Vietnam Wall Vandalism is a False Flag Attack on the Anti-War Movement

[ck4829]

RW'ers are screeching about how the Vietnam Wall has been vandalized, and to them it had to have been perpetrated by Leftists Anti-War Activists. But, if you read between the lines, something doesn't seem right.

* Anti-War individuals have been declared the culprits by the Right Wing without eliminating any other possible perpetrators or the fact that it might have been accidental.

* The story spread very quickly through conservative news sources, and for some reason they were quicker on this then the rangers in the park were. This may be because they had access to information that wasn't real and they were just making certain stuff up.

* This story is connected to a Right Wing activist who declared that Anti-War groups would vandalize the monument in an earlier protest (Didn't happen BTW).

Anyone know where Phil Parlock is at?

[annabanana]

1. No question about it. The Chicken hawks have been

BSing about this for months...

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Please--the Riech Wing HATED the Vietnam memorial when it was unveiled!

Has everyone forgotten how these warmongering RW fuckheads complained that it was too negative, and insisted that a more glorious-looking bronze statue be installed nearby?

And now they decide to pull this shit?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. This is more their speed...

And lest anyone blast me, I supported a WWII Memorial, just not this monstrosity.

[bunkerbuster1]

12. Funny you should mention that...

I wasn't even aware that it had been built, but we visited DC recently and I happened upon it.

I gave it a big "eh." Looked like it had been designed by committee, to ensure that each state got equal time.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

18. Exactly.

To each his own I suppose, but while I found The Wall powerful and moving, the WWII Memorial left me cold, and that shouldn't be.

[tabasco]

19. Oh God no! They have ruined the beautiful Reflecting Pool.

I supported a WWII memorial as well but this truly is a monstrosity.

What next, Reagan on Mt. Rushmore?

Our society is truly on the decline. We have lost all taste and the sense of the sublime.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

21. LOL Is there room for Ronnie or will they have to blast someone off?

http://images.google.com/url?q=&usg=AFQjCNFRoOA0IT2jwCIGB2xPU0-TKIviDw

What's done is done, but this sums up the controversy beautifully:

"The Rainbow Pool site is no empty area waiting to be filled. The spectacular open space was designed in 1912 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. The area includes the Rainbow Pool along with the abutting rectangular-shaped Reflecting Pool and the two rows of specially planted elm trees.

This radical proposal departs from the concept of open vistas that has guided city planners in Washington, D.C., since it was first proposed in 1791 by Pierre L'Enfant and realized and extended by the McMillan Plan of 1901-1902.

...

In addition, the design violates the National Historic Preservation Act by adversely changing this historic area.

The center of the National Mall, like all great works of art, should be left untouched."

http://www.savethemall.org/wwii/index.html

God forbid we have open vistas with gasp! trees and grass.

[formercia]

28. It has that Roman Ruin look

There seems to be the leveling of Carthage and salting the earth that nothing will grow mentality of years late.

[TahitiNut]

24. First off, it's a Monument, not a Memorial

That's despicable enough. That they paved over "The People's Mall" is an additional abomination. Even worse, from my perspective, is that they desecrated the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with EVERY concrete and metal monstrosity scattered on the Mall after the Wall.

When the Wall was proposed, one of the loudest and longest hues and cries had to do with intruding on the Mall ... and ruining the unbroken expanse of 'contemplation.' That's much of the reason that the design by Maya Lin was chosen - acceptable to the "out of sight, out of mind" crowd. Little did they realize the power of the escarpment.

As we've cluttered the Mall with monstrosities (glorifying WAR) since then, we've also lost sight (anti-memorialized) the very lesson that over 58,000 died for and over 2.5 million of us sacrificed for.

[Snarkturian Clone]

27. This is unrelated, but this thread

reminded me of the highly pretentious Maya Lin.

"Don't you wish you were 1/8th of 1% as awesome as me?"

[CTyankee]

29. Correct! I was in D.C. at the time and the RW was in a rant over the wall! Said it was an insult

to the service members. I thought at the time it was because the designer was a woman, an Asian and (gasp) a Yalie undergrad.

Now it is the most visited place in D.C. Now of course the RW loves it because they were proven WRONG.

[Kagemusha]

3. I. Don't. Care. It was wrong, I don't care who did it, it was wrong.

I am not interested in the politics on EITHER side of the issue.

[libnnc]

5. it in all probablility was a screw up by park workers

AND HAS BEEN EXPLOITED BY FREEPERS BLAMING THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

[WillyT]

7. According To The Park Service, It Was A Cleaning Accident !!!

They used the wrong solvent.

NO VANDALISM!

:shrug:

[Kagemusha]

10. Then all the more so, a pox on all who are using this for political hay

Enough of the finger pointing, god.

[proud patriot]

11. !

good to know

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. Do you have a link? Someone needs to be shut down ASAP.

I went to PP site and didn't see update since original press release.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. Scratch that ... I just read #9 below. Thanks. (n/t)

[hughee99]

17. Fascists, Evil repukes trying to make us look bad,

clearly a setup, it HAD to be the repukes, and they're trying to blame it on us without any evidence... oh wait, a cleaning accident you say? Never mind.

[Name removed]

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[sasquatch]

4. This has a very Ominus feel to it

Is this the Reichstag all over again?

[DemGa]

6. Very plausible

Certainly a well-known right-wing tactic.

[annabanana]

9. here's the answer. . ITS ALL BS!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1814407

[Joanne98]

15. MIHOP

[kevinmc]

16. No Doubt They did it .....

Those crazy fucks will do anything to "promote" their agenda ... just look at the crazy fucks that speak for them.

[alfredo]

22. the last time there was an anti war rally they did something similar.

They tried to make the right-wingers think we were going to vandalize the memorial. When no threat appeared, they looked foolish.

[calvn2mbahcm]

23. Link to story of wall being vandalized please EOM

[ck4829]

26. Here you go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1814102&mesg_id=1814102

[XemaSab]

25. The memorial is beautiful.

I was really surprised by how moving it is. It's an awesome tribute to the many men and women who died for NOTHING.

I can't imagine an anti-war activist wanting to desecrate it.