In what is sure to be devastating news for America's left-most folk, the National Park Service announced Monday that it would be reinstalling the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike that was set afire and torn down during the George Floyd riots of 2020. The bronze statue stood in Washington, DC's Judiciary Square from 1901 until vandals torched it on June 19, 2020.
Park Service officials stated that the restoration and reinstallation of the statue was part of President Donald Trump's efforts to beautify the Nation's Capital and return sanity to the retelling of American history.
The National Park Service announced today that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020. The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues.
The statue sustained serious damage when rioters and vandals, under the guise of racial justice, spray painted the figure, doused it in lighter fluid and set it alight; not happy with simply defiling the figure, the thugs then placed a rope around it and pulled it to the ground. Here's the aftermath of the lunacy:
The Park Service took possession of the statue after its toppling, and it's been stored in a secure federal government facility these last five years. In addition to the significant damage inflicted back in 2020, there has apparently been serious corrosion of the bronze cast. It is now being restored at the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland, a process that is expected to take about two months.
Democrats, right one cue, are crashing out over the move to preserve American history, warts and all.
Jason Charter, an Antifa thug who was arrested for damaging the Pike statue (charges were, of course, eventually dropped), is positively incensed. "At first really shocked, but after seeing what’s been going on in the administration since Trump has entered office, it really just reminded me that they don’t care," Charter told a local TV outlet in the DC area.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has represented the District of Columbia as a non‑voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives since George H.W. Bush was president, said she intends to reintroduce a bill that would direct Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergum to permanently remove the statue.
"The decision to honor Albert Pike by reinstalling the Pike statue is as odd and indefensible as it is morally objectionable," Norton said in a statement. "A statue honoring a racist and a traitor has no place on the streets of D.C."
Although General Albert Pike was a Confederate general, his statue actually honors his years of service as a Freemason, including many years serving as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient Rite of Scottish Freemasonry. Pike's figure is clad in civilian clothing, not his military uniform.
President Trump witnessed the 2020 carnage firsthand during his first term in office, and has made it clear that such things will not happen again ... at least not under his watch. He signed two executive orders, "Making the District of Columbia Beautiful and Safe" and "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," earlier this year in an effort to undo the damage inflicted on the Nation's Capital by the violent left.
The General Albert Pike statue is expected to be reinstalled sometime this October.
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