Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized In Newport Beach

[villager]

Source: CBS LA

Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized In Newport Beach

NEWPORT BEACH (CBS) — A statue of former President Ronald Reagan was vandalized early Sunday, according to officials.

Police received a call at approximately 5:30 Sunday morning about a possible vandalism in progress at the Bonita Canyon Sports Park.

A witness saw a suspect tie something around the top of the statue and the other end to the front of his vehicle. The witness said the suspect then got into his vehicle and put it in reverse in an attempt to pull the statue down.

The suspect, described as a male in dark clothing, fled the scene before officers arrived.

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Read more: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/06/ronald-reagan-statue-vandalized-in-newport-beach/

[Arctic Dave]

1. Anyone out there who can photoshop the saddam statue coming down with ray guns head on it?

That would be awesome.

[FreakinDJ]

20. +1000

[Journeyman]

2. You can't drag that man forward -- better to topple him backwards . . .

he leaned that way his entire life. . .

[No Elephants]

74. At first, he was a Democrat!

[Journeyman]

79. A "Democrat" who testified against his own labor union before HUAC. . .

who cut the legs out from the Union for which he was President in a deluded effort to eradicate "communism" in SAG. In reality, he was only a toady to help the Studios discredit the unions.

The man in my avatar, Dalton Trumbo -- who was every bit a better man and an infinitely more decent human being than Ronald Reagan could have ever imagined -- lost his livelihood, spent a year in prison, and had to live a shadow existence for over a decade because of what Reagan and the others did to him.

Of the Hollywood Ten, Trumbo was most generous in his assessment of Reagan's perfidy. Trumbo's final judgment was that "everyone" in Hollywood "(had been) victims." That said, he titled his account of the Blacklist The Time of the Toad.

So please, don't sully the memories of so many decent people by confusing the costume Reagan wore in his early years with the blackhearted soul he was beneath that soiled cloth.

[formercia]

3. Obviously well planned and executed.

:rofl:

[qanda]

4. Fess up! Who did it? I promise I won't tell!

LOL

[wizstars]

6. wish I could take credit, but.....

unfortunately, I have an airtight alibi--I was in Missouri at the time.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. Ironically, it was probably one of Reagan's core constituency lifting it for a meth fix

rather than anyone making a political statement.

My father shit a brick when that thing went it and said he would relax his threat made in my childhood to tie my dick in a knot if I ever peed in public if I wished to piss on it.

[tropicanarose]

5. Oh gawd....the toppling of the GOP anointed saint. A real ploy to rally his half witted minions

:nopity:

[JEB]

7. Beat Ronnie's head

with the dirty sole of a shoe.

[Hissyspit]

8. I do not condone this behavior at all.

*snicker* :)

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. I don't know who was involved, but: Reagan -WORST President EVER!

I assume thats what it says at the base of this statue.

[caseymoz]

37. Reagan was bad, but worse than Dubya?

You talk about the presidency that tanked the whole nation and Reagan's doesn't even come close. Look at the unrest right now. Maybe Reagan set it up, but it has pretty much been Dubya's doing.

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. Reagan 'set it up' all right...

I'll agree it's a sit around with a bottle of Scotch debate as to who was worse. Both Reagan and W destroyed America as we knew it but I give the edge to Reagan for several reasons:
a) he came first and set so many things in motion that took years to cause havoc (union busting, tax cuts for rich, and resulting highest national debt, appointed Scalia to SC, made Rehnquist chief justice, Iran Contra, ignored AIDs, escalated the Cold War, etc
b) while few list Bush as anything but a bad president MANY lionize Reagan as a Mt Rushmore worthy President
and c) I lived thru that evil, bumbling fool and so, yes, a lot of this is personal.


Many threads started on DU around the time of his 100th birthday "honor" like...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7611016

[Liberalynn]

49. +1 Million

He should be remembered as the villian he was not cannonized like he is by unfourtunately large numbers of clueless Koolaid drinkers in this country.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

52. Yup ... and my experience includes Nixon, Reagan and W.

Talk about a trifecta of asshats.

Reagan should have been impeached for Iran-Contra. Period.

[xxqqqzme]

53. He's worse in my experience because

I got to experience him, as CA governor, dismantling education when I started college. My disgust w/ him started early.

[caseymoz]

60. Education got dismantled in my state without him.

It was an overall trend from resentment over the student protests in the '60s. Don't think it was anything less, and Reagan was hardly leading that.

And man, they fixed education all right.

[Art_from_Ark]

72. Don't forget about him siccing the National Guard on Berkeley students

No doubt he gave his buddy James Rhodes a few pointers about sending in the NG against defenseless college students.

[NYC Liberal]

57. Agreed. Reagan gave rise not only to the Bushes, but

to many other right-wing monsters who have helped bring down the economy and the country.

