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WHEN BLUE STATES ATACK
World Net Daily ^ | Posted: December 24, 2003 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 12/24/2003 2:45:47 PM PST by RaceBannon

When blue states attack

Posted: December 24, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 Universal Press Syndicate

Uttering the standard liberal cliche a few years ago, Richard Reeves described "representatives of the new South" as "Republicans of old puritan definition, righteous folk afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun." (I'll skip the context of Reeves' insight, except to note that apparently aging liberals view sodomy with a chubby intern in the back office as "having fun.")

Like all beliefs universally held by liberals, Reeves' aphorism is the precise opposite of the truth.

It's the blue states that are constantly sending lawyers to the red states to bother everyone. Americans in the red states look at a place like New York City – where, this year, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade featured a gay transvestite as Mrs. Claus – and say, Well, I guess some people like it, but it's not for me.

Meanwhile, liberals in New York and Washington are consumed with what people are doing in Alabama and Nebraska. Nadine Strossen and Barry Lynn cannot sleep at night knowing that someone, somewhere, is gazing upon something that could be construed as a religious symbol.

It's never Jerry Falwell flying to Manhattan to review high-school graduation speeches, or James Dobson making sure New York City schools give as much time to God as to Mother Earth, or Pat Robertson demanding a creche next to the schools' Kwanzaa displays. (Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa becoming way too commercialized?)

But when four schools in southern Ohio have displays of the Ten Commandments, sirens go off in Nadine Strossen's Upper West Side apartment. It will surprise no one to learn that the American Civil Liberties Union promptly sued and the schools are now Ten Commandments-free. (At least students in the Ten Commandments schools, as opposed to schools in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, might reasonably be expected to know how to count up to 10.)

From the Chelsea section of Manhattan, the gay, Bronx-born Puerto Rican executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, tossed and turned all night thinking about the Ten Commandments display on the Elkhart, Ind., municipal building, which had been there, without incident, since 1958. The ACLU sued and the monument was hauled off.

In Ohio, Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese had a framed poster of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. The ACLU sued and the Ten Commandments came down. Compare that to the late New York judge Elliott Wilk, who famously displayed a portrait of communist revolutionary Che Guevara on his office wall. (Che, Castro, Hussein – evidently the only bearded revolutionary these people don't like is Jesus Christ.) And yet, no one from Ohio ever sued Wilk.

The ACLU got word of a Ten Commandments monument in a public park in Plattsmouth, Neb. (pop. 7,000), and immediately swooped in to demand that the offensive symbol be removed. Not being from New York, Plattsmouth didn't want to litigate. Soon cranes were in the park ripping out a monument that had sat there, not bothering anyone, for 40 years.

ACLU busybodies sued Johnson County, Iowa, demanding that it remove a Ten Commandments monument that had been in a public courtyard a since 1964. Within a year, the 2,500-pound granite monument was gone.

Mail-order minister Barry Lynn's Americans United for Separation of Church and State – a group curiously devoid of both Americans and churchgoers – sued little Chester County, Pa., demanding that it remove a Ten Commandments plaque that has hung on the courthouse wall since 1920.

"The Upper West Side and Malibu United" also sued the city of Everett, Wash., demanding the removal of a Ten Commandments monument in front of the police station. AU legal director Ayesha Khan explained they had nothing like that back in Pakistan and look how well things turned out there.

(Perhaps in addition to the usual processing requirements for new immigrants, there should be a form that says: Welcome to America! You will no longer have to live in a mud hut, earn 32 cents a year, and have members of your family periodically dragged off and shot. However, you may, on occasion, have to see people praying.)

The alleged legal basis for removing all of these Ten Commandments monuments is the establishment clause of the First Amendment. That clause provides: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." The vigilant observer will note instantly that none of the monuments cases involves Congress, a law or an establishment of religion.

Monuments are not "laws," the Plattsmouth, Neb., public park is not "Congress," and the Ten Commandments are not a religion. To the contrary, all three major religions believe in Moses and the Ten Commandments. Liberals might as well say the establishment clause prohibits Republicans from breathing, as that it prohibits a Ten Commandments display. But over the past few years, courts have ordered the removal of dozens and dozens of Ten Commandments displays.

How a local judge acknowledging a higher power with a symbol used by all three major religions is the same as Congress establishing a national religion remains a legal mystery – like, how the University of Michigan can use one admissions standard for blacks and another for whites and yet it's not race discrimination.

How about a truce? The intolerant religious fanatics in the red states will continue not complaining about high taxes, secular education and gay-rights parades in the blue states, and the proponents of tolerance in the blue states will stop bothering everyone in the red states.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: RaceBannon
Blackrobes who have ruled for 70 years without basis in RATIFIED Constitutional law are outlaws, domestic enemies of our Constitution, the only social contract from which they derive any and all of their limited, temporary, lawful powers.

The excuse of stare decisis is a contrived "they made me do it" cowards' cop out to violate the only Constitution which affords them any status. With our Constitution so undermined, blackrobes are just bullies in black waitin' to get their justice when the consent dries up.

It is passed time that blackrobes are held to account for their mockery of The Law of the Land. They have no lawful power to change our Ratified Constitution. They have a doomed career path to rule as if they can nullify our Bill of Rights.

SCOTUS and it's inferiors should be told that they are not above our laws, despite what they rule to protect themselves, "for life". Either cowards or collaborators occupy the Congress and presidency. Over three generations of Constitutional corruptions tell me that we have an incumbant politicial politburo which embraces power over all else.

Congress should remove these tyrants before the people do. If not news, it is history.

