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Yesterday, the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “let reason prevail” freethought holiday banner — which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre following city approval — was tampered with. A vandal — Joe McDonald — climbed the structure on which the banner was placed, sliced ropes holding the banner, and spoke with local news reporters confessing […]

M J Shepherd, an artist who frequently contributes cartoons to friendlyatheist.com, has drawn a cartoon responding to the vandalism of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s banner which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. See it here. See all posts pertaining to the FFRF banner here: http://www.justinvacula.com/category/ffrf-banner/

Yesterday, a resident of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and someone I attended high school with, Joe McDonald, climbed a structure on Public Square to slice the ropes holding the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s banner which was placed following city approval. Here’s the video. The rope-slicing was recorded by local news station WNEP-TV, broadcasted throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania, and […]

In my previous post, I speculated concerning possible vandalism of the “Let reason previal” FFRF banner which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. It appeared to be the case that someone cut the strings holding the banner and placed on American flag in its place. I was right. According to WNEP news, Shortly before […]