see these wonders of nature, you see it as opportunity to interpose human messages — negative, downer messages, propaganda — on eyesore signs. Let visitors think their own thoughts, read their own books, and speak to each other about what they think. That's the better free speech and shared education, not the speech by the government that is installed in the form of inert signs.
Pingree complains that the new policy is "trying to dumb everyone down and... not letting you read a simple sign." But if I'm here for the landscape and the government has put up a political education sign, it's not letting me not see the government's speech. And when I do see it, it's not letting me see the larger context or the other side of the story the government has chosen to tell. The fewer signs the better. And if the government does choose to clutter the view with signs, it ought to make a good choice about what simple message to convey. Presumably, any sign dumbs down the story. Pingree must know that her statement deserves to be construed as a demand to control the way the message is dumbed down. Why should her side write the signs and not Trump?
That's the side that won the election, so it gets to speak. If you don't like that, at least appreciate the Trump isn't putting up signs saying global warming is a hoax. It's an anti-sign policy.
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What would Chellie Pingree scream if the walkway to Old Faithful was festooned with signs mourning Charlie Kirk --- "The whoosh and roar you hear is like the sound of the rifle shot that Democrat fired into Charlie Kirk."
Agree 100%. The National Park Service has literally littered our magnificent public lands with all sorts of propaganda for the left. It seems to be a haven for Green New Deal zealots.
Now please do an Executive Order banning "land acknowledgements" by public officials.
1984 really is a how to manual for them, yes EO 1066 signed by your favorite president interned a whole class of people,
without any distinction to their potential threat
This could use a Five Man Electrical Band video.
The Left is so authoritarian and selective. They don’t find beauty in the farm ground of Knox and Burt counties in Nebraska. They want to destroy those beautiful places with wind turbines and solar panels. All to solve the imaginary problem of climate change.
Last week I gave the OPPD Board three minutes on how they are the marks in the biggest scam in the history of the world. I quoted from David Mamet’s latest book “The Disenlightment” and used his great phrase: the Left wants the luxury to refrain from doing the math.
The people who think they are the smartest people in the room have never done the math.
inconvenient facts like a 1000 years ago, the Earth was hot hotter than it is now, must have been those horse drawn SUV's
The federal government is removing its own signs, and it's an assault on Chellie Pingree's free speech rights? Because they are not letting her read the signs the federal government put up?
Wow.
Thanks for this post, Ann. I live in Maine where the one-sided media avoids criticism of this nature and most of the state's residents will never hear of issues such as you have raised. Leftist propaganda is seen often in state government buildings and offices, whereas anyone suggesting that markets and capitalism be extolled in the state's department of economic development would be castigated. Go figure.
“…Japanese detention…”
If they mentioned Japanese-American internment, they should also mention Italian-American and German-American internment as well, too.
And “detention” makes it sound like they were simply kept after school.
I suggest the people who are unhappy about this should all go stand together outside the gate of their favorite national park wearing nothing but bedsheets, chanting in unison, "Give us a sign. Give us a sign."
yes but FDR had a particularly animus, toward Japanese Americans
Not everything is a Constitutional question. The people elect representatives who decide what signs to post in the Parks. For that and other reasons the people may choose to elect new representatives who change the signs. I am simplifying the process of course. But that is how it is supposed to work.
Althouse said...
"You have beautiful places, the best land and rocks and trees and waters of America, and because people want to come see these wonders of nature, you see it as opportunity to interpose human messages — negative, downer messages, propaganda — on eyesore signs."
Eric S. Raymond on “Gramscian Damage,” linked on Instapundit yesterday...
But the Soviets, following the lead of Marxist theoreticians like Antonio Gramsci, took very seriously the idea that by blighting the U.S.’s intellectual and esthetic life, they could sap Americans’ will to resist Communist ideology and an eventual Communist takeover. The explicit goal was to erode the confidence of America’s ruling class and create an ideological vacuum to be filled by Marxism-Leninism.
I didn’t vote for that sign.
the OVRA should have shot anyone trying to smuggle Gramscis notebooks out,
narciso said...
