Posted on 06/22/2006 1:44:05 PM PDT by RDTF
ANN ARBOR, MI – A three–judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stay Federal District Judge Gordon Thompson’s order to remove the Mt. Soledad Cross pending an appeal. Thus, the City of San Diego must remove the Cross by August 1, 2006, or face fines of $5,000 per day thereafter. In its decision, however, the Ninth Circuit scheduled oral arguments on the matter for the week of October 16, 2006, weeks after the Cross is to be removed. The 43- foot Cross was erected in 1954 and currently is the centerpiece of a national memorial honoring American veterans of all wars. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been fighting to save the Cross since 2004 when it received information that the private memorial association operating the memorial site and the City were about to agree to settle the case, which had been on going for 15 years, by removing the Cross.
(Excerpt) Read more at thomasmore.org ...
General revenue for the city. Like parking tickets.
People "laugh" at old tv series like "I Led 3 Lives" and the Jack Webb meets Twilight Zone short fillm "Red Nightmare" but the fears of America under Communism are coming true.
Revisionist history, indoctrination, supression of religious expression...
I have some issues of Dissent from shortly after McCarthy (and "McCarthyism" was defeated). The socialist authors wrote essentially, "and what's so wrong with being a communist anyway?" Well for one, Uncle Joe Stalin was not a nice man and to serve his agenda, even in ignorance, was a mistake.
...some sort of demon.
Be content, you got that part nailed.
Only because the colors are reversed and it's still too soon.
Check out the 'issues' over the English flag as opposed to the Union flag.
(Hint - "Crusaders")
... In December 2004, as a result of legal research and urgings by the Thomas More Law Center, Congress and the President designated the Mt. Soledad Cross, the land on which it stands, and the granite memorial walls surrounding it a national veterans memorial. The congressional action authorized the Department of the Interior to accept a donation of the property. The Secretary of the Interior would administer the Memorial as a unit of the National Park System, giving the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association the right of continued maintenance of the Cross and surrounding granite memorial walls and plaques.
However, despite widespread support, the San Diego City Council declined to make the donation. As a result, a religiously diverse, grass roots organization, “San Diegans for the Mt Soledad War Memorial,” headed by Jewish businessman Philip Thalheimer, obtained more than 100,000 signatures on petitions, calling on the council to reverse its decision. In response, the City Council opted to place the question authorizing the transfer as Proposition A on the July 2005 special election ballot.
Plaintiff Paulson’s attorney filed a second lawsuit, this time in state court, seeking to stop the vote. Despite the fact that the ballot proposal passed by an astonishing 76% of the vote, State Court Judge Patricia Cowett ruled that Proposition A violated the California constitution. Her order is being appealed as well.
The San Diego mayor requested that. Apparently he was denied.
It would help if the Thomas Moore Law Center would file a suit to remove "Sacramento" from the county, city, and river which bears the name "Sacramento."
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=1113de8pprh3s?tname=sacramento-california&curtab=1542_1&sbid=lc07b
"In either 1806 or 1808 the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga discovered and named the Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento River after the Spanish term for 'sacrament', specifically, after "the Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ," referring to the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist."
You might be on to something. How about declaring it a national historic landmark?
A federal land grab? Bad idea. We criticized Clinton for doing the same thing.
So if the fines paid by San Diego go back to San Diego, it shouldn't be a problem, right ?
That right there is the problem with Americans today. What we need is for 1000 military veterans to stand armed with rifles and shotguns ready to kill, the same damn way I did during combat. If I can kill to free another mans country then dammit we should have the balls to kill to keep our own country free!
This is a circuit court so the fine may go to the state.
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How long before they demand that all crosses at Arlington Cemetery be removed?
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I agree with Hillaire Belloc on the Crusades. They began as wars to protect the Christian Holy Lands from interlopers who had slaughtered the Christians living therein and seized the territory. PC has no place in rewriting history.
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It's interesting that the flag borne by England is the "Flag of St. George" who was a decidedly Mediterranean (and legendary) saint whose cult eventually spread northward to the British Isles. He is traced from about the 4th century, I believe.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/saintg05.htm
The ACLU knows it is still too early to tackle the cemetary crosses. But the day will come when they will launch an all-out assault there, too.
However, most US war cemetaries overseas have crosses, and these cemetaries are maintained at least in part by US taxpayer monies.
The City of San Diego will henceforth be known as George Bernard Shaw City; San Francisco will become Robespierreville; Santa Cruz is now to be called City of Matter/Energy/Space/Time And Nothing Else; San Luis Obisipo will take the name Murray O'Hareburg; San Jose switches to the name of Aynrandia; and Santa Monica gets the big prize: Karl-Marx-Stadt.
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