A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....08-25-03....Showdown In Montgomery

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[Aquamarine]

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Showdown in Montgomery

After hearing the pleas for people to go show their support for the Ten Commandments controversy in Montgomery last Wednesday, my husband and I loaded up the dog and went on down. Listening to the radio on the way, we learned that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore lost a last-ditch appeal to keep a Ten Commandments monument in the state judicial building, thus clearing the way for its removal.

We arrived about 5:30 that afternoon. Upon hearing the Supreme Court refused to intervene, some Moore supporters kneeled while others stood at the monument, which is directly across from the entrance to the rotunda.

The Courthouse was closed at 4 o'clock (an hour early) and protesters were told to leave. After refusing to leave, they were handcuffed by Montgomery police and led, one by one, out of the rotunda. Several of the protesters refused to walk and were dragged from the rotunda.

About a hundred Moore supporters sang and prayed outside the building as those inside were removed from the rotunda. A total of 21 protesters were arrested and taken to the Montgomery County Jail.

We parked below the courthouse and walked up on an unsettling scene of police and media. A man told me that the the protesters that had been arrested would be coming out via the basement of the Courthouse in a bus any minute.

I was able to snap these pictures while applauding the people on the bus for the sacrifices that they were making. You can't see their faces in the pics but I have to tell you that I could, and they looked like angels!

We then walked to the front door of the Courthouse up a flight of marble steps and took some pictures of the monument through the glass front door. They had just finished a big interview and the cameramen still had their lights on, making it very hot and stuffy. Could actually feel the sadness and frustration lingering in the hot southern Alabama air.

As night wore on, more and more people came to this area to give support. Many of the women were sitting on the steps crying. A local minister sitting on the ground next to me said that few religious leaders in Montgomery have supported Moore publicly.

More protesters began to pour into the area in front of the courthouse as a Christian Youth band set up their instruments and played modern Christian music, which changed the mood of the crowd, and the scene became more uplifting. Several minister's from different parts of the country went to the microphones and gave pep talks and prayed with the crowd. One special moment was when a Minister from New Jersey had everyone kneel and pray.

It was an unforgettable experience and we left that night feeling a combination of shock over what's happening to the underpinnings of our country and a sense of optimism that people were starting to wake up to the threats to our freedom and liberty and are beginning to take their stand.
~ Aquamarine

"This case is not about a monument, it's not about politics or religion, it's about the acknowledgment of God.
We must acknowledge God because our constitution says our justice system is established upon God." ~ Judge Roy Moore

With thousands in attendance on August 18, 2003, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore delivered the following poem:

Our American Birthright
One nation under God was their cry and declaration,
Upon the law of Nature's God they built a mighty Nation.
For unlike mankind before them who had walked this earthen sod,
These men would never question the Sovereignty of God.
That all men were "created" was a truth "self-evident,"
To secure the rights God gave us was the role of government.
And if any form of government became destructive of this end,
It was their right, their duty, a new one to begin.

So with a firm reliance on Divine Providence for protection,
They pledged their sacred honor and sought His wise direction.
They lifted an appeal to God for all the world to see,
And declared their independence forever to be free.
I'm glad they're not here with us to see the mess we're in,
How we've given up our righteousness for a life of indulgent sin.
For when abortion isn't murder and sodomy is deemed a right,
Then evil is now called good and darkness is now called light.

While truth and law were founded on the God of all Creation,
Man now, through law, denies the truth and calls it "separation."
No longer does man see a need for God when he's in full control,
For the only truth self-evident is in the latest poll.
But with man as his own master we fail to count the cost,
Our precious freedoms vanish and our liberty is lost.
Children are told they can't pray and they teach them evolution,
When will they learn the fear of God is the only true solution?
Our schools have become the battleground while all across the land,
Christians shrug their shoulders—afraid to take a stand.

And from the grave their voices cry the victory has been won.
Just glorify the Father as did His only Son.
When your work on earth is done,
and you've traveled where we've trod,
You'll leave the land we left to you,
ONE NATION UNDER GOD!

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[Diver Dave]

Outstanding presentation today. Thank you and thank you to you and Mr. Aqua for making the trip to Montgomery.

From the Modesto Bee this morning...

Attorney called to Alabama

[deadhead]

"Who started the movement to have the Commandments removed?"

I believe it was the ACLU

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you ! ...

[Calpernia]

>>>I believe it was the ACLU

You are right! Reading their crap from their 'Religious Liberty list' now.

So, why can't we sue the ACLU for infringing on our history? Or religion? Or something?

[The Thin Man]

Well done, Aqua! Judge Moore certainly deserves our support.

