Last week Popular Mechanics published an article on how
to safely topple a statue. It was sub-titled: “Bring that sucker down without
anyone getting hurt.”
The lunacy
continues unchecked…..
Let's see….all
the confederate general statues are in play….Then there’s at least the first
fifteen presidents of the United States. They allowed slavery.
In St.
Louis, a petition drive is gaining steam to topple the statue of the city’s
namesake, King Louie the ninth. Then the petitioners want the city renamed. You
heard right….they don’t just want to take down a statue in Forest Park of the
King…they want a whole new name because Louie was apparently an anti-Semite and
Islamophobic.
Can you
imagine the cost of re-naming a city of 320,000 people? The statue was the city’s
symbol before there was a Gateway Arch….which come to think of it…really needs
to come down since it is also known as the Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial…and everybody knows he was a slave owner…and besides…the arch
symbolizes the gateway to the west, where we creamed the native Americans. No
doubt, the Arch needs to be made into a couple of trillion razor blades.
Over the
weekend, in San Francisco, they toppled statues to Ulysses S. Grant and Francis
Scott Key. General Grant fought the Confederacy to abolish slavery. Key wrote the
National Anthem. You know the song…we play it before NFL games so the players can rest
before the kickoff by taking a knee.
Locally,
Fairfield was either too poor or too smart to ever erect a statue to anyone.
Score one
for our forefathers.
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