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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: thundley4 on May 11, 2010, 10:45:14 AM
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(http://www.justice.gov/enrd/Anniversary/100th-Files/APPELLATE/cross_on_mojave_-_NPS.jpg)
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."
The cross was erected in the 1934 by a veterans group as a tribute to their fallen brethren in World War I. It has been the subject of a decade long court battle between those who want it to remain and those who believe it violates the separation of church and state.
In a split decision late last month, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that the cross must be removed. The High Court remanded the case back to federal district court in Southern California. The ruling was a major victory for proponents of the cross, but the American Civil Liberties Union vowed to renew its opposition to the cross. Link (http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webmojave.15f87a6.html)
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This country could be heading to civil war plus wars with Muslims and colonists from the south.
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Will post at FR
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Find who did it. Nail them to it. Problem solved.
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This is America...put up one bigger and better...shine a spotlight on it so it can be seen at night.
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Uh oh.
I pasted this article at FR and the FReepers are mad. A moderator placed it in 'Breaking News' and its nearing 50 posts now, probably going to be a lot more than that.
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Not just torn down. STOLEN!
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=69916
Notice that supporters of the cross left the wooden box covering it alone for 10 years while the fate of the cross was decided in the courts. It only took opponents of the cross 2 weeks to decide that their will supplanted the will of the highest court in the land.
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I'm willing to bet that whoever did this has cut it up and scattered the pieces of it.
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Sickening! I hope so badly that the thieves are caught.
Here (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4376794) is the DUmp's thread on it. Nothing surprising.
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Such a fine example of tolerance
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It is eye opening how the left deals with issues they have not won!
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Some Veteran groups are offering $25,000 reward for any information. The creeps will get caught.
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This is another one of those, "If only I was filthy rich" things.
I'd build one a thousand feet high and light it up with umpteen thousand lights, hire a staff of lawyers and fight the liberals in court until doomsday.....I guess you can say, "It's a good thing old JohnnyReb ain't rich because he'd stir up some shit."
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Build a new one bigger ,stronger and light it so much that you can see it from space.
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This country could be heading to civil war plus wars with Muslims and colonists from the south.
I think a civil war is inevitable. It is a matter of when.
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I think a civil war is inevitable. It is a matter of when.
yup
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I say, build a new one and go and stealthily install it during the night, same as how they stole this one.
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I think a civil war is inevitable. It is a matter of when.
It only takes the right spark to set it off.
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Crap like this is what convinces me that a proportion of atheists out there are every bit as nasty as fundamentalist muslims and every bit as determined to silence any point of view that differs from their own.
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I hope the assholes that did it are caught soon
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The VFW has a $25K reward for these asswipes.
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The VFW has a $25K reward for these asswipes.
I thought it was the feds.
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It may be both. I dunno. I just know that I saw on the news this morning that at least the VFW had posted a reward.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0511/Mojave-cross-theft-shows-planning-veterans-groups-vow-to-rebuild
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I think a civil war is inevitable. It is a matter of when.
I agree!
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