[deadhead]

Check out some of the threads on Free Republic concerning the issue. Some good reading out there.

[FreeTheHostages]

Aqua! What a WONDERFUL job!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[UncleDudley]

Who started the movement to have the Commandments removed?

I heard Morris Disease at the Southern Poverty & Law Center, almost next door to the court building, had much to do with instigating this.

[FreeTheHostages]

firsthand account of this very important part of our history

Well put. It's great to have a first-hand account.

[The Thin Man]

Welcome back, stranger!

I faintly recall a "Pippin" but it's been so long I'm not sure. :-)

[HighRoadToChina]

BUMP!!!

[Aquamarine]

Thanks for the nice words DH. I know you would have been there if possible.

[Aquamarine]

Dave, this article gives me that - 'it's a small world'- feeling! While we were there Wednesday there was talk of busloads of Christian's arriving anytime from California. When the speaker asked who was from which states he called out CA twice as if anticipating a response. Now I see that they arrived the next day.

May God bless this attorney. I know the high humidity must be tough on him. I'm used to it and it was working on me!

[Calpernia]

Seems that the ACLU and Southern Poverty & Law Center go arm and arm with the google searches I just did. Where is the movement to fight these people back?

[Aquamarine]

God Bless Our Military



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[UncleDudley]

Where is the movement to fight these people back?

Good question. Anyone who sues Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty & Law Center, will be branded as a 'racist' on his website.

[Calpernia]

So this just seems to be an antiwhite/Christian movement.


Melvin Meyer, Jewish Editor of CRIMSON WHITE,
U. of Alabama Student Newspaper

The Biography of Joe Levin, the Jewish Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center which is located at the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center states that the persecution of a Jewish student at the University of Alabama, Melvin Meyer, one of Mr. Levin's Jewish Fraternity brothers, allegedly caused him to consider starting an anti-white legal center to persecute white organizations, a law center which would concentrate in a large part on extremist white groups as seen in Mr. Levin's statement, "Over time, that one incident forced me to re-evaluate the traditional southern attitude I'd grown up with." Thus, the Southern Poverty Law Center's origination point may have been a reaction by a Jewish lawyer to an incident in which another Jew was involved.

The same Southern Poverty Law Center website points out that Morris Dees was the Law Partner of Joe Levin prior to their deciding to start the Southern Poverty Law Center, stating, "Dees and his law partner Joseph J. Levin, Jr. saw the need for a non-profit organization dedicated to seeking justice. In 1971, the two lawyers and civil rights activist Julian Bond founded the Southern Poverty Law Center."

In the early 1960s, Joe Levin saw his University of [Melvin Meyer] Alabama fraternity brother persecuted for expressing unpopular views. Fellow students and the community at-large taunted Melvin Meyer, editor of the school newspaper, the Crimson White, because he courageously argued in favor of integration at a time when Alabama Governor George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door" to prevent black students from enrolling at the state's largest college.

The harassment directed at Meyer peaked when the Ku Klux Klan burned a 12-foot cross in front of Levin's Jewish fraternity house in the early morning hours..

"Over time, that one incident forced me to re-evaluate the traditional southern attitude I'd grown up with," Levin says.

Is it possible that the Southern Poverty Law Center was begun more to protect Jewish rights than Black rights based upon the statement of Joe Levin that he was greatly influenced by a symbolic and metaphorical freedom of speech and freedom of religion expression performed by the Ku Klux Klan "in front of Levin's Jewish fraternity house in the early morning hours" at the University of Alabama?

To be honest, the answer probably does not matter.

Nevertheless, a book might be written on that subject, or, perhaps a university graduate thesis for an interested student on the subject of "just what causes a civil rights law center to begin?"

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Southern Poverty Law Center's
Claimed Support Base

The Southern Poverty Law Center claims that it receives huge sums of money from a support base of 400,000 contributors. This claim is found on the SPLC Information Page.

However, since the SPLC is not government sponsored, its files may not be available for public inspection.

[jwfiv]

Inspiring and beautiful thread this monring, Miss Aqua...thank you....I'm glad you're on the front line in this battle between the Light and the Darkness...)

The USA and it's Foundation in Faith is under assault from within and without...the forces of Chaos are really pushing for a showdown.

"Bring 'em on."

I have a rock solid faith that Goodness will win...but gosh, it's a scary and dangerous ride, this Earthly life.

Hello to all our Hostesses, and all Freepers...welcome back, Pippin...)

[SassyMom]

Thank you for this great thread, Aquamarine. And thank you for going to "fight the good fight". Have a blessed day!

[Aquamarine]

Thanks! It's an honor to be able to play a small part in bringing this to the forefront.