[caseymoz]

59. So, in a game, is it the one who makes the pass or the one who scores the goal . . .

. . . who gets the credit? In any game, we score the G to the finisher.

Would many of the things be wrong now if Gore became President in 2000? For one thing, arguably 9/11 would have never happened. That took away our liberties right there and expanded intelligence and privatized our armed forces in a way unimaginable before.

I lived during Reagan, too. The worst thing about him by far was the propaganda that accompanied him. Conservative think tanks and pundits came out of the closet and had a field day. College students, so liberal in the 1970s, became both conservative and cynical in the '80s (and yes, I went to college two different times in both decades.) Suddenly absolutely stupid, immoral socio-economic theories like objectivism weren't shameful anymore. The college students in the '80s, BTW, are now the Tea Partiers. One of them was Dubya, who was not only steeped in the propaganda, but in his family and friends, who could suddenly be quite shameless about their entitlement.

Even with all that, the country limped along and even thrived under Clinton despite conservative monkey business. It might have eventually recovered.

Then Bush got in. People would not be in the streets now if that hadn't happened.

Goal!

[Carolina]

50. yes, worse because without

him GHWB would never have been president (41). Reagan's policies and his minions lived on to wreak more havoc in the Shrub (43) years.

[AngryOldDem]

80. A lot of what we're dealing with now had its seeds during the Reagan administration

The beginning of the attacks on organized labor, deregulation, "trickle down economics", the credit crisis...these things take time to come to fruition but there is no doubt as to where they got their start...

...it all points back to St. Ronnie.

Worst. President. Ever.

[caseymoz]

83. Again, is it the guy who makes the pass or the one who scores the goal who gets the credit?

In anything else, it would be the guy who scores the goal who gets the credit. If you're going to keep giving credit to the ones making the assists, shouldn't we say that Reagan got his start with Nixon, who was assisted by Ford making the pardon? And Nixon was a direct result of Johnson? Then Johnson was the worst President ever. He started it all.

The fact is, acting after Reagan, Dubya still had a choice. He didn't have to follow up on the terrible ideas and terrible shit that Reagan did, hire all of Reagan's old cohorts, and bring it all to its tragic conclusion. Whether his decisions were informed by Reagan or not, they were his decisions. That goal is never scored if the point man doesn't shoot. Reagan was out of the play by then.

When Reagan left, the country was in very good shape. Other people continued to ruin it afterward. Now, maybe they were "inspired" by Reagan, but as liberals like yourself have pointed out, Reagan was not very inspiring. So, something else was going on there, out of Reagan's control.

[rhett o rick]

62. Disagree. BushBoy killed hundreds of thousands, tortured, and destroyed our Constitution.

Looks like we may never get rid of BushBoy's assault on our Constitution via Patriot Act, domestic spying, MCA and torture. He totally destroyed the Rule of Law.

[Jimbo S]

69. IMO, under Reagan

this country started becoming more and more narcissistic and jingoistic. Plus, his supply-side economics began the decline of the middle-class.

[SoapBox]

10. ...they should have just painted, "Raised Taxes!" all over him.

He was a joke...a bad joke and just another typical GOPer that left America with a mess to clean up.

[hunter]

11. Metal thieves...

... they probably didn't know or care who St. Ronnie was, but his statue was made of bronze.

They knew they could cut it up and sell it for scrap.

Yet another success story of Reaganomics!

[RKP5637]

14. Yeah! Good Point!!! It was probably the metal they wanted. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

24. at $2 per pound its a target

[winstars]

36. LA Sunday night 11:00pm news sez: SCRAP METAL THIEVES!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[wordpix]

65. lmao

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Exactly, that would be perfect irony! (no pun intended)

[DBoon]

30. perfectly good free market vandals

they knew the highest and best use of that hunk of metal

Too bad we couldn't scrap the rest of RR's legacy

[Kaleko]

38. Pic here of Reagan nearly halfway torn off his pedestal.

The metaphor is freakishly apt considering the state of the union.

[SpiralHawk]

42. He's leaning left

Obviously this is another occult republicon black-ops clusterwank.

[No Elephants]

75. Not if you stand facing the statue.

[Hepburn]

46. Should be leaning backwards...

...and that started with what he did as governor of California. Asshole...:puke:

[Kaleko]

71. Yeah, but that would prevent him from falling flat on his face

any minute now, while waving good bye to the America he helped destroy. So it's a toss-up for me. ;)

[wordpix]

67. wobbly walking is common with Alzheimer's

[Jenny_92808]

32. I too think it was probably metal theives...but

I bet fox news will spin it differently.

[Arugula Latte]

54. But then they'd have to admit that *gasp!* not everyone loves Saint Ronnie!

[chrisa]

84. Yup. Pretty ironic, isn't it?

He must be one of those hard-working, entrepreneurial Americans!

[unkachuck]

12. very resourceful....

....I once urinated on a statue of raygun....

