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Federal Park Ranger Mocks Founders, Constitution ... While Leading Tour of Independence Hall!
2016-04-21
A federal employee of the National Park Service who offers guided tours of Independence Hall in Philadelphia -- the birthplace of the Constitution -- stunned a group of tourists this week by telling them the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were the product of "class elites who were just out to protect their privileged status."

Mary A. Hogan, a federal employee making in excess of $95,000 per year in salary and benefits, provided a tour Monday afternoon at Independence Hall laced with factual inaccuracies and disparaging comments about the Founders and the Constitution.
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#7  The article has been updated. Mary Hogan is now Holly Holst, with no mention of her salary.

See also http://www.c-span.org/person/?hollyholst
Posted by: Fairbanks   2016-04-21 14:28  

#6  I say we removed this man from his privileged status then.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-04-21 11:09  

#5  The same brown shirts who kept the people from their monuments (even stopping a volunteer wanting to cut the grass) not long ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-04-21 11:03  

#4  The idea that Constitution was written for the benefit of the wealthy is actually over 100 years old. Charles A. Beard wrote "An Economic Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution" in 1913.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-04-21 09:46  

#3  My wife worked for the Close Up Foundation for several years in D.C., educating high school kids in the Constitution and government for a week. She was often amazed at the ignorance of these mostly very bright kids, and loved to correct their misunderstandings of our Constitutional Republic.

Obviously, Ms. Hogan was not one of her pupils.
Posted by: Bobby   2016-04-21 08:19  

#2  Scars often make a man more attractive, not to mention as future teaching aids in his line of work as a cautionary tale perhaps..

And Zenobia doing a verse or a Limerick would be very nice.
Posted by: Sluque Gleter9682   2016-04-21 08:15  

#1  After immigration, I think "civil service" reform really needs to be on the agenda of any pro-liberty political movement.

Followed by a bunch of rolling heads. (metaphorically speaking, of course)
Posted by: charger   2016-04-21 00:16  

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