The following comes from an April 3 KRON4 article by Yama Hazheer:
MONTEREY (BCN) — A young girl found the decapitated head of a Junipero Serra statue during a low tide Saturday afternoon off the coast of Monterey, a Monterey police sergeant said.
Officers responded at about 3:30 p.m. to a report of the found statue head, said Monterey police Sgt. Mickey Roobash.
Roobash said the girl was wading in the shallow water near the Coast Guard Pier when she spotted the stone head.
The head of the Roman Catholic missionary was lobbed off a statue in the lower Presidio of Monterey in October 2015, Roobash said, following Pope Francis’ canonization of Serra on Sept. 23.
He said it was found “virtually across the street” from the entrance to the presidio where the statue stands.
The incident followed another act of vandalism against a Serra statue at San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission at 3080 Rio Road in Carmel-by-the-Sea on Sept. 26 or 27, according to police.
In November, Santa Cruz police officers responded to a report of vandalism to a Serra statue at Santa Cruz Mission, located on School Street between High and Mission streets. Police said the vandals splattered red paint on the mission’s front wooden doors and spray-painted a side wall with the message, “Serra St. of Genocide.”
Another hate crime against Catholics, and, do not hold your breathe, nothing happens. Ave Maria Purrissima !
As the swallows return to Capistrano each year, so does Fr. Serra return to the Presidio.
Wonder why the FBI is uninterested in a hate crime against Catholic churches and statues?
Because vandalism is a state offense, not a federal offense.
While it is a hateful act, by definition it’s not considered a hate crime until an actual person is harmed.
The most frightening thing I have read recently:
China Clamps Down With ‘Grid Management’ To Monitor Citizens
https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2016/04/04/china-clamps-grid-management-monitor-citizens/
In the near term, Catholics and some Christians and Jews, will be sanctioned targets of the State. It is already happening as our judicial process becomes more and more corrupt (yes, what do you think the Little Sisters of the Poor case is about?). Get ready to be Lion food, fellow Catholics; it will only get worse (and from your own countrymen).
california law would allow this to qualify as a hate crime since it involves damage to property and is an insult to religion , blessed serra being the best catholic california ever saw. good chance that local police departments don’t plan on pursuing this since it probably involves a lot of paperwork. but i am sure they could be nudged.
as a piece of sculpture, the lines are magnificent (even if it was cast). caliufornia also lost a beautiful piece of art . there is something refreshing and engaging in this stone head.
Lobbed ?? Try lopped.