2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution | Two activists poured the powder over the protective case to call attention to climate change

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2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution

The Constitution was not damaged, according to the National Archives Museum, which said that the powder was found to be a combination of pigment and cornstarch.

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Interesting they’d use powder, a way more suspicious substance than paint.
How the fuck did it cost $50,000 to clean up though? Get a goddamn vacuum, some paper towel, a mop. Fifty goddamn thousand?
- Likely because they had to consider the possibility of dangerous chemicals and pathogens.
  ETA: Given the nature of the location, they may have even hired an archivist and document restoration specialist as well. And being since it was a government job, that may have been added onto the single bill.
  
  Hazard pay for all involved too. Emotional distress and all. You never know what these tree hugging terrorists will do. I keep Tom Clancy Rainbow Six on my nightstand.
  
  I manufacture the highest grade of hazmat suit material there is. $1600 will get you an XXL suit. I couldn't come up with a way to make this cost more than say $4k-5k.
  
  slap on a respirator and gloves for an extra $200, still not 50k
  very intersting
Nobody will change. I appreciate the spirit of these protesters, but people have been warning about this stuff since the 80s. Humans have the built in ability to think they will survive and prosper, while everyone else falls away. We saw this on full display when wearing a mask to protect, even superficial or not, your fellow human being became a contentious issue.
It's just all so disheartening. I could just doom dump a bunch right now.
- We've been getting change; when the Democrats had a razor-thin majority in both houses of congress last session, we got meaningful climate legislation
  A bunch of regulation has been layered on top of it to try and get additional emissions cuts.
  It's not enough yet, but the operative word is yet. Put a bunch more Democrats into positions of power, and the US may actually do its part.
  
  Great, so the US is going to marginally cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, this is a global problem, and globally, we achieved record emissions this year.
- Since a few decades before that actually.
  In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth’s atmosphere to global warming.
- I don't get why so many comments online go "why does nobody protest?" then every time we see one all I see is "well that was pointless." What are any of us doing? What "effective" protest has anyone in this thread done lately?
  At least we're talking about it here, so they did something clearly. Throwing that powder is more than anyone here can claim to be doing.
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We should draw more attention to the fact that the Constitution is absolutely butchered by the people responsible for implementing it. They're doing far worse than corn starch. Let's charge them. It's best if we do it without their say so or using their means.
- Possibly for the same reason(s) you haven't
he was ordered by a judge to stay away from Washington and its museums and public monuments, prosecutors said.
Speaking of the Constitution, barring someone from an entire CITY seems to be rather outside of the spirit of the document itself.
We're gonna
checks notes
pour red powder over the Declaration of Independence!
Good thing all these paintings and historical documents are in well protected cases.