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.
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Sadly, you've got that precisely right.
I used to work in a National Cemetery with such stones. {rounded ones} Look on the face of them. Their will be a cross, or Star Of David, or nothing if NRP.
The markers in the US cemetaries of Europe are simple crosses or stars of David. I have never stood on more palpably holy ground than when I stood among the white crosses and stars of David at Margraten, in the Netherlands.
They aren't operated quite like civilian ones. Ours used one single grave for vet and spouse. First death was buried 7 feet down or deeper if possible. The other to follow in death was buried on top. One stone provided by the VA had both names and DOB DOD plus the vets service and highest rank.
I also found out later one of the graves I was caring for there was my great great grandfather.
It is about time the ACLU's butt was kicked into a corner. The filthy scum need it, and if they think that less than one percent of Americans can define life in this country they also need their butts kicked. These rich, urban, self-proclaimed intellegentsia can not fathom the possibility that real America can tire of the ACLU's petty political preferences, and that real Americans could retaliate strongly against the ACLU's pettiness and peculiarity. Let's get the ACLU up unequivocally on the ballots some way and on the platforms in the coming elections and see if they are wanted or not. If not, their federal and judicial funding can easily be removed and thereafter, the few individuals who think peculiarly like the ACLU thinks can fund them directly. When there is no profit in the ACLU, these would-be political ambulance chasers will have to do what unemployed lawyers do. Which is what? Foment social rebellion in some other way which enriches them personally, I suppose. That's the only way to make a living they know.
An update:
Mon, Jun 26, 2006
Thomas More Law Center Continues Battle to Prevent Desecration of the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national, public interest law firm, filed an emergency motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this past Friday, seeking to reverse Federal District Court Judge Gordon Thompson’s May 3rd order to the City of San Diego to remove the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial cross by August 1st or face fines of $5,000 per day.
The Law Center’s emergency motion to intervene was filed two days after the Ninth Circuit denied San Diego’s request to stay the removal of the cross. The Court instead expedited the appeal, ordering briefs to be filed by July 19th and setting oral argument for the week of October 16th, two months after the Cross is supposed to be removed. The Law Center filed its emergency motion to intervene so that it can participate in the expedited briefing schedule and argument.
The Law Center also has pending before the Ninth Circuit its own emergency motion to stay the removal of the memorial cross pending resolution of its appeals in both the Ninth Circuit and a parallel state court case. The Ninth Circuit has yet to rule on this stay request.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel for the Law Center, commented, “We have made a pledge to fight this battle to the end, and we are doing that. Our heroic veterans continue to fight for our freedoms. We owe it to them and their families to continue to fight to preserve this national memorial that was erected in their honor.”
The Law Center’s emergency motion to intervene was filed on behalf of San Diegans for the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial, the organization responsible for Proposition A, a hugely successful referendary petition drive that transfers the memorial to the federal government. Proposition A passed by an overwhelming 76% of the vote in a special election held in July 2005. However, a state court judge halted the implementation of Proposition A, claiming that it violated the California Constitution. Atheist Philip Paulson, the one who challenged the cross in the federal lawsuit, is also challenging Proposition A in the California courts. The Law Center is also appealing the state court ruling.
Charles LiMandri, the West Coast Regional Director for the Law Center, commented, “We will not give up this fight. We will exhaust all options to save the Mt. Soledad veterans memorial. This memorial and what it stands for are too important to lose.”
Just despicable that any Judge would make such a ruling.
It seems the law is no longer about what is right and wrong or what a majority opf citizens wants, Its all about one ----head atheist who can join with the ACLU and push through their anti-Christ agenda.
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