Wilkes-Barre PA Beehive Monument removed

[struggle4progress]

POSTED 12:14 PM, JULY 18, 2019
BY CHELSEA STRUB
UPDATED AT 06:26PM, JULY 18, 2019

... The beehive monument on Wilkes-Barre's Public Square stood tall. It was put up in 2006 to celebrate the city's bicentennial.

Recently, a brick was placed on the monument and sparked outrage because of its affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.

The city rejected calls to remove that brick. Instead, the mayor decided to remove the entire monument ...

Mayor George says no vote from city council was needed because the city doesn't actually own the monument.

https://wnep.com/2019/07/18/beehive-monument-removed-from-public-square/

[NBachers]

1. I thought this was going to have something to actually do with bees.

[ProudLib72]

2. BREAKING NEWS: Phallus monument taken down because of association with

racist dickheads. More at 11...

[jberryhill]

3. Mayor made the right call

If you are going to let groups sponsor bricks in something like that then you either:

(a) take all comers and do not pick and choose based on the group, or

(b) scrap the whole thing.

Simply removing that one brick would have been a First Amendment violation.

That is an exceptionally smart mayor.