We have Cory Heidelberger calling those who damage government property as being patriotic:
I would suggest that if this year's Tea Parties—and the original—were patriotic, then so was Wednesday's Mount Rushmore protest. The Greenpeacers are every bit as committed to their principles as the fellas in Boston Harbor, willing to break the law to get their message across. In the case of the guy at the bottom of the banner, that patriotism meant being willing to let a 65-foot banner take him for a parachute ride on the side of a mountain... and hang on to complete the mission.
Is it a crime? Sure. But an outrage? The four big fellas on the mountain might have thought otherwise.
And then there is David Newquist on Keloland, who often attack others as he commits the same offenses:
Unfurling a banner is a lot less destructive than a bucket of paint would be, but the fact is that Mt. Rushmore is the supreme site for launching messages. I don't condone doing plastic alterations on the Rushmore visages, but I can't but admire Greenpeace's strategy.
As I pointed out, the action was anti-American, not patriotic. While these same Progressives agree with the government targeting conservative groups and accusing them of potential violence, the real criminals are honored. Sadly we have come to the point when you do it, it is wrong, when we do it, it is honorable.
We have abandoned the founding principles that the founders on Mount Rushmore used to create liberty. In the 1830’s, Alexis de Tocqueville said that religion and politics were in harmony as he sought the reason for why America’s crime rates were lower than France. The harmony has been removed by the secular Progressives. Morality has been replaced with immorality. The secular Progressives have forsaken God and not they think they are god. We are now living in a dog eat dog would where the strong get their way and the rest can just shut up, because, as Obama said …"I won".
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