photo credit from Portland: pamplinmedia
Daniel Greenfield is an associate of David Horowitz at the
Freedom Center, and he blogs at Sultan Knish.
Several days ago, he posted a sobering essay, “Here Are the Heroes Whose Statues Black Lives Matter Has Attacked,” about the destruction and defacement
of monuments. Highly recommended, pretty
upsetting, but a must-read. Here are a few extracts:
The statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the
Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, stands at
the corner of Fairfax and Beverly in Los Angeles. When the racist mobs swept
through the area, looting Jewish stores and defacing synagogues with
"BLM" and "Free Palestine" graffiti, the statue of a man
who risked his life to resist fascism and bigotry was one of their targets.
The racists and leftists
vandalizing statues across the world claim that they’re fighting hate, but
their targets have often been the men and women who courageously stood up to
racism and hatred.
. . .
In Washington D.C., the Lincoln
Memorial and the National WW2 Memorial were both defaced. This is not the work
of anti-racists, but of racists. It’s not the work of anti-fascists, but of
fascists.
While the media has upheld the
racist narrative justifying the Taliban campaign against America by focusing on
confederate memorials, the vandalism has been extensive, targeting both sides
in the Civil War, and spilling over to vandalize statues that have absolutely
no relevance to contemporary politics.
. . .
As every statue falls, is defiled,
and disgraced, a part of America dies. When Democrats and even Republicans
collude in the desecration and stand aside for the mob, a part of America dies.
The soul of a nation lies with its
heroes. The radicals and racists tearing down our statues are out to destroy
that soul. They want our heroes to be Karl Marx and Angela Davis, they want
terrorists, totalitarians and criminals celebrated, and heroes, explorers,
founders, officers and soldiers condemned.
They aren’t just coming for the
“controversial” statues as the media likes to tell us.
They are coming for all the
statues, for our entire history, for every great man and woman who sacrificed,
strove, and struggled to move the course of human history forward by even one
inch.
They are coming for America. And
they intend to destroy it, one statue and one city after another.
When the history of this period is
written, we will learn whether we had any heroes in our time.
Mr. Greenfield full article is here.
The Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument honors
Civil War soldiers and sailors from Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. It is located at Public Square. And it was
defaced during the recent riots.
How
much longer before it is destroyed?
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