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Posted: 6/15/2022 2:24:01 PM EDT
A Civil War cannon on Government Street in midtown Mobile, Ala., was painted in colorful hues to recognize Pride Month during the month of June 2022. (John Sharp/[email protected]). Mobile police have charged a man with criminal mischief for defacing a landmark cannon painted in rainbow colors for LGBTQ Pride Month. At least one supporter of the pride paint sees him as a pawn used by someone else. According to information released by the Mobile Police Department, officers responded to a call at about 12:39 a.m. on Wednesday, reporting that someone was painting the cannon at the intersection of Government , Old Government and Houston streets. .. The cannon is usually black, but by long tradition is repainted in the colors of the team that wins the annual football game between Murphy and McGill-Toolen high schools. It’s also occasional painted in honor of social causes, such as pink paint for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On May 28, for the first time, the city allowed it to be painted in rainbow colors to mark LGBTQ Pride Month. That color scheme was supposed to last until June 20. In Wednesday morning’s incident, 37-year-old Phillip Douglas Dean was arrested and charged “with criminal mischief and outstanding warrants.” The cannon was left mostly covered in black paint, though traces of the rainbow remained. .. “I can guarantee you that he did not buy the paint or the brushes or care to do that,” said Lucy Gafford, executive director of the Mobile Arts Council. “He was obviously taken advantage of.” .. She said she thought Dean was the victim of somebody who used a disadvantaged man to take the fall for the act, a tactic she called cowardly. The cannon’s rainbow scheme has caused no general controversy, https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2022/06/rainbow-pride-paint-scheme-defaced-on-mobiles-landmark-cannon.html |
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somewhere, some fag is thinking to himself "if you're brave enough"......
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I wouldn't fault someone of a diminished mental capacity.
Find the asshole(s) that put him/them up to defacing property, then fire them from that cannon, if it still works. |
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Can we all just take a minute to appreciate the seamless ROYGBIV?
. . . . . . That's enough. Fuck that guy. |
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The irony that the lgbtq think people that don’t have fully developed brains shouldn’t be used as pawns for a cause has not escaped me.
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Quoted: I wouldn't fault someone of a diminished mental capacity. Find the asshole(s) that put him/them up to defacing property, then View Quote The cannon was already defaced, he simply righted things. Perversion does not belong in public. |
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Alright, if they can charge someone in Texas with a felony for spitting on a corpse, I want to see this guy charged with a felony for faggoting up a historical landmark.
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That article was confusing the first time I read it. Maybe it would have been clearer if I had read the whole thing instead of the summarized version in OP.
Sounds like the cannon was rainbow colors and someone got a mentally challenged man to paint it back to black. Why aren't they saying Black Cannons Matter? |
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So did they deface the cannon by painting the gay month logo on it or did they deface the gay month logo by returning it back to normal?
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Quoted: The cannon’s rainbow scheme has caused no general controversy, View Quote Guess it did |
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The Best Of Carnac The Magnificent |
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Rainbow Pride paint scheme defaced on Mobile’s landmark cannon View Quote Just think, if they had left Admiral Semmes' statue alone they could have tarted it up too. Alabama AG: Mobile illegally removed Semmes monument, pays fine Attached File |
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Quoted: The cannon was already defaced, he simply righted things. Perversion does not belong in public. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I wouldn't fault someone of a diminished mental capacity. Find the asshole(s) that put him/them up to defacing property, then The cannon was already defaced, he simply righted things. Perversion does not belong in public. @sabocat Thanks for correcting my mistake! You can obviously tell I didn't read the whole story, and apologize for my knee-jerk reaction. |
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Well I, for one, am glad it's not "I did that" Biden stickers on fuel pumps...
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Quoted: If it's not your property don't mess with it. View Quote This is as good a time as any to remind everyone: When you're reading the brochure about visiting, or when they want to buy more land, they call it 'your public land'. Once they buy it, or once you show up to the park, they call it 'state property'. The state, and the public citizenry, are not the same thing. |
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Quoted: somewhere, some fag is thinking to himself "if you're brave enough"...... View Quote |
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"The cannon’s rainbow scheme has caused no general controversy, though the city council heard complaints from one critic at a recent meeting."
Yeah, because they will fire bomb their fucking house and jobs will be lost. |
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The dalghren is supposed to be black, not rainbow. It's a yankee gun anyway.
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4 gallons of citri strip and a case of black spray paint will unghey that in a jiffy!
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