Submitted on Tuesday 9th June 2020
Rejected on Monday 22nd June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
The government must ensure monuments & war memorials are protected from vandals
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
This week we see the truth of Orwells prediction. Historical illiterates rampaging around defacing statues, & the intellectual cowards appeasing then, have shamed themselves.
Since events in the US, the UK has seen protests focusing on defacing statues- eg Churchill (chief 'failure', stopping Hitler) & bizarrely, Abraham Lincoln (main 'failure' Freeing slaves apparently?)
Cowards in policing & politics, are legitimising this ignorance (when not kneeling in the streets).
We demand govt instruct police to protect war memorials & listed monuments, enforcing existing laws.
The argument for removing some statues is fair. Mob Rule is not the place for such decisions
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about how to respond to public disorder, including damage to public property, is an operational matter for local police, and not the Government or House of Commons.
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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