UK WWII Memorial Vandalism.

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We're not fully there yet with this article and the repercussions will probably be suppressed.
Traditionally, anything to do with patriotism and the ultimate sacrifice for one's country is held in such high regard
that anyone defiling the memories of the Second World War is dragged over the coals in the media.

It's a no-no that dwindles ratings, but if it rubs-up against a preferred narrative, the word-play has to be on its
best game to make sure the reader/viewer doesn't take one side and berate the other.

Vandals splatter paint on WW2 memorials and Churchill statue as RAF pilot, 97, leads fury.

Vandals have splattered white paint over WW2 memorials across London in an overnight spree of destruction,
it was revealed today.


Vandals have thrown paint all over the Bomber Command Memorial in central London & the vandalised figures of
Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on the Allies sculpture in New Bond.

'The memorials hit in the attack -believed to be politically motivated -included one to British airmen, a Royal Marines
tribute, and a statue of Churchill. The criminals also targeted wreaths left for RAF veteran Stanley Forsyth, who died
recently aged 98.
The tributes were lashed with paint in a “senseless” and “insulting” defacing.

It is the fourth time The Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park has been vandalised in just six years, after being
opened in 2012 by the Queen. The bronze sculpture was built in honour of the 55,573 airmen in Bomber Command
who gave their lives in the war.

War veteran Vernon Morgan, who flew Lancaster bombers in the Second World War, denounced the vandalism.
The 97-year-old told MailOnline: “It's a disgrace. “One wonders what motivates such things, when all they did was their
duty helping this country in a war.

“The monument is recognition of 55,000 people who lost their lives to help defeat the Nazis.
”The former pilot believed the vandalism could be politically motivated -pointing to the 1945 Bombing of Dresden as a
possible reason.

He added: “Some of these people have been taken with the supposedly dastardly things they (the pilots) did to Dresden
and think that they are criminals, but these men gave their lives so that this country could be free.”
An estimated 25,000 civilians were incinerated in the fire bombing which destroyed 2.5 square miles of the city.

However, the Nazi government initially told German media to publish a casualty figure of 200,000.
Before the memorial was built six years ago, the then-mayor of Dresden flew to London in a futile bid to get the project
scrapped. But works for the £7million memorial went ahead, despite the opposition.
Lt Col Paul Smyth showed the extent of the latest damage in a tweet with the caption: “Utterly tragic. #lestweforget”.

Angry followers expressed outrage and disbelief at the vandalism.
Macer Gifford tweeted: “You have to be a special kind of a*** hole to do something like that. I hope they're caught….”
Andrew Newson wrote: “I find it hard to express the anger and sadness in equal measures of such desecration.
“I know a significant part of society would be happy to see the perpetrators publicly flogged to with in an inch of their life.
“Part of me would love to see them sat with a vet and hear their story.”

Cops said they are working to locate the perpetrator and no arrests have been made at this time.
A Met spokesman said: “Police in Westminster are investigating reports of criminal damage to two statues.
“Police received a report of criminal damage to the Winston Churchill statue at New Bond Street at 07.54am on Monday.
“At 08.28am that same day, damage to the Bomber Command memorial in Green Park, Piccadilly was reported.
“In both cases white paint had been splashed on the statues. “Officers from Westminster investigate -there have been no
arrests.”...'

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Of course, if your great-grandparents weren't involved in the war of Europe, the statues would mean nothing.
And there is that thin line the MSM may have to walk.

[Mystic Wanderer]

“The monument is recognition of 55,000 people who lost their lives to help defeat the Nazis.

I'd say it's some punk being paid by the Deep State Cabal who favor the Nazis. They're trying to bring Communism to the world. Anyone who tried to defeat them in the past would be viewed as the enemy. And, of course, it was probably some young idiot who never bothered to learn about history.

Different country, different memorial, but here in the U.S. we have the left screaming about a mural of Christopher Columbus they find offensive in the University of Notre Dame.

So... they're going to cover it up!  

Invoking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the president of the University of Notre Dame announced that 19th-century murals of Christopher Columbus painted on plaster walls at the hallowed campus' main building will be covered over, as the murals are "at worst demeaning" toward indigenous people and Columbus' arrival in the new world was "nothing short of a catastrophe" for them.

In his Sunday letter to the campus community, Rev. John I. Jenkins wrote that he's "heard from students, alumni, faculty, staff, representatives of the Native American community, and others on this complex topic" and has "decided, after consultation with the University's Board of Fellows, on a course that will preserve the murals, but will not display them regularly in their current location."

Image source: YouTube screenshot

High-res images instead!
Jenkins wrote that the murals' present location — "a busy throughway for visitors and members of the university community" — is "not well suited for a thoughtful consideration of these paintings and the context of their composition," even with a brochure in hand. So the murals will be covered by a woven fabric, he said, with the caveat that the fabric can be removed every now and then for special occasions.

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Sigh...  

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Just an update on the vandalism of the war memorials.

SAS hero warns scumbag who vandalised London memorials: ‘He’ll WISH cops had arrested him'

An ex-Royal Marine and SAS soldier has sent a warning to the scumbag who attacked memorials in London.


CCTV images have been released by police, but no arrests have been made.

'Four war memorials and a tribute to murdered Wpc Yvonne Fletcher were daubed in white paint on Sunday night.
Also trashed was the historic 116-year-old bronze Royal Marines Memorial.

And the Marine - who did not want to be named - had tough words for the person responsible.
Referring to the Royal Marines' base in Devon, he warned: "You don't want to know what would happen to them if
they went to Lympstone. This person should be educated about what these people have done for the country.

"I'm sure he would wish the police had arrested him first if he ever ended up at Lympstone."
Sources inside the base report that troops are outraged at the vandalism.
Your Daily Star has offered a £5,000 reward for information leading to the prosecution and conviction of the vandal
who did it.

CCTV images have been released by police, but no arrests have been made.
Statues defiled also included the Bomber Command Memorial, Canada Memorial and the "Allies" statue of Sir Winston
Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt.

Members of the public also voiced their anger. Kenneth Thorne, 74, said: "The person who did this is pond life - it's treason."
Wpc Fletcher was fatally shot outside the Libyan embassy in 1984...'

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In time of great need, leaders send young men and women to fight for them. they want these young people to fight and die. When the great need is over these young men and women are pushed aside and forgotten.
In GB the  ex soldiers are left on the streets the help they need not given. But the "refugees" who have given nothing to the country, and will never give anything positive are given all the help they need and the best homes.
Leaders and rich old men dont like been reminded that they are not the hero

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"I'm sure he would wish the police had arrested him first if he ever ended up at Lympstone."
Sources inside the base report that troops are outraged at the vandalism.
Your Daily Star has offered a £5,000 reward for information leading to the prosecution and conviction of the vandal
who did it.

I hope the police don't catch him. I think a better example could be made if the troops got to him first.