Busload Arrested and Led Away from Ten Commandments

WTVM ^ | 08-20-03

[Selmo]

Supporters of Chief Justice Roy Moore have been handcuffed and led away from the Ten Commandments monument in Montgomery. They had refused to leave the monument after Moore lost a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon. The federal judge who ordered the monument's removal is now expected to consider a contempt of court finding on Friday. That could set the stage for the monument to be removed ... or fines imposed on the state.

Scores of Moore supporters sang and prayed outside the building as about 20 inside were removed from the rotunda. It wasn't immediately known if they would be charged by Montgomery police.

Associate Justice Douglas Johnston issued a statement saying he had proposed moving the monument to a private area of the judicial building after six o'clock this evening. He said that would avert any fines while Moore pursues appeals that could take months. But he said fewer than five of the justices concurred, and his proposal was not approved.

The associate justices have indicated they may take action later.

Stay tuned to News Leader 9 for complete Skyteam 9 live coverage.

[an amused spectator]

Powers are the antithesis of rights.

Antithesis - NOW there's a word you don't see every day, much less use. I'll still disagree - my Right to Keep and Bear Arms as a free-born person is pretty powerful, I'd say.

[BJungNan]

True Patriots! But far to passive to be effective.

[Destro]

If by religion you mean "God" I agree Deism is NOT a refutation of religion. But Deisim does refute the rules of religion and consider religous stories like those found in the Old and New Testament to be akin to fables and myths.

[sweetliberty]

I was talking one day with a lady that I work with and she was remarking about everybody always saying "God Bless America". She said that God already HAS blessed America and that it is time that America blessed God.

[F16Fighter]

"[A]re there any Judge Moore threads you've missed trolling?"

LOL...

He had to have missed at least a one thread -- Sinky was last seen driving THE bus away from scene with a rather big cheshire cat grin on his face....

[Luis Gonzalez]

But that's YOUR right, not the State's rights as Laurence Tribe argues.

"Antithesis...NOW there's a word you don't see every day, much less use."

Sorry, it's a second language to me.

[Chummy]

Jak sie masz, A. Pole!

Your juxtaposition of the Communist's certain segregation of the church and the Communist totalitarian state, with that of the liberty espoused in the US Constitution is breathtaking!

Freedom of conscience my dupa!

[an amused spectator]

Really now, how many people need the monuemnt in order to remember and practice the Ten Commandments?

I would consider this thing to be more along the lines of a flare on a night battlefield. You'd be surprised at what's slinking in the shadows. Nice tactical manuever by Moore. ;-)

[Prince Caspian]

OK, let's assume the courts enforced, on penalty of death, a new law requiring religious, Sabbath observance of the seventh day (Saturday) and an abandoning of any and all Sunday religious observance. What would be your response?

[Luis Gonzalez]

God granted people rights, and people granted government powers.

A huge difference bewteen the two, wouldn't you say?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"What would be your response?"

Which Justice has been reading Leviticus?

[Chummy]

What religious faith includes building Ten Commandment monuments as one of its practices?

It's not for either you or me or anyone else to comment on these individual's desire to display the Ten Commandments.

Really now, how many people need the monuemnt in order to remember and practice the Ten Commandments? Watched the news lately?

[concerned about politics]

Judge Moore lives in a state with a very Biblically based Constitution. The monument has historical meaning, and the laws of the state were based on these Commandments.
The state Constitution there and the Ten Commandments go hand in hand. It's in the Bible belt.

[sweetliberty]

"he had proposed moving the monument to a private area"

In other words, where no one would see it. There comes a point where you have to take a stand. Moore is right and the federal courts are out of control. They need to be reined in.

[an amused spectator]

Sorry, it's a second language to me.

My post was a compliment, my friend. I was going to expand on the beauty of Free Republic as a pleasingly literate forum (even sinkie used "cretin" as an insult), but "brevity is the soul of wit", so I cut it short. :-)

[Luis Gonzalez]

God grants rights, show me anywhere in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence...anywhere, where God grants rights to States.

[Chummy]

In the United States, the government is of the people.

It's not THEM.

(That's why you'll find the language in the Second Amendment, by the way.)

[Luis Gonzalez]

And I bet you that I've taken far more Civics classes and more recently than you have.

[cornelis]

God granted people rights, and people granted government powers. </i>

Well, let's see. The first two, God and people, have souls. Government, well that is a thing that tends to non-existence unless it is composed of the first two.