Older than Joe Biden and perhaps more brain-dead, too.
Two Just Stop Oil idiots took a hammer and chisel (it should have been a Hammer and Sickle!) to the protective glass case in which the Magna Carta was displayed.
The attack took place at the British Library.
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) May 10, 2024
There are only four surviving copies of the Magna Carta. Four.
For those of you who don’t remember your civics lesson, the Magna Carta is the agreement between the nobles and the king of England that limited the king’s power and helped set Britain on the path to a parliamentary democracy. It was a small but crucial step in the evolution of our system of government.
Ironically enough, our word for such people is “vandals,” named after the group that helped bring down the Roman Empire, plunging Europe into the Dark Ages–which is exactly what these…
