Posted on 12/22/2004 5:25:26 AM PST by Ellesu
IT sounds like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. Six months ago, three county supervisors -- in cahoots with the lawyerly vigilantes at the American Civil Liberties Union -- decided to rid Los Angeles County of its decades-old seal with its minuscule gold cross. The supervisors passed a resolution, and they allocated $700,000 to purge the offending bit of historic religiosity from public view.
But it hasn't worked.
Instead, the seal, which scarcely no one had seen, let alone noticed, is now everywhere. Defiant county employees have affixed the old seal to their new, religiously sanitized uniforms. Defiant supervisors continue to use the old seal in their offices. The ongoing controversy assures the seal a regular spot on the newspapers' front pages, and old decals are selling like hotcakes on eBay.
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.
Back when they began their crusade, they were trying to prevent controversy, just in case someone might someday stumble upon the tiny cross and take offense. Now they have created a massive controversy they can't escape.
On a more serious note, a new report finds that although hate crimes are in decline in the county, their incidence is rising among teenage girls. Even in the nation's safest cities in nearby Ventura County, 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.
It seems that these are the sorts of offenses that real civil libertarians should be concerned about, not eradicating a tiny emblem that no one ever minded -- and whose removal has insulted so many.
Carolyn
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.
When this whole thing started, the judge should have thrown it out and fined the ACLU for frivolity.
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?
I think that's the Roman goddess, Pomona, isn't it? She's okay, she's pagan.
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.
The Native American woman represents the early inhabitants of the Los Angeles Basin, including the area we now call Los Angeles County.
"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.
I just noticed they removed the oil derricks as well!
They replaced a pagan goddess with a human!!!!
Quick, somebody call the ACLU!!!
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.
Great Article.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
That is a very good Idea whose time has come.
The ACLU has become the New "Cross Burners" and they should be stopped.
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?
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.
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