41 posted on 12/24/2003 8:08:27 PM PST by SevenDaysInMay (Federal judges and justices serve for periods of good behavior, not life. Article III sec. 1)
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To: RaceBannon
How a local judge acknowledging a higher power with a symbol used by all three major religions is the same as Congress establishing a national religion remains a legal mystery –

It's not a mystery at all. The same people who bring these suits believe that these judges who make these rulings are the higher power, with Congress a mere annoyance. In fact, they have been cultivating this situation for years.

42 posted on 12/24/2003 8:14:52 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: RaceBannon
(Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa becoming way too commercialized?)

ROFLMBO!!!

43 posted on 12/24/2003 9:06:01 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only... (James 1:22))
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To: Mr. Mojo; RaceBannon
<< I see this "Democrats = blues states" nonsense is now completely ingrained in the culture, even though it was the GOP that has been traditionally designated in blue (before 2000) by the media. "Commie red" is a much more appropriate color for the Rats. >>

That one bothers me, too.
44 posted on 12/25/2003 12:32:37 AM PST by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Well said.
Maryland was entirely "red" except for the little blue "melanoma cluster" just outside of DC, proper.
Unfortunately, that cluster decides the political fate of Maryland due to the sheer density of its "liberal" population.
The rest of Maryland spends its time in smouldering political rage and resentment.
We only vote once every election day and so far have not discovered the secrets of harnessing the "zombie" constituency.

45 posted on 12/25/2003 1:19:10 AM PST by Salamander (In Haitii, the dead walk. In Maryland, they vote Democrat.)
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To: McGavin999
"Their problem is they are so unhappy with their lives that they have to meddle in everyone else's life."

My theory is that they are actually trying to justify
-their- lives by forcing the rest of us to "accept" their evil via "legalizing" it.

Their subconscious/repressed guilt drives them to try to absolve themselves via the tyranny of forced "tolerance" laws.


After all, if it's legal, surely it can't be evil...right?


46 posted on 12/25/2003 1:30:52 AM PST by Salamander
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To: Salamander
It all depends on how you define "tolerance and diversity." Conservatives and people of faith are simply excluded from their understanding of it.
47 posted on 12/25/2003 1:39:08 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Merry Christmas bump
48 posted on 12/25/2003 1:48:48 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Rummyfan
Ooohh.
49 posted on 12/25/2003 1:51:20 AM PST by gitmo (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Mr. Mojo; Dan Evans; supercat; sarasmom
I think the incumbent party is blue and the opposing party is red. In 2004, the Republican states will be blue.
50 posted on 12/25/2003 1:54:10 AM PST by gitmo (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Swordmaker; sauropod
Just once, I would like to see a township (after having been sued by the ACLU and losing), tell the ACLU to stick it and try enforcing the ruling. Just once.

The problem is that people believe in the RULE OF LAW. They will follow the rulings of the Judicial Activists failing to recognize that they are not basing their rulings on the RULE OF LAW, but rather on the RULE OF MEN.

Well stated response, Swordmaker. Sauropod, I understand your desire to just see the people who make stupid laws try to enforce them. I have the same desire.

However, the reality is that the liberal activists use the power of the state to enforce their edits. And it will be the state's enforcers (the various police agencies) will show up to take down the offending symbol, confiscate the assets, or arrest the person. Something I point out to anyone who says "There should be a law..."

It is necessary to have rules in society. And these rules have to be enforced somehow. But when the ACLU (or whoever) gets a ruling, that decision or policy is backed by government government force.

51 posted on 12/25/2003 2:12:00 AM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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To: upier
megaping!

(The best Coulter column ever?)

ML/NJ

52 posted on 12/25/2003 5:17:55 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: RaceBannon
My family enjoyed this!
53 posted on 12/25/2003 6:49:50 AM PST by Kay Ludlow
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To: RaceBannon
I'd like to know who decided that conservative rural states got assigned the color "red"
and urban liberal states got to be "blue"
It would be more in line with the Marxist ideologues of these areas to show their true colors
Guess that means among hot red bloodied patriot people rather than whose cyanic anemic
oxygen-less blood courses through their veins like frozen lard...
54 posted on 12/25/2003 8:00:00 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: wontbackdown
There should be a remake of "A Christmas Carol" with that ACLU lawyer as Ebenezer Scrooge.

The only difference is it would end not with the lawyer changing, but with him suing the Ghost of Christmas Future demanding his fate be changed to something more to his liking.

55 posted on 12/25/2003 9:23:23 AM PST by Houmatt (Pray for Terri Schindler!)
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To: sauropod
That reminds me of a quote from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country:

Spock: If I were human....I believe I would tell them...go to hell.....if I were human.

56 posted on 12/25/2003 9:29:05 AM PST by Houmatt (Pray for Terri Schindler!)
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To: joesnuffy
I think the Democrats should be pink.
57 posted on 12/25/2003 10:03:06 AM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Nebr FAL owner
Because the cr*p that the liberals are doing will eventually lead to a 2nd civil war not of mass armies but of death squads.

I'm afraid you're right. I wonder, which specific targets might the liberal side pick first? Bible schools?

58 posted on 12/25/2003 10:55:31 AM PST by Mackey (Here's to Peace on Earth -- American Style)
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To: McGavin999; Congressman Billybob
"I think we all ought to get together and file a class action suit against the ACLU."

I agree.

59 posted on 12/25/2003 11:46:09 AM PST by sauropod ("If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.")
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To: Swordmaker
To paraphrase Charles Dickens: Sometimes the Law is an Ass.
60 posted on 12/25/2003 11:48:00 AM PST by sauropod ("If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.")
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