Greenhouse at Edgerton

A Monument to George Washington

The Washington Monument has attracted the attention of protesters over the years.

Norman Mayer protested the insanity of nuclear weapons in 1982 by driving a van up to the monument and threatening to blow it up. They shot him dead.

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Dwight_Watson drove a tractor into a pond in Constitution Gardens near the Monument in 2003. He also claimed to have explosives. He was protesting the fact that he couldn't make a living growing a highly addictive, fatal disease causing drug (tobacco) without continued government subsidies. He served fifteen months in jail.

Neither man had explosives.

Conspiracy Theorist's Moral of the Story-If you are going to protest, do not protest something meaningful for purely selfless reasons. Protest something ridiculous for completely selfish motives. That way the powers that be might sympathize and let you live.

Looking Up in DC

Interior domes of the Museum of the American Indian (top) and The National Gallery of Art (bottom). The former makes me think of Porky Pig saying "Thats all folks!"