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Timber Rattler:
UPDATE:

NPS backed down, for the time being.

NPS withdrawals plan to remove statue of William Penn from site of his Philadelphia home

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/nps-withdrawals-plan-to-remove-statue-of-william-penn-from-site-of-his-philadelphia-home/3739497/


--- Quote ---The National Park Service (NPS) has withdrawn the review of a renovation plan that included the removal of the statue of William Penn from the site of his former Philadelphia home.

The NPS asked for input on the future for the park, located near the intersection of 2nd and Walnut Streets off Sansom Walk in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood, and they certainly received it -- at least online.

The online site where the public was supposed to provide comment on the Welcome Park proposal on Monday—the first day of a 14-day period where the NPS were going to receive public input on the plan.

By 6:30 p.m. Monday night, the NPS said the public comment period was closed.

"The preliminary draft proposal, which was released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review, is being retracted. No changes to the William Penn statue are planned," the NPS said in a statement.
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Shapiro stepped up and did the right thing.  He surprises me sometimes--he's much more moderate than commie Wolf.


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https://twitter.com/GovernorShapiro/status/1744502454048178194

mountaineer:
He's more pragmatic than Wolf, for sure.

mountaineer:
William Penn Survives The Left’s Assault On Beauty, Memory, And American Identity
These physical markers of our shared past help to bind us together, gluing us to history and the promise of future generations.
By: Nathan Stone
January 15, 2024
--- Quote ---The left’s jihad against statues and public memorials has finally hit a roadblock. After removing statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee, President Theodore Roosevelt, Christopher Columbus, and the Confederate Memorial at Arlington, a New York Times columnist even suggested that the father of our country be ripped off like a filthy Band-Aid and tossed. But it was the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, who resisted and won.

The National Park Service planned to remove Penn’s statue in Philadelphia’s Welcome Park to make it more “inclusive.” The proposal struck enough outrage that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro reversed track. He took credit for convincing the Biden administration to leave the venerable founder alone, at least for the moment.

It’s a definite win, but it needs to wake conservatives into asking the fundamental question: Why do leftists want to remove Penn’s statue? While Penn owned slaves, he transplanted the Quaker faith to the New World, planted the seed of abolition in the Americas, and arguably set the stage for the entire Anglo world to outlaw the institution.

There’s also the fact that Penn is just not that well known. Given what education levels are today, it would be surprising if even 50 percent of Philadelphians under 45 years old knew who he was or could pick out his statue from those of Thomas Jefferson or Daniel Boone. These are people, after all, who don’t know we fought the British in the Revolution and cannot say when the Declaration of Independence was signed. How could forgotten, currently meaningless William Penn be such a racist, white supremacist threat that he had to be memory-holed?

Of course, he isn’t a racist, white supremacist threat. That’s the unmasked reality.  ...
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Read entire article at The Federalist

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