Telltale seal County supervisors can't escape the emblem they despise

Las Vegas Daily News ^ | 12/22/04

[CDHart]

Good article -- thanks!

Carolyn

[squirt-gun]

Christians should follow the Jewish example and have an aggressive Christian Defense league and an equally aggressive Anti defamation league and form their own ACLU that would protect Christian rights as well as Jewish rights.

[Skooz]

This article has mae my day. Thanks.

I am 2000 miles away from L.A. county, but I might just buy one of those old seals from eBay myself.

[mewzilla]

[visualops]

When this whole thing started, the judge should have thrown it out and fined the ACLU for frivolity.

[GadareneDemoniac]

So what are these kooks proposing to do about the guy in the center of the seal with a halo around his head? Is this a figure of a saint or something?

[mewzilla]

I think that's the Roman goddess, Pomona, isn't it? She's okay, she's pagan.

[winodog]

real examples of intolerance are out there for anyone willing to take a look. In Simi Valley, four racist white teens have been arrested for attacking a black teenager, and in Thousand Oaks, vandals desecrated a menorah

They just had to throw this in there didnt they? And it has to be whites. The biggest problem between teenage boys and girls is blacks and mexicans fighting. Since bussing became the norm nobody messed with black girls but mexican girls are different. They will gang up if they have to to defend theirselves. White boys have always fought but they did not form gangs like the blacks and mexicans have.

Sooner or later this is gonna explode. Mexicans have taken over former black areas of towns and cities. And they are rapidly outgrowing the black population. This is going to be a huge problem in the near future.

[Zacs Mom]

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES OFFICIAL SEAL
March 1, 1957 – September 14, 2004

The Goddess Pomona – the goddess of gardens and fruit trees – is holding in her arms a sheaf of grain, an orange, a lemon, an avocado and a few grapes to represent Los Angeles County’s agriculture.

She stands on the shore of the Pacific Ocean with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.

The engineering instruments – the triangle and the caliper – relate to the industrial construction complex of the County and Los Angeles’ vital contribution to the conquest of space.

The Spanish galleon is the San Salvador, which Cabrillo sailed into San Pedro Harbor on October 8, 1542.

The tuna represents the fishing industry of Los Angeles County, and the championship cow, Pearlette, represents the dairy industry.

The Hollywood Bowl indicates the cultural activities, while the two stars represent the County’s motion picture and television industries.

The cross represents the influence of the church and the missions of California.

Oil derricks are symbolic of the oil fields that were discovered on Signal Hill.

The words “County of Los Angeles California” surround the seal.

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES OFFICIAL SEAL

The Native American woman represents the early inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, including the area we now call Los Angeles County.

She stands on the shore of the Pacific Ocean with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.

The engineering instruments‹the triangle and the caliper‹relate to the industrial construction complex of the County and Los Angeles vital contribution to the conquest of space.

The Spanish galleon is the San Salvador, which Cabrillo sailed into San Pedro Harbor October 8, 1542.

The tuna represents the fishing industry of Los Angeles County, and the championship cow, Pearlette, represents the dairy industry.

The Hollywood Bowl indicates the cultural activities, while the two stars represent the motion picture and television industries.

Mission San Gabriel, the first in Los Angeles County, represents the historic role of the missions in the settlement of the Los Angeles region.

The words “County of Los Angeles, California” surround the seal.

The County seal was designed by former Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, drawn by Millard Sheets, and adopted by the Board of Supervisors January 2, 1957 effective March 1, 1957. It was modified by the Board of Supervisors on September 14, 2004

[L98Fiero]

"In Simi Valley, four racist white teens have been arrested for attacking a black teenager,..."

I take this with a grain of salt. Truthfully, if the media took the same zeal in reporting black on white crime, they would not have time to report on anything else.

[Zacs Mom]

I just noticed they removed the oil derricks as well!

[GadareneDemoniac]

They replaced a pagan goddess with a human!!!!
Quick, somebody call the ACLU!!!

[visualops]

There is a problem when people don't assimilate. Unfortunately, and I think largely because of the Left's focus on false diversity and "tolerance", people equate assimilation with loss of culture which is not true. Because they don't assimilate, they do not learn accepted social behavior and the self-segregation tends to reinforce the differences.
The language issue is a biggie. Since businesses are catering to the Spanish-speaking public with more and more signs and labels in Spanish, there is less and less incentive to learn English, which exacerbates the problem.

[chatham]

Great Article.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

[chatham]

That is a very good Idea whose time has come.
The ACLU has become the New "Cross Burners" and they should be stopped.

[ELS]

Not even in the room where the supes voted to ban the cross-laden seal have they been able to make it disappear. Even though county workers covered the old seal that hangs on the wall with a massive decal of its replacement, the cross continues to shine through, refusing to be erased.

A miracle, or just a fitting example of how the censorious supes can't get anything right? You decide, but there's a wonderful irony in the saga of the anti-religionists who tried desperately to make the cross disappear, only to make it grow larger than life.

Worth a ping?

[BlessedBeGod]

More here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306546/posts

[Cicero]

Very politically correct. They got rid of the goddess of plenty and introduced a Native American Woman. And they got rid of the oil derricks, too.