“inconvenient facts like a 1000 years ago, the Earth was hot hotter than it is now, must have been those horse drawn SUV's.” (emphasis added).
Inconvenient Truth indeed. Anyone who’s been around freshly produced manure knows it’s warm, if not hot. And there were many, many, many horses then. Horses that would produce steaming piles of global warming on a massive scale.
similarly the Soviets really didn't concern themselves with the plight of African Americans, but they served as an important lumpenproletariat, like the subject nationalities of Central Asia,
Bob Boyd said...
“I suggest the people who are unhappy about this should all go stand together outside the gate of their favorite national park wearing nothing but bedsheets, chanting in unison, "Give us a sign. Give us a sign."
Plus or minus? I’d suggest the latter.
The signs do not seemed to have helped Rep. Chellie Pingree, (D-Maine), as she seems pretty dumbed down.
The world’s leading scholar on Gramsci was Pete Butegig’s dad.
To a battle of wits, Chellie Pingree comes unarmed.
yes but he was second generation on that score,
Sign, sign, everywhere, a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
"Do this," "Don't do that"
Can't you read the sign?
She looks exactly how I imagined she would look, right down to the hairstyle and the glasses. She's Karen, who finally got herself elected and imagines herself as The Manager, now.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) needs to leave this country.
It is too evil for them.
“She attended the University of Southern Maine and graduated from College of the Atlantic with a degree in human ecology.“
Human ecology?
I'm wondering if the Smithsonian African American museum still has its huge MLK Jr, Obama, and ANITA HILL exhibits but no mention of Clarence Thomas. The design and planning happened during the Obama admin, so no conflict of interest there...
That museum fails per design by committee: the actual history part is all in the basement and the walk up symbolizes "rising up" to freedom/equity upon reaching the ground floor. The first area represents a slave ship, and visitors get crammed into a tiny area whereby the exhibits literally cannot be seen. But, you "feel like you are on a slave ship." Then, the spacious above-ground floors focus on contemporary arts and culture. Many exhibits were too new to know if they were museum worthy.
WHAT, exactly? is the "outrageous assault on free speech"?
That the Government is Not Forced to do what the DNC wants?
is that the assault? just checking
meanwhile, in Sharia Law England (a country with NO free speech), police are coming into people's homes, to arrest little children.. for committing the crime of watching wrongthink videos
some thoughts are sacrosant, two legs good, four legs bad,
But, but, but, without the "brainless fearmongering rhetoric used to steal taxpayer dollars" how will the left survive?
a very wise (and telegenic) man once said:
Elections have Consequences
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/10-quotes-that-haunt-obama-081895
narciso: "EO 1066 signed by your favorite president interned a whole class of people"
Good point. Maybe the sign for the Japanese camps should be updated, with "Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt" starting every sentence. And then at the end: "But it wasn't as bad as Democrat President Barack Hussein Obama killing American citizens with no judicial process." CC, JSM
And a reminder: "Korematsu is still the law of the land. So whoever's reading this, watch yourselves." CC, JSM
"Pingree complains that the new policy is "trying to dumb everyone down...".
Nah. We all count on our public schools and universities for that.
I don't recall any signs when I visited Manzanar. Just a dusty field with the outlines of former building foundations.
The real crime with the federal and state parks system is the high cost of admission and the restricted parking and camping access.
COVID showed the huge value to mental and physical health of recreating in natural environments. I'm all for getting rid of the political indoctrination signs, but that's not the core problem.
The gatekeeping needs to stop.
Both sides do it!
I remember in 2020, when Glacier National Park had to remove all the signs saying the glaciers would be gone by 2020. Hahahaha.
Leftists think their two hands are there for wringing.
My wife and I often talk about setting up a trip to Yosemite, where we've never been. Among the things we talk of really wanting to see are signs berating us for our pleasurable life, and wanting us to contemplate how our very presence is killing the planet.
Nothing would bring us more pleasure than to be talked down to by leftists, even when they are not present and we're standing hundreds of miles from the nearest college campus.
What could be better?
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