Things are heating up. Please help us save this historic work of art.
Fiction becomes fact in Ben Walsh’s Syracuse
George Orwell warned in “1984” of a world in which “the past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
Is that where Mayor Walsh is taking us?
… 100 years later, a similar over reaction by elected official Ben Walsh.
Removing the Columbus Monument is just as silly.
1921: The day Syracuse took a stand against dancing by banning the camel walk, the toddle and the shimmy
Let’s not go as far as San Francisco
In Syracuse you have many symbols of people who came here and did backbreaking work to make a better life for the next generation as did many other cultures. This phenomenon is not unique to Syracuse or the US. In an effort to preserve the Coliseum in Rome some have called for its destruction because of the barbaric history of the place. I say you can’t cancel out history just learn from it
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Embrace history, don’t erase history
Why erase history? It was the way it was. Let’s build a better future if we decided that we are smarter now than our predecessors. I doubt we are. They built amazing things and they built a beautiful country that still attracts people from all over the world. You don’t have to be very smart to destroy what was built before. And I rest my case.
Mayor Ben Walsh – let’s fix the roads instead
This monument was put up with money from the Italian, not by the city or county, If this statue that is an historical landmark, needs to come down, then all other statues in the city need to come down as well,. Leave it alone, let’s fix the roads in downtown Syracuse,
