View Full Version : Bomber command memorial targeted again by vandals
RetiredBA/BY
21st Jan 2019, 16:02
The Bomber Command. Memorial in Green Park has been vandalised.
We owe it to all those who served in BC in WW2 to ensure that the perpetrators are caught and convicted.
I propose setting up a fund To be used as a reward for information which leads to their conviction.
I wiil make a substantial contribution, any support out there ?
kghjfg
21st Jan 2019, 16:50
There is so much CCTV in that area that if the police had the will to catch them, they could.
The barstewards should be made to clean up the mess.............Oh I forgot...........it will infringe their civil rights!!!��
Pontius Navigator
21st Jan 2019, 17:51
I met the memorial security officer. There is CCTV in the memorial.
Tashengurt
21st Jan 2019, 17:55
There is so much CCTV in that area that if the police had the will to catch them, they could.
Really? How does that work then? Will they have their names and addresses emblazoned on their clothing? Stand staring at the cameras with no face coverings?
Pontius Navigator
21st Jan 2019, 17:58
Tash, you go from camera to camera. Worked in Salisbury. It just depends on how much time and money you want to spend on it.
sitigeltfel
21st Jan 2019, 18:09
The Churchill/Roosevelt, Royal Marine and Canada memorials were given the same treatment. Probably by the same person or group.
Tashengurt
21st Jan 2019, 18:11
PN.
Salisbury is a lot smaller and less congested. Yes you may strike lucky and find an uncovered face or similarly incriminating image but the amount of footage would be staggering.
People talk about the Police as if everythings too much of a chore. I first heard of this attack on a Police site. The outrage was real, many are veterans.
Sad truth is every investigation is limited by resources available. This just won't attract the budget a state sponsored chemical attack will.
Strumble Head
21st Jan 2019, 18:29
Yes. Sadly money talks in so many things, and I would like to 'do my bit' to help ensure that those who perpetrated these acts of vandalism face justice.
Eclectic
21st Jan 2019, 18:47
The globalist oligarchy want to erase our history so as to better enslave us.
The kids that take this sort of direct action are just useful idiots. They don't realise the huge harm they are doing to themselves.
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https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/474x223/orwell_history_b0e80cd5c73d0309b03d5302fa3c1e84af467333.jpg
SASless
21st Jan 2019, 19:35
I will donate the 36' Mickey Mantle Slugger Baseball Bat for breaking the Perps Legs!
NutLoose
22nd Jan 2019, 09:47
If you don't want to get mad, don't look, I know what I would do to the feckers if caught....
:mad:
On a pleasing note however are the comments,
https://www.rafbf.org/news-and-blogs/statement-bomber-command-memorial-damage
mopardave
22nd Jan 2019, 09:59
They gave their tomorrows for our todays.....dear god, why? I'd love to talk to these people.....just before I did something unspeakable to them!
mopardave
22nd Jan 2019, 10:04
I will donate the 36' Mickey Mantle Slugger Baseball Bat for breaking the Perps Legs!
.….and I'm volunteering to swing it!
Yellow Sun
22nd Jan 2019, 11:27
On a pleasing note however are the comments,
https://www.rafbf.org/news-and-blogs/statement-bomber-command-memorial-damage
I wholeheartedly agree, the comments show that we can rise above this senseless act. The difference couldn’t be more stark.
YS
The people that did it are probably older than the young men who died ..and for whom that memorial is for ..
I would also hazard a gues than have not even left further education yet..
diffrent strokes
St Johns Wort
22nd Jan 2019, 18:46
I had a bit of a fume at this on Good Morning Britain...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcWzql7l6oo
but then this was shown on the BBC Breakfast.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7XdnXzetqk
chevvron
23rd Jan 2019, 01:34
The barstewards should be made to clean up the mess.............Oh I forgot...........it will infringe their civil rights!!!��
As unfortunately would putting them in the stocks.
Haraka
23rd Jan 2019, 06:07
Also I note that seemingly by the same perps ( similar timescale and using white paint) that the memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher was also vandalised. This might give a clue to the origins of the culprits.
RetiredBA/BY
23rd Jan 2019, 08:37
What an extraordinary ignorant and deluded individual this “professor of black studies “ , whatever that is, shows himself to be.
