Mojave Cross torn down by vandals

The Press-Enterprise ^

[GeronL]

The 76-year-old Mojave Cross war memorial in San Bernardino County's High Desert has been torn down by vandals, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the religious symbol could remain -- at least temporarily -- on public land.

Sometime Sunday night, the cross was taken down from its perch atop Sunrise Rock in the Mojave National Preserve, according to Liberty Institute, a group that represented veterans groups and caretakers of the cross in the recent Supreme Court Case.

"This is an outrage, akin to desecrating people's graves," said institute president Kelly Shackelford. "It's a disgraceful attack on the selfless sacrifice of our veterans. We will not rest until this memorial is re-installed."

[chessplayer]

“The courts probably won’t let them replace it.”

Yup. It will never be replaced. Libs say that a cross on private property is now a violation of separation of church and state.

[GeronL]

lol. Yes, it has gone that far.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Self censoring seems prudent. Despicable, but not surprising considering the source.

[culpeper]

Reminds me of a battle that goes on in NJ over a rock near Fort Dix on the side of Rt 539. Typically this rock is painted like the Stars and Stripes, then some commies come along and paint it green or in some other “progressive” motif, then a few days later its back to Stars and Stripes. This has been going on for years. Its nothing official but people are fierce in keeping that rock Red, White, and Blue.

[Blackhawk]

I know it might be considered blasphamy, but...

When they find the perps they should replace the cross and then nail them to it.

[GeronL]

interesting

[rcrngroup]

Very applicable & appropriate verse. The demonic bastards who did this will roast in hell, in agony & torment some day throughout eternity. The vision of them tearing down & desecrating the cross will be replayed over & over again throughout eternity.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. Sounded reasonable to me... ;-)

[Talisker]

It’s like it’s against the law to express religion.

Unless your "religion" teaches the murder of disbelievers or apostates and declares women to be property - then it's protected.

[TheDailyChange]

May Navy Seals find you PUNKS!

[dfwgator]

Or better yet, let the Russkies find them and give them the “Pirate Treatment.”

[cricket]

Was actually afraid this would happen. . .was hoping they could have some security means; but alas. .. no outlets in those rocks, for sure. Do hope they find the disgusting perps; maybe some satellite tracking info to check?

Surely, the fools who did this, will be bragging. . .

[Wpin]

What horribly sad lives are those who would do such a terrible act. Perhaps a good response Christians can make to this atrocity is to erect crosses on our own properties. We could blanket the nation with the symbol of our loving heavenly father and his son who gave so much for our sins. I think that I will put a large cross up on my farm. I have a nice hill to erect it on.

[BOBTHENAILER]

"It's a disgraceful attack on the selfless sacrifice of our veterans. We will not rest until this memorial is re-installed."

Any idea who perps are?

[AliVeritas]

I’m going to the DAV at the VA and the American Legion tomorrow; We have to start a fund to rebuild this cross...

Let me know if you see anything on a fund anywhere.

[AliVeritas]

Reminder.

Pride. They know all things and will be the highest. Those who can't create... destroy. They attempt to wipe out history and cultures. Same beast, different name. They have thrown down the gauntlet. When it's the Pieta, David or the Sistine Chapel, they will celebrate; When they get to the museums, MAYBE the rubes will realize it's Western civilization they mean to wipe out. As Mao said on the parable of the Monkey King and Princess Iron Fan... She was formidable, but he turned himself into an insect, then infected her from inside.

On Fulton Sheen:

Where, he asks, did the philosophy of Communism begin? Not in Russia, but in the Western world of the last century. It is western in origin: its philosophy is German, its sociology French, its economics English. Karl Marx, its founder, patched the dialectics of Hegel on to the materialism of Feuerbach, to the sociology of Proudhon, to the economic problems born of liberalism, and out of it came the new gospel which has now turned upon its creators to torment them for the past.

[Paladin2]

I haven’t seen any info (I don’t live anywhere close to the Mohave).

[chessplayer]

They will never find who did this. And I highly doubt they will put much effort into trying to find who did it.

[XHogPilot]

It’s like it’s against the law to express religion.

Where have you been? Its been a crime in the Democratic Peoples Republic of America since the 60s! Please pack your luggage; someone from the re-education camps will be knocking on your door soon.

[SoCalPol]

FOX News early this morning did a segment on the Mojave Cross.

If a Muslim marker ripped off, all hell would break out.