The radical left lies to condone breaking law

Cory Heidelberger said this about Greenpeace’s attack on Mount Rushmore:

p.s.: The Greenpeace activists do deserve credit for well-executed political theater. These weren't drunken anarchist goons out to smash windows. They were highly organized, well-trained climbers who took care not to do damage that could distract from their message.

Here is the truth:

Officials at Mount Rushmore may change their security measures after environmentalists were able to hang a banner warning about global warming from atop the national monument, a spokesman said.

The activists intentionally damaged part of the memorial's security system and were able to delay rangers' response to the demonstration Wednesday, said Nav Singh, a spokesman for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. He would not be more specific.

Heidelberger goes on to support this with the lie:

Symbolically, Mount Rushmore may have been the best place in the world to carry off this specific protest action. The activists ventured into the heart of the conservative West (I can't help thinking some of the Greenpeacers would rather have been back in the big city) to stand up for what here is a very unpopular position. They juxtaposed a gray image of President Obama next to the most famous stone representations of American Presidents, a setting that echoed exactly what their banner said: we memorialize Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln for brave leadership, not political craft.

What Greenpeace did was ‘political craft" and not leadership. As Cory points out, it was about attacking the "conservative West ". What Obama is doing is "political craft", not leadership. Obama is destroying what Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln created…liberty.

Comments

[caheidelberger]

My apologies, Sibby, for missing that line about damage to the security system. But I'm not lying. We both recognize the importance of telling the truth to win arguments; I will not lie to advance an ideal (well, not including lying to the Obama Gestapo when they come and ask if I'm hiding Sibby in my attic). Whatever the damage (smashed movement sensor? blacked-out lenses on cameras? snipped fences?), the protesters clearly took pains not to do damage to the memorial itself, the work of art that everyone sees.

[Steve Sibson]

Cory,

It was not clear, but I did mean for the lie to be from Greenpeace and not you. Now with the truth known, I would hope that you would condemn the entire act. We must stop with the ends justify the means. Or if the left does it it is OK, but the right can't.