Posted on 09/29/2003 1:54:46 AM PDT by AnimalLover
Motivated by what he views as an assault on free speech by the ACLU, a Georgia man has launched a campaign to distribute thousands of Ten Commandments signs across the nation.
Robert Frey, a 33-year-old "average guy who's fed up and wants to do something," has set a goal of selling 100,000 signs, suitable for front yards, through a website, TheRevolutionWillBeLive.com.
"By joining together in this spiritual battle we can give the ACLU a nightmare of fits when it realizes that the more it and its ilk try to destroy America, the stronger we will be, the louder we will become," Frey says on his website.
He says for each 24" x 24" sign sold, $2 will be donated to the American Center for Law and Justice, a Virginia-based group defending Ten Commandments displays in many legal cases around the country.
The project is run under Frey's Enterprise Network Solutions, which he maintains as a for-profit firm to "retain its ability to speak freely on political issues such as the Ten Commandments."
As WorldNetDaily reported, a St. George, Utah, man's effort to post signs bearing the Ten Commandments around town has already resulted in hundreds of copies of the biblical laws springing up on private property.
Robert Anderson got the idea to distribute copies of the Decalogue after attending a rally in St. George to show support for the Ten Commandments and Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's fight to keep a display of the laws in the rotunda of the state's judicial building.
I just thought if it's not me, then who? If it's not now, then when?" Anderson told the Salt Lake City Deseret News.
Three years ago, the Family Research Council distributed hundreds of thousands of Ten Commandments book covers to school children as part of its nationwide "Hang Ten" campaign, which advocates display of the Decalogue, often on government property and classrooms
American Atheists of Texas responded in Dallas with an attempt to distribute its own book jacket, featuring quotes about atheism from American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair and historical figures such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen.
A Chicago media company, the Total Living Network, has been distributing free Ten Commandments book covers to students across the country through a program called "Operation 10."
Meanwhile, a Ten Commandments display was removed from a Montana courthouse lawn Wednesday, effectively ending a 4-year-old lawsuit by the ACLU.
As WorldNetDaily reported, in Wisconsin Wednesday, a federal judge set aside an earlier order declaring a Ten Commandments monument in La Crosse to be unconstitutional and has granted a motion clearing the way for the ACLJ to represent the owner of the monument, the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
A new trial has been set for Feb. 17, 2004.
Last month, Alabama's Chief Justice Moore was suspended for violating a federal judge's order by refusing to remove his Ten Commandments monument. The 5,300-pound display was moved to a storage room. Moore faces a misconduct charge and could be removed from office.
Frey said, "Now, instead of worrying about a single granite display of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of an Alabama courthouse, we can watch as the ACLU and its deceived followers go absolutely crazy over the thousands, if not millions, of Ten Commandments displays cropping up all over the American landscape."
I'll bet you'd think they were heroes if they were trying to pull down the Crescent.
Oh, wait, I forgot... by "religion" you meant exclusively Protestantism. Gotcha.
Now you're talking. This is the idea I've had for a long time. We can bankrupt them by deliberatly baiting them. I think it's the best idea yet. If they win one suit causing the removal of a religious symbol, a different party should step in and place another in the same spot. Different person, different lawsuit (we don't have to hire a lawyer, just represent ourselves and plead no-contest). They would have to pay lawyers, court costs etc. since they brought the suit. I've thought about going back to preaching on the public town square like preachers used to do when I was a child. How many times do you reckon I could get arrested?
Maybe they will get the hint...From the Founding fathers.
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Wish I had a nickel for each letter/E-Mail/phone call I've made to Feinstein, Boxer, Harman, Rorbacher(?) in Washington and Karnett, Lowenthal and Vincent here in California. After Davis, I'm considering starting recalls on all of the above.
That's OK - don't worry about it - we all take that road every once in awhile. I did buy the SUPPORT OUR TROOPS sign from Grassfire some months ago. If I remember correctly, that was $12.95 plus postage. It's all worth it - how many chances do we get to "stick" it to the ACLU!
The $2.00 (now $1.00) is donated to the ACLJ. (See below)
For each sign sold, we'll give $1.00 to the American Center for Law and Justice who fights for All American's Constitutional Rights.
For those who want to view the order site, here is the address: http://www.therevolutionwillbelive.com/
All signs are illegal. Since homeowners have agreed to the terms when purchasing the property it's hard to fight. Rather than sue the homeowner the association simply fines the homeowner. If he/she doesn't pay they put a lein on the house. Then the house can't be sold without the lein being paid.
There have been a few cases like this regarding people flying the U.S. flag in front of their houses in homeowner's associaitons. I'm pretty sure the people all lost. They signed agreeing to the rules in the first place (even though the rules are bad in many instances).
Now, to be devil's advocate... The rules do stop the 12 foot by eight foot Nazi flag from being flown as well as the U.S. flag. Just as the "no signs" rule stops the obmoxious signs from being posted. I own property in a homeowners association and live on property not in one. There are advantages to both. Personally I'd rather NOT have some little whiner in the neighborhood telling me what I can and can not do to my house (no associaiton).
IMHO, that's not big enough. Should at least be poster sized, 36x24. 3'x3' would be even better.
It's a great idea. Let's all print out copies of this announcement and distribute to our area churches!
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