Posted on 06/22/2020 12:29:28 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
In response to protesters tearing down a 100-year-old statue of George Washington and vandalizing it, Washington's Mount Vernon warned that “we will lose the story of the United States” by failing to honor Washington, adding that without the founding father and former U.S. president, "there would be no United States" or U.S. Constitution.
The Mount Vernon estate is a historic home of Washington, the first U.S. president, and is located in Fairfax County, Va.
Protesters in Portland, Ore., on Thursday night spray painted "colonist" and "BLM [Black Lives Matter]" on the statue, wrapped an American flag around it and set it on fire.
"Without George Washington, there would be no United States of America; there would be no Constitution, which allows the freedom of speech, assembly, and protest, as well as the separation of church from state and without Washington we would not have civilian-led military," said Mount Vernon President and CEO Dr. Douglas Bradburn in a statement provided to Just the News on Friday.
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We’re patient, but don’t think we aren’t preparing.
Obliterating history and replacing it with fiction is the democratic wet dream.
Washington's most overlooked gift to our nation: He walked away.
Erase history
rewrite history
forget history
repeat history
Carrying a torch in a gunpowder storage room is done by democrats, democrats’ useful persons and majority of alphabet media types. The majority of the People have common sense
The Bolsheviks and their useful idiots could not care less about history. The here-and-now is Year 0, and that’s all that matters.
the rioters, looters, vandals and arsonists will come for Mt Vernon soon enough. Then it’s onto Montecello, maybe even Ford’s Theater.
Groundswell of conservative protesters, my gluteus maximus! What are we paying a bloated DOJ, and myriad LEOs all over the Country for?! There cannot be ANY acceptable reason for letting things get this far, except lawlessness by Democrats, and don’t give a damn by Republicans.
I would agree.
Waiting for Mount Vernon to be torched and some people to say, “Golly, I guess that will show them what you get when you vote Dem!” as the mob moves on to the next bit of history to erase. Their revolution continues and no one is standing in their way.
only George Floyd should ever be honored from now on
Democrats can dream. When this foolishness wears itself out, we can put up a BIGGER statue of George Washington.
“‘We will lose the story of the United States’ by not honoring George Washington,”
Of course that’s true, but the people doing the evil don’t care. Actually that’s their goal — to lose the story of the U.S.
And nobody is protecting the statues, artifacts, etc.
Don’t even put it into their minds.
Mount Vernon is a beautiful national treasure
However, it isn't about George Washington at all. It is entirely devoted to the slaves who lived on his plantation.
Many young people are anti-colonialist. They do not even know that we were the colonies. We were not the colonial rulers of outer countries.
Thank God Mount Vernon is private property.
I’m very perplexed by the thought that those who love the country the most ought to make sure they are on the front lines of doing the least to protect it. Could you explain?
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