Submitted on Tuesday 9th June 2020
Rejected on Monday 22nd June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Save British Heritage by protecting monuments of historical characters.
Stop a knee-jerk reaction to the "Black Lives Matter" campaign from destroying monuments, which may include works of art such as statues, paintings, and sculptures of historical figures.
Whatever crimes or actions of historical figures may, quite understandably, be considered heinous by today's standards, history cannot be re-written by destroying works of art by way of apology.
By taking such destructive action to appease or excuse the part played by our predecessors sets an extremely dangerous precedent.
For example:
Many of our cathedrals contain tombs of crusaders, whose actions, might well offend our Muslim communities. Should these be destroyed as well?
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Protect all monuments and statues from being taken down: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325814
Make it a specific offence to desecrate national flags, symbols and monuments: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325545
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