Perhaps he should go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ( as I did recently, standing exactly beneath the spots of the detonations) and visit the memorials there. The message I got in Japan, even from survivors, was “ We brought this tragedy on ourselves“, a sentiment expressed to me by many of my German friends about the bombing of Nazi Germany.
And just how does this pathetic individual suggest we should have struck back at the Nazis, who were occupying much of Europe when our backs were against the wall with an enemy intent on occupying OUR country ?
His absurd allegations that Bomber crews were terrorists are, in my opinion, as deeply offensive as are the acts of the s...s who desecrated the memorial.
treadigraph
23rd Jan 2019, 08:43
I would also hazard a gues than have not even left further education yet..
I'd suggest they are in dire need of some further education...
Downwind.Maddl-Land
23rd Jan 2019, 10:24
.….and I'm volunteering to swing it!
Oi - join the queue behind me.....
Herod
23rd Jan 2019, 15:23
I know a couple of Bomber Command veterans, well into their nineties, who could probably still sort this lot out.
SASless
24th Jan 2019, 11:43
We are having a similar problem in this country where the rabid left are demanding removal of anything to do with the Confederacy , Christopher Columbus or any of the Founding Fathers who owned Slaves.
They do not care about History, context, or the rule of law.
Sadly, our political leadership is surrendering to that movement of radical groups.
We are one generation from the end of the great experiment and it is not going to be pretty when it happens.
So far the Left have not discovered the Gettysburg Battlefield where there are monuments and markers for Units from both sides, Union and Confederacy, that help explain what happened over the three days of the Battle that determined the outcome of the American Civil War.
If we follow what the Left wants....then all of the Confederate Monuments will be removed if they have their way.
How do we teach our Children the history that defines our Nations if we cover up, hide, deny, or falsify reality?
Yes, Bomber Command killed a lot of people in the course of the War.....but it was part of an unlimited war of survival of our governments and also the very foundations of our freedoms.
War is an ugly business and we should remember that it takes great sacrifice when it happens, sacrifice on both sides in the form of human lives.
Defacing, destroying, or removing Monuments is not the way to express one's views.
Those Bomber Command Crews were no less gallant than the Confederate Troops who attacked the Union lines on the final day of the Gettysburg Battle and I think honoring those Men is the exact right thing to do.
My family friend who flew Bombers for the RCAF during War was as honorable a Man as I have ever known....and was one of the quiet ones who was proud of his service and understood why it was necessary to do what he did during the War.
He survived Thirty-Three Missions when so many did not.....he was one of them that took the fight to the enemy when it had to be done.
Yes....I see that Memorial as being a very important symbol of why there is the freedom in Great Britain there is today and honoring the Men that stood up when needed is the right thing to do.
P.S. Where do I send that Baseball Bat?
TEEEJ
24th Jan 2019, 16:11
A man in ski goggles is being hunted by police after white paint was thrown on a number of memorials around central London.
White paint was found splattered over the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park, Piccadilly, on Sunday.
A day later, similar damage was discovered at the Allies Statue of Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt in New Bond Street, the Canada Memorial in Green Park, The Royal Marine Memorial in The Mall and the memorial to murdered police officer Yvonne Fletcher in St James's Square.
White paint was also found on a shop window in Old Bond Street.
Police have now released CCTV footage of a man wearing ski goggles and carrying a plastic bag and say they want to speak to him about the incidents.
Detective Inspector Dave Watkinson said: "I am hopeful that due to this person's odd appearance, someone may remember seeing them making their way to or from the statues. As a result of the damage caused, the suspect would have left the scenes covered in white paint."
https://news.sky.com/story/police-hunt-man-in-ski-goggles-after-paint-thrown-at-memorials-11616503
November4
24th Jan 2019, 21:07
Really? How does that work then? Will they have their names and addresses emblazoned on their clothing? Stand staring at the cameras with no face coverings?
If only it were that simple.There was a case where a bloke broke into a covert capture car.
A lovely photo was produce of him showing him with his name and date of birth tatotod on his neck
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Tattoo clue led police to thief (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7656870.stm)