{"id":31825,"date":"2017-10-24T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31825"},"modified":"2017-10-24T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:32:38","slug":"common-sense-comes-to-the-park-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31825","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Comes To The Park Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/park-service-cancels-funding-project-honoring-legacy-black-panther-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> posted an article today about a recent decision by the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The National Park Service told the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> it is no longer providing funding for a controversial project &#8220;honoring the legacy&#8221; of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Black Panther Party\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Panther_Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Black Panther Party<\/a> after outrage that the agency would spend taxpayer dollars to memorialize a group that murdered a park ranger in the 1970s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <i>Free Beacon <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/feds-give-berkeley-97999-honor-legacy-black-panther-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> last month that the Park Service gave roughly $100,000 to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"University of California, Berkeley\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.87,-122.259&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.87,-122.259 (University%20of%20California%2C%20Berkeley)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a> for a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Research\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">research project<\/a> on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Marxism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marxism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Marxist<\/a> extremist group to &#8220;memorialize a history that brought meaning to lives far beyond the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"San Francisco Bay Area\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.75,-122.283333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=37.75,-122.283333333 (San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">San Francisco Bay Area<\/a>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Committed to truthfully honoring the legacy of [Black Panther Party] BPP activists and the San Francisco Bay Area communities they served, the project seeks to document the lives of activists and elders and the landscapes that shaped the movement,&#8221; the National Park Service stated in the grant awarded for the project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A captain in the Black Panther Party murdered National Park Service ranger Kenneth Patrick while he was on patrol near <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"San Francisco\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.7706,-122.4269&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.7706,-122.4269 (San%20Francisco)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">San Francisco<\/a> in 1973. Patrick was <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2005\/mar\/15\/local\/me-panther15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot three times<\/a> by Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr., who is currently serving a life sentence for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Murder\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">first-degree murder<\/a>. Patrick left behind a widow and three children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1997 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"David Horowitz\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Horowitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">David Horowitz<\/a> published a book called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Radical Son<\/span>. The book details Mr. Horowitz&#8217;s experiences as a 1960&#8217;s radical and details his involvement with the Black Panthers during that time. He details the story of the murder of a friend of his that he had recommended as a bookkeeper for the group. Shortly after she began asking questions about the books she was keeping and the financing of the group, she was murdered. This is not a group that needs to be either memorialized or celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Free Beacon posted an article today about a recent decision by the National Park Service. The article reports: The National Park Service told the Washington Free Beacon it is no longer providing funding for a controversial project &#8220;honoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2999,11179,407,1431,8892],"class_list":["post-31825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-horowitz","tag-marxist","tag-national-park-service","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-bay-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31826,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825\/revisions\/31826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}