6th June 1944

[hobbit.]

google it, you might learn something.

 

[Counselor706]

Churchill statue vandalised on D-Day anniversary as BLM crowd into London

I googled it...

Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, Westminster has been vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings by Black Lives Matter protesters.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Home Secretary Priti Patel — whose department has a wide remit including policing, border control, and national security — had warned against today’s protest in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdown regulations, which up until now have been enforced with zeal by the authorities.

Black Lives Matter activists have ignored these warnings, however, with the number of protesters in Parliament Square continuing to swell as of the time of this article’s publication, and the statue erected to the memory of Britain’s war-time leader there already defaced with “ACAB” graffiti — short for “All Coppers Are Bastards”.

Symbols of Britain’s war-time sacrifice were also targeted, with demonstrators pictured swinging from the flags adorning the Cenotaph monument which honours the fallen of the country and its former empire on Whitehall.

Source

 

[hobbit.]

But todays actions are all about virtue signalling.

 

[stickygirl]

Could just have easily been a statue to Wilberforce or Granville Sharp or Mandela. Assholes gotta be assholes.

I'm still puzzled by the headline in this Guardain piece, exclaiming London's BLM 'looks like a turning point', but for what exactly? The best our lot can come up with is Steven Lawrence, nearly 30 years ago, which is kinda insulting to G Floyd's cause given the number of police deaths in America since then.

 

[oggbashan]

6 June?

The American cemetery near Pointe Du Hoc; the British cemetery at Bayeux and the German cemetery nearby are a poignant reminder of the price paid for freedom.

All three are well maintained and respected.

Less known is the memorial to a free press in Bayeux that commemorates all those killed trying to report the news. Some are from D-Day 1944. What is upsetting is that every year they erect a stone with last year's names and each year seems to have a longer list than the year before.

https://travelfrance.tips/bayeux-the-reporters-memorial/

We pay a price for a free press.