Speaking at a mourning ceremony at dawn on Australia Day, Boon Wurrung elder Jason Briggs called the vandals who cut the Captain James Cook statue off his plinth “cretins”.
I only skimmed the article but I guess there is some indigenous day coming up and this came down with iffy timing. You do not speak for us is a good stance. I don’t really know about calling it a violent crime though.
If it was me I would have further cut up and melted down the statue and tried to sell the metal. The world governments certainly don’t do anything to make living more affordable and a statue that presumably doesn’t stand for anything good funding my next meal would give it a purpose it never had. I doubt many people in the area even know much about the person it is based on since everyone that isn’t born wealthy is too busy trying not to die from being poor.
I only skimmed the article but I guess there is some indigenous day coming up and this came down with iffy timing. You do not speak for us is a good stance. I don’t really know about calling it a violent crime though.
If it was me I would have further cut up and melted down the statue and tried to sell the metal. The world governments certainly don’t do anything to make living more affordable and a statue that presumably doesn’t stand for anything good funding my next meal would give it a purpose it never had. I doubt many people in the area even know much about the person it is based on since everyone that isn’t born wealthy is too busy trying not to die from being poor.