Neither the NYPD nor the NYFD were willing to comment publicly about a wanton act of vandalism that occurred this week at Ground Zero of the 9/11 Memorial. Calls and emails to both agencies were not returned. It’s not too difficult to figure out why.
There were 343 New York City Firefighters murdered near the vandalized site on September 11, 2001. There were 23 New York City Police officers and detectives killed on that horrible day.
Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, 31, was arrested at the 9/11 Memorial he defaced Monday night. He was charged with criminal mischief, making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments.
Tijerina painted the URL of his anti-gun website onto the marble stonework surrounding the North Tower of the reflecting pool. He then boasted of his insane criminal act on his website.
“My name is Jon Tijerina and I’ve just spray-painted ‘just stop killing kids’ on the 9/11 Memorial,” Tijerina wrote on his website’s Instagram account.
Thankfully, the memorial has already been restored. Tijerina’s paint was quickly removed, which cost taxpayers around $500. Tijerina has, of course, been released from custody. His next court appearance is January 13, 2027.
Tijerina was only six years old when terrorists struck 25 years ago. It’s questionable whether he even remembers the horror of the events of that day, but it is crystal clear he doesn’t give a damn about them now.
The nature of the crimes he publicly bragged about committing speaks volumes. It’s doubtful that he knew any of the nearly 3,000 victims who were murdered that day, or any of their families, or any of the rescuers whose health was horribly impacted by the terrorist attack.
It’s also unlikely he knows any of the slain servicemembers who quickly enlisted and gave their lives in response to that horrible day, or their surviving family member who are still struggling. It’s a given he never saw how the entire country (briefly) came together in the hours after the attack, regardless of politics or party.
If you look at his website, the answer to why he vandalized one of the country’s most holy places becomes quite clear. Tijerina, friends, is a nut. Even the staunchest anti-gunners in the country have got to think the same thing if they read this wacko’s scribbling.
He’s lost all of his marbles. He’s off his rocker. He’s as mad as a hatter. Every single one of his screws is most certainly loose. In sum, he needs some serious help.
Tijerina’s website calls for two specific actions—just two—which he describes as “demands.” He demands universal background checks and a universal gun registry.
“Both already exist in other high-income countries. Neither requires repealing the Second Amendment. We are not asking for the impossible — we are asking for what every other wealthy democracy already has,” Tijerina wrote on the website.
Background checks, he falsely claimed, “stop prohibited buyers.” Because of course they do. And a national gun registry, he wrote, is sure to work, too.
“Every gun sale — including private sales, gun shows, and online transactions — must include a federal background check. This is already the law in 22 states. It should be the law everywhere,” he wrote.
If the entire country doesn’t immediately agree with his two “demands,” Tijerina warns of what will happen in response: “Civil resistance.”
“Civil resistance is different. It does not ask permission. It does not wait for the next election cycle. It applies direct, sustained pressure until the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of change,” his website claims.
He then goes yet another step too far, and he actually compares his crimes to the actions of one of history’s most celebrated civil rights groups: The Freedom Riders.
That, friends, is over-the-top insanity. For Tijerina to compare his stray-painting to the actions of a real civil rights group leaves no doubt in anyone’s sane mind about the lunacy that has overridden his thoughts and actions.
“Civil resistance is not hope. It is strategy,” he wrote on his website.
In my humble opinion, the best response to Tijerina’s civil resistance strategy will be when he dons a white jacket with sleeves that tie in back, followed by a few thousand volts administered between his ears. That would be the exact response that both his desecration and his civil-resistance deserve.
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Make Asylums Great Again.
It’s really too bad for the rest of is that social media has essentially made irrational, destructive outbursts of unrestrained emotion not just justifiable but common and ordinary.
One more reason to not live in cities surrounded by destructive adult children who value nothing but themselves.
More left wing criminality and threats.
Maybe its time to start ‘vandalizing’ the bodies and property of anti-gunners, you know for ‘civil resistance’ purposes.
They better thank their lucky stars we are not like them. For if we were we would have decimated the left winger anti-gun population a long time ago.
Well.
According to the smartest people in the room. The libertarians liberals and leftists.
This is an act of the 1st amendment. They say this is protesting the American government. And when war memorials and confederate statues were being ripped down. That was all a 1st amendment action by protesters, they said. At the time back in 2020.
Back then I said the protesters should be shot dead.
I was told I was wrong. I was told they had a right to protest.
Several years ago these same “freedom of speech freaks”. Complained about Muslims in Afghanistan who announced they would destroy thousand year old statues carved into a mountainside.
The three L’s are full sh!t. And always have been. They have never supported the 1st amendment. But they did support g@y pr!de p@r@des while churches were forced to close by government order.