Posted on 05/04/2006 12:00:40 PM PDT by calpilot
Judge threatens fine to enforce '91 ruling By Onell R. Soto UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
May 4, 2006
NELVIN CEPEDA / Union-Tribune The cross was dedicated in 1954 as a war memorial. A federal judge moved to end a 17-year legal saga yesterday by ordering the city of San Diego to remove the Mount Soledad cross from city property within 90 days or be fined $5,000 a day.
“It is now time, and perhaps long overdue, for this Court to enforce its initial permanent injunction forbidding the presence of the Mount Soledad Cross on City property,” U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. said.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
I stood here once and watched the sunset over La Jolla cove one summer evening. Couples would have picnics on the steps of the cross. There is something very special and comforting about the cross on a hill. Ernest Gordon, a surviver of a Japanese POW camp in Thailand wrote in his book "To End All Wars,
"Our life on the horizontal plane was made meaningful at the point where it was met by the vertical.
At the point marked by the Cross we found ourselves." -E.Gordon
IMO it is all about the ACLU being true to it's Soviet Communist intentions. Add to the founder of that organs
favorite system of government-- the American organization
is now run by a flaming reprobate who wants to destroy
Christianity.Sad part is the ACLU is funded by the very
people who have worked to keep the Memorial intact. thanks to Congressional actattempting to encourage Civil Rights
litigation long abused by this enemy of th estate- (the ACLU)
Bump for the petition!
The city should just get some kind of endangered bird to nest in the cross. Problem solved.
Thanks for posting the petition URL. I cannot imagine Mt. Soledad without the cross.
True... and when you consider the old California Mission system is maintain by the state and/or is on state property.... when will the ACLU get a judge to order those destroyed also
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