“The Radicals Will Fall” By James Reed
The 110-year-old Captain Cook statue bronze statue in St Kilda's Catani Gardens was cut from its stone base just before Australia Day, as a message from the radicals. What is important as well is the message left, spray painted on the memorial base: "the colony will fall."
The radicals need to think about what this means in the geo-politics of today. Do they really think that they will be left alone to return to the life style of prior colonisation? Could they, probably all living on Centrelink, even survive? Do they think that if the present "colony" did fall, the new rulers, communist China, would put up with this bs? Have they heard of Tibet? Of industrial scale organ harvesting? They better hope that the White regime continues for a while to allow these mentally arrested growth infants to play out their woke games with tolerance from a passive population. Because what is coming will crush them like a juggernaut.
"A 110-year-old Captain Cook statue in a Melbourne park has been cut at the ankles and toppled off its stone base just hours before Australia Day.
The bronze statue in St Kilda's Catani Gardens was cut from its stone base shortly before 3.30am on Thursday.
Vandals spray painted 'the colony will fall' in red on the memorial base and left the statue hacked off at its ankles - lying face down in the grass.
Workers have arrived at the park in Jacka Boulevard to take away the broken statue using a crane and to wash off the graffiti ahead of Australia Day.
The base of the statue was covered in shattered glass and one of the stone steps was torn off.
The statue has been in the park for 110 years and is believed to be the oldest major memorial in Victoria honouring British explorer Captain James Cook.
A statue near the National Gallery of Victoria was also vandalised with red paint on Thursday.
The same message, 'the colony will fall,' was scrawled at the bottom.
Australia Day, observed each year on January 26, marks the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 when the first governor of the British colony of Arthur Philip, hoisted the Union Jack at Sydney Cove.
But, for many First Nations people, the date is regarded as 'Invasion Day' or the 'Day of Mourning,' with 'Invasion Day' protests scheduled to take place in major cities on Friday.
Police have launched an investigation to track down the culprits responsible.
Liberal MP Angus Taylor called out the vandalism.
'Captain Cook was a man of the enlightenment. Why would they do this to I think a great human being,' he told the Today show on Thursday.
'It's another one of those acts that frankly, everyone should condemn.'
Port Phillip councillor Marcus Pearl called for the vandals to be hunted down and held to account for their actions.
'This is not a solitary act of mischief,' he said in a statement.
'It's a repeated pattern of disrespect, especially evident around Australia Day for the past six years.
'Such acts blatantly disregard our community's hard-fought principles of debate and democratic expression.'
The statue in St Kilda has been a frequent target for vandals in recent years.
The statue had red paint thrown over it over three consecutive days in 2022 as part of an Australia Day protest and was previously vandalised in 2020 and 2018.
Several people were seen loitering in the area around the time of the incident.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
The statue was built to commemorate Captain James Cook, a British explorer who made the first recorded European contact with Australia's east coast on April 29, 1770."
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