Pulling down statues

Now The Vandals Are Attacking Statues Of Catholic Saints

“I think the statue should come down"

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As President Trump said, the totalitarian mob rule of removing statues people find offensive has a slippery slope descending into darkness.

On top of people calling for the removal of George Washington's statue and the Jefferson Memorial, vandals in California have pointed their crosshairs at recently-canonized St. Junipero Serra.

According to a CBS Local report, a photo circulating the rounds on Facebook shows that a statue of Junipero Serra alongside a Native American boy in a park across from Mission San Fernando was vandalized with red paint and the word "murder" written in white. The Native American boy had a swastika painted across his chest.

City officials could not confirm the photo's authenticity. However, when investigators went to the site, they did indeed see red paint on Serra's arm and a swastika painted on the child next to him, which means the neighboring Catholic mission apparently cleaned the statue as best they could to avoid drawing controversy.

That would make perfect sense, considering that whenever the Left gets their hands on controversy like this, they always show up to get their inner Bolshevik on.

Some of the people interviewed by CBS expressed disapproval of the statue's presence, falsely claiming that St. Junipero Serra sought the destruction of Native American culture.

“I think the statue should come down from this park, and then put some appreciation to the Native people that live here,” Cristian Ramirez said. “We don’t want this violent history to be praised in our community."

Ever since Pope Francis canonized Father Junipero Serra for Sainthood in 2015, the Left and SJW snowflakes claim he had a violent history toward Native Americans. The LA Times said that "glossing over Junipero Serra's inhumanity was insult to Native Americans."

Archaeology professor Reuben Mendoza of Cal State Monterrey Bay debunked this garbage during the controversy.

"When he died, many native peoples came to the mission for his burial. They openly wept. Others of his colleagues and even colonists believed that he would be made a saint because of the way he had lived his life, a self-effacing life of a martyr,” said Mendoza.

“Because of what he had achieved in his life, even then they had talked about his impending canonization."

New Orleans' Joan of Arc Statue Vandalized With 'Take It Down

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/17/new-orleans-joan-arc-statue-vandalized-take/

Another day, yet another statue of a military hero is reportedly under fire. This figure astride a horse was vandalized with the spray-painted words "Tear It Down."


Who was this historical figure? General Lee? Stonewall Jackson? Nathan Bedford Forrest?


No, this was a figure who hails from the north.


Of France:


The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.

The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments. But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point.


Amy Kirk Duvoisin, the founder of the annual Joan of Arc parade that ceremonially pauses at the statue on the first day of Carnival season, says she's confused by the vandalism.


"Surely, people realize she's not related to American history," she said referring to the French icon.


Nah, I wouldn't be so sure.


In the last 24 hours, I've heard someone declare the Constitution was passed in the middle of a war, and that the Second Amendment was there solely so farmers could defend their crops from enemy aggression. And someone else declared that the NRA is selling black-market fully automatic weapons that also release poison gas. So I assume nothing.


It's also possible that this was the result of someone being intentionally ridiculous. After all, while removing statues of Confederate leaders is the big thing, there are also movements to remove a Thomas Jefferson monument from outside of Columbia University and a Teddy Roosevelt from outside of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. So maybe someone is just trolling these lunatics.



That said, it's more likely that someone really thinks Joan of Arc is problematic. Maybe she was against transgender women using the women's room.