Monday, June 22, 2020

Fairfield Is Safe From Statue Spree



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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