WTH is wrong with people? Now they're stealing an iconic statue from Stanley Park for scrap metal? The sad part is the bronze statue will probably be melted down and sold in pieces. I just hope they'll install cameras there now. It just sucks!!!! (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/10.gif)
[FONT size=5]Metal theft hits park[/FONT]
Police say statue worth $5,000 likely to be sold for scrap
As they posed for photos with a pair of bronze statues, many tourists at Queen Elizabeth Park yesterday seemed unaware that one of the statues was missing and will likely be sold for scrap.
On Thursday, thieves removed one of four statues of the life-size sculpture Photo Session, depicting three people having their photo taken by a fourth.
Jane Brasset, of Port Coquitlam, said that while the theft is sad, its absence creates a natural place for people to be part of the sculpture.
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Was a statue stolen from Stanley Park as well as Queen Elizabeth Park ?
Some people.
When I was a kid, the Ronald McDonald statue kept getting stolen from McD's on No3 in Ditchmond. The one that had the big outdoor astroturf playground.
Hmmm. Stealing a statue is stupid. Now, defacing it with underwear is funny.
The "other" statue of family (the naked family)- in front of the Vancouver Sun on South Granville, often has private parts painted.
I've always hated the Winston Churchill statue in Fulton, MO.
Yeah. Stupid, stuck up Westminister College. Outside of Jefferson City. America has this love affair with Churchill. He's seen as the true American President. I'm starting to see the same (at least it's being mentioned in the Canadian media) with Obama. So far from the writers perspectives and polls Canadians see Obama as 'the PM they should have and claim as their own, since he represents Canada moreso then the US' (you know white mother, kenyan father, idonesian step dad, asian sister, childhood in Indonesia, grew up in Hawaii etc). (Sounds like a Canadian family moreso then an American one).
Anyway here in the states, Churchill is that embodiment. He is the President this country never had.
Hey Michel.. why a statue of Lenin? What did it represent or what presentation was it part of?
Democrats talk about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, MLK, FDR and Teddy Roosevelt
Republicans worship Washington, Jefferson, Goldwater, Reagan. They used to use Lincoln up until '04ish until it came out that Lincoln was gay. That's unacceptable for Republicans. No Republican official by my watch has mentioned Lincoln since. Republicans try to use Teddy as an idol. But Teddy has been laughing his ass off at Republicans since 1911 and if he was around today would be part of Greenpeace hugging trees.
In the pantheon of 'saints'
Washington- duh
Franklin- intellectual
Hamilton- Economy
Jefferson - expansion
Lincoln - saved the country
Teddy- environmentalism
FDR- Great Depression
JFK- Camelot
RFK- hope
MLK- freedom
Robert E Lee - general of the Confederacy
George Patton - General of World War II
Rosa Parks- freedom
Hellen Keller- although she's sort of wained lately
Mark Twain - the official satrist of the U.S.
The new right wants Reagan to be in this group.
The PI has an article on the one in Seattle. People light it up as a Christmas Tree during Christmas and put women's clothing's on it for an gay pride parade. In the article a Russian History person said Lenin wouldn't find it funny, apparently he didn't have a sense of humour and Trotsky would of thought it was hysterical.
well the ideology is called Marxist-Lenninst. Therefore that's where people make the connection. The political hacks on tv or the elected officials say Communism, Sotgwpdm and Marxist Lenninism. So to people interested in history here they see the connection. Its Marx created Lennin, Lennin created Stalin, Trotsky tried to stop Stalin, therefore Lenin and was killed.
Michel wrote:
Therefore that's where people INTERESTED INTO CONFUSING OTHERS PEOPLE make the connection
Marxism-Leninism has nothing to do neither with Marx nor Lenin. At the time, the Left oppostion of the Communist Party of Russia that grouped itself around Trosky against the emerging police state of Stalin took the name Bolchevik-Leninist in oppostion to the Stalin clique.
After that, "Troskyist" became the name by default because of the propaganda of the Stalinists against the Marxist opposition, describing them as Trostkyists. Orwell's Hommage to Catalonia had big problem to deal with that, and thats the main weakness of that book. [/DIV]
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Where was the problem in the book? I remember Orwell saying what you said, everyone who was precieved against the Communist Party i.e POUM and the Anarchists were then called 'Trotskyist' even if they weren't. Or is it that he didn't mention why this happened is the weakness? I thought he did in the Spanish context of the war.
I don't really see it that way. POUM was the 'none of the above' group which is how it became the scape goat in the republican battles in the May Days conflict. Orwell states that he should of been with the Anarchists.
OH FOR FRACK SAKE.................................... (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Angry/6.gif)
[FONT size=1]nevermind[/FONT]
Lise wrote: OH FOR FRACK SAKE.................................... (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Angry/6.gif)
I'm frackin with ya Lise. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)