[Xtraneous]

13. Talk about toppling statues... occupation ala 1776

http://blog.nyhistory.org/occupying-manhattan%E2%80%99s-public-spaces-1776-and-today/

[UTUSN]

15. Can I backdate transportation tickets to that place for those dates?!1 n/t

[kestrel91316]

17. It wasn't me. I live up in the Valley. Oh, and I don't have a car.

[bluedigger]

18. K & R

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Was it a cadillac?

That welfare queen could be giving St Ronnie Of Raygun some payback.

[ngant17]

61. our welfare queens

were not driving Cadillacs thru the ghettos of NY, they were maneuvering Space Shuttles thru the junkyards of outer space.

[tawadi]

21. Read where they placed a 9-foot statue of Reagan at the National Airport in DC this week

History will show he was the beginning of the end.

:puke:



Frederick Ryan Jr. (left), chairman of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, unveils a bronze statue of Ronald Reagan at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Nov. 1, 2011. The statue was unveiled as part of a dedication ceremony on the centennial of the former president’s birth. Also attending the event were former Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole (second from left); Charles Snelling (second from right), chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority; and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/1/reagan-statue-unveiled-national-airport

[LongTomH]

56. What! They forgot the Salvadoran baby skulls

This has been posted to DU multiple times; but, it shouldn't be forgotten: Reagan and the Salvadoran Baby Skulls

Ronald Reagan’s many admirers may find this idea offensive, but – given a new report by the Washington Post – it might be fitting to have a display at Reagan National Airport to show how Salvadoran baby skulls were used as candle holders and good luck charms. Perhaps the presentation could contain skeletal remains of Guatemalans and Nicaraguans, too.

It might be modeled after skeletons on display in Cambodia from the slaughters by the Khmer Rouge. After all, it was President Reagan – more than any other person – who justified and facilitated the barbarity that raged through Central America in the 1980s, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of peasants, clergy and students, men, women and children.

[wordpix]

68. Emphasis on National Airport, its real name

[No Elephants]

76. True. Beginning of the end.

Among many other things, his resounding re-election electoral victory gave credibility to the DLC.

[Historic NY]

22. Really they put him on such a low pedestal,what did they expect.

[EC]

23. Well, that didn't take long... n/t

[alp227]

26. That's what PHOTOSHOP is for. It's the 21st century damn it!

As much as we dislike Reagan let's not condone property damage. I bet this thread would've gotten 50 or so recs if this were a statue of FDR or Clinton or Obama.

[scarletwoman]

33. I condone removing public eyesores. nt

[ooglymoogly]

51. 0 you can have....anybody touches FDR gets a cap to the knees. nt

[NBachers]

27. "Tear That Statue Down Mr. Male in Dark Clothing!"

[jobycom]

28. "...it had to be removed because it was compromised."

It took someone trying to pull it down for them to realize THAT?

[eppur_se_muova]

35. Hey, if it wasn't compromised, it wasn't a convincing likeness! nt

[Hepburn]

47. ^5.....n/t

[Jim_Shorts]

29. Anyone have a bigger truck?

[PatrynXX]

31. bleh, some say Reagan would be treated as a moderate Democrat now.

why hello Ben Nelson...

[ooglymoogly]

58. Reagan's policies were far left of our dear leader's. nt

[No Elephants]

77. Ben Nelson is not a moderate Democrat. He's a DINO. We have center right and DINOs in Congress.

That's about it.

[sce56]

34. Reminds me of this one from 2003 Baghdad

From Occupy Los Angeles

[yurbud]

48. that's a great one!

[CrackersMcGee]

39. Someone, paste birdseed all over his head and shoulders

[Arugula Latte]

55. And chia seeds ... Chia Reagan!

[CrackersMcGee]

70. Reagan...with a Chia 'Fro....that works on so many levels. =)

---->Reagan was a clown.

[Politicalboi]

40. Police questioned

The Reagan statue, but all he said was "I don't recall".

[No Elephants]

78. And here I thought that was the Rethug Party motto.

I believe they got it from The Godfather movie.

[area51]

41. Reichstag!

:evilgrin:

[MarkCharles]

43. He's actually just leaning more to the right! n/t

[trof]

45. Next time use CHAIN, not rope.

I'm just sayin'.
:-)

[rhett o rick]

63. The rope didnt fail. nm

[fascisthunter]

64. a Hero!

.... Fuck Reagan

[wordpix]

66. like the guy in Take Shelter, I've had a feeling of dread ever since RayGun got in the WH

I can't shake it.

[No Elephants]

73. Oh, noes!!!1111!!!! Not St. Ronnie!

(Deregulate this, mf.)

[bitchkitty]

81. Hmmm, should have just painted a bra on it.

With a jaunty little scarf around the neck. Eyeshadow & lipstick too of course.

[ooglymoogly]

82. Speaking of shooda, wooda, kuda....

should have glued a ratty old shoe to the head.