{"id":42196,"date":"2020-06-13T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=42196"},"modified":"2024-06-13T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:18:12","slug":"british-army-veterans-mobilize-to-defend-a-monument-to-their-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/13\/british-army-veterans-mobilize-to-defend-a-monument-to-their-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"British Army veterans mobilize to defend a monument to their fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of vandalism against historical monuments promoted by the extreme left movement Black Lives Matter (BLM) has fed many British veterans.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/04\/anti-racists-antifa-attack-the-statue-of-a-polish-hero-who-opposed-slavery\/\">Anti-racists? 'Antifa' attack the statue of a Polish hero who opposed slavery<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/12\/anti-racism-black-lives-matter-attacks-a-memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism\/\">Anti-racism? Black Lives Matter attacks a memorial to the victims of communism<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago the BLM protests reached <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cenotaph\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Cenotaph<\/a>, a monument located in Whitehall, next to the British Parliament, which remembers the fallen of that country in the two world wars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/11807698\/union-flag-burn-black-lives-matter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Protesters attempted to burn the flag of the United Kingdom on the monument<\/a>, sparking outrage for many veterans of the British Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the announcement that BLM would demonstrate again on Saturday at the same site, <strong>numerous British Army veterans belonging to the Household Division Brotherhood<\/strong>, who have served in the regiments of the British Royal Guard division, <strong>have come today to the Cenotaph to protect it of new attacks, being greeted with applause<\/strong> (original video from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BanTheBBC\/status\/1271746881421524993\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Truth<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRhEHKr3QVE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BanTheBBC\/status\/1271745387309694976\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Truth<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of vandalism against historical monuments promoted by the extreme left movement Black Lives Matter (BLM) has fed many British veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[10057,9997,13975,10677,13976,10678],"class_list":["post-42196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-british-army","tag-household-division-brotherhood","tag-london","tag-the-cenotaph","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}