It looks like there are at least some leaders that care about American history and understand the importance of our founding fathers. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, unlike numerous lib leaders, is actually standing up and defending an American treasure, Mount Rushmore. She has already tweeted about how nothing will happen to this monument on her watch.
“South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem vowed to protect the famed Mount Rushmore amid a campaign to take down statues across the country that has moved quickly from targeting monuments of Confederate generals to those of former presidents.
“This is no longer about equality,” Noem told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. “This is a radical rewriting of our history and in South Dakota we won’t stand for it.”
“The men on Mt. Rushmore helped make America the greatest country in history. They weren’t perfect; nobody is. But we should learn from their example and work together to accomplish their dreams for our country.” Gov Noem tweeted.
“Not on my watch,” the GOP governor tweeted on Tuesday after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro quipped that the chiseled faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln could be the next target of the “woke historical revisionist priesthood.”
Watch The Clip Below.
https://twitter.com/govkristinoem/status/1275880142691319814
“There’s no indication yet of any serious push against the towering monument and tourist attraction in the Black Hills of South Dakota, although Noem acknowledged on Wednesday that there has been “some activity online where people have made threats” that Mount Rushmore could be the subject of protests. Also, the figures depicted have had their likenesses targeted elsewhere.”
Trump has also made it far less than desirable as there will now be a 10-year prison sentence on anyone who tears down Federal statues.
“I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent…..”
Finally people the leaders are standing up to these vandals and thugs.
dan
Well, the feds should be protecting this one, but if Biden were somehow elected who knows. From a tactical perspective Rushmore would provide a great defensive position to fight off mindless liberal zombie hordes…
I so want to move to South Dakota. This governor is my kind of patriot – any jobs there?
These thugs are like the ISIS morons that destroyed all the very old Buddha statues.
Destroying history because they do not agree with it. But then some of them are destroying statues of people that helped blacks. Ignorant protestors.