{"id":37554,"date":"2013-09-12T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37554"},"modified":"2013-09-12T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:09:25","slug":"anna-shireman-grabowski-semi-professional-assclown-extra-ordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37554","title":{"rendered":"Anna Shireman-Grabowski semi-professional assclown extra-ordinaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the story:<\/a><\/p>\n

A 2,977 flag memorial was ripped out of the ground in front of Mead Memorial Chapel shortly before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 by a group of five protestors claiming that the flags were on top of a sacred Abenaki burial site.<\/p>\n

The flags \u2014 meant to commemorate each of the 2,977 lives taken in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks \u2014 have been posted in the grass between Mead Chapel and the Davis Family Library annually in a joint effort between the College Republicans and Democrats for nearly 10 years.<\/p>\n

Ben Kinney \u201915, president of the College Republicans, spent two hours putting the flags outside of Mead Chapel on Tuesday night, and happened to be walking up the hill towards the chapel when he saw four females and one male stuffing the miniature flags into black trash bags.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got there just as they were taking the very last of them out of the ground and putting them in piles,\u201d he said. \u201cAt first, I the group was comprised of College Democrats helping put the flags away before the rain rolled in, but then I realized what they were doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now the idiot chick has come forward to defend her actions<\/a>.\u00a0 H\/t Jeff Wilkinson\u00a0 (Corrected link)<\/p>\n

Today I, along with a group of non-Middlebury students, helped remove around 3,000 American flags from the grass by Mead Chapel. While I was not the only one engaged in this action and the decision was not solely mine, I am the one who will see you in the dining halls and in the classroom, and I want to take accountability for the hurt you may be feeling while clarifying the motivations for this action.<\/p>\n

My intention was not to cause pain but to visibilize the necessity of honoring all human life and to help a friend heal from the violence of genocide that she carries with her on a daily basis as an indigenous person. While the American flags on the Middlebury hillside symbolize to some the loss of innocent lives in New York, to others they represent centuries of bloody conquest and mass murder. As a settler on stolen land, I do not have the luxury of grieving without an eye to power. Three thousand flags is a lot, but the campus is not big enough to hold a marker for every life sacrificed in the history of American conquest and colonialism….<\/p>\n

Today I chose to act in solidarity with my friend, an Indigenous woman and a citizen of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy who was appalled to see the burial grounds of another Indigenous nation desecrated by piercing the ground that their remains lay beneath. I understand that this action is confusing and painful for many in my community. I don\u2019t pretend to know if every action I take is right or justified\u2014this process is multi-layered and nuanced. I do know that colonialism has been\u2014and continues to be\u2014a real and destructive force in the world that we live in. And for me, to honor life is to support those who struggle against it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of her nonsense over at the link.\u00a0 But dear God is this woman dumb.\u00a0 Her response to Colonialism is to piss off people honoring their own cherished dead?\u00a0 How on Earth does that make sense?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Same link, the President of the University is not a happy warrior….<\/p>\n

We live in an academic community that fosters and encourages debate and discussion of difficult issues. It is also a community that requires of all a degree of respect and civility that was seriously undermined and compromised by this selfish act of protest.<\/p>\n

Like many of you, I was deeply disturbed by the insensitivity of this act. Destruction of property and interfering with the rights of others to express themselves violates the standards of our community. The College has begun a disciplinary investigation of this incident.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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