Saving Veteran’s Memorials from ACLU’s Secular Cleansing Agenda
July 9, 2009 by Bridget Blanton
Filed under Features
Once again the ACLU has debauched sacred ground with their deceitful misappropriation of the Establishment Clause, as part of an ongoing search and destroy mission against symbols of America’s religious history and heritage. In the latest episode of its “secular cleansing litigation”, a sinister coast to coast road show, the ACLU has taken its extortion/surrender strategy out to the unforgiving terrain of the Mojave Desert. Their target is the Mojave Desert Cross, erected atop Sunrise Rock in 1934 by The Veterans of Foreign Wars as a memorial to honor WWI veterans.
Government officials covered the cross with boards, when the memorial became the bull’s eye in another mendacious, ACLU-instigated Establishment Clause lawsuit. The act of covering the cross was done in advance of the improbable event that someone who might be offended by the cross might also decide to hike the 11 miles off the nearest road and through the harsh, desert landscape to the site of the memorial.
In a move to save the Mojave Desert Cross, Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) sponsored legislation in 2004 which authorized a transfer of the one-acre memorial to private ownership in exchange for twenty acres which were then assigned to the Mojave Desert Preserve. Congress authorized the transfer through the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2004 thereby removing it from federal jurisdiction.
However, the notorious 9th Circuit Court, no stranger to arrogant judicial fiats, overruled this Act of Congress. The court issued an order approving the destruction of a memorial that has existed for over 70 years on the basis that it violates the Establishment clause; an overt distortion of the First Amendment religion clause. Moreover, it is an example of a clear and present danger that exists in an overreaching judiciary who have given themselves a veto power over both the Legislative and Executive branches of government.
The Democrat-funded ACLU has launched an attack on any and all public expressions of religion and is pocketing millions of dollars of taxpayer money in attorney fees. But wait a minute, the ACLU has no actual attorney fees, as they never charge the people they use as plaintiffs; yet that doesn’t stop the ACLU from taking tax payer money better spent elsewhere.
A typical scenario involves the ACLU threatening small town governments with unmerited and intimidating Expression Clause litigation over religious symbols present in their public seals. These small towns can’t afford to spend the treasury on a lawsuit and so they surrender and remove the supposed ‘offensive’ religious symbol from their public seal. In the case of the Mojave Desert Cross, the ACLU has been awarded or extorted over $63,000 so far, in court ordered attorney fees that are paid for by taxpayers, who by and large have no problem with Veteran’s Memorials.
For the American Legion, enough is enough. Their creed, “For God and country” a guiding principle since their inception in 1919, says it all. Along with the majority of Americans, they have had it with this fanatical litigation and the endless attacks on our religious heritage and our Constitution. We have a right to honor the service and the sacrifice of our veterans in a manner that we the people see as fitting. This right is not subject to distortion by a single, activist judge in league with an elitist, secular progressive attorney from the ACLU and a so-called ‘plaintiff’ with no real injury.
Members of the American Legion are committed to fighting back and have joined with other legal defense groups to stop the ACLU. The Legion has launched a public effort supporting the ‘Veterans Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, And Other Public Expressions of Religion Act’ (PERA), currently pending before the House as HR 1300. This is not the first ‘go around’ in Congress for this particular piece of legislation. This bill was first proposed back in 2007. It passed the House with 97% of Republicans supporting it and 87% of Democrats voting against it. The bill never became law. This past March, the legislation was introduced again by Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN).
This legislation will amend the Civil Rights Attorney Fee Act, a federal law intended to assist the poor in obtaining legal counsel for claims involving true violations of Civil Rights not the bogus variety the ACLU brings on behalf of their social engineering agenda. The ACLU has profited immensely from exploiting this loophole. The ACLU received $940,000 in attorney fees when the city of San Diego settled in a lawsuit designed to drive the Boy Scouts out of Balboa Park. The ACLU received another $90,000 from Chicago Schools as a result to ban Boy Scouts from schools; here, the ACLU got a fat check and succeeded in banning the scouts from campuses in Chicago.
The passage of PERA will put an end to court-awarded, taxpayer-financed attorney fees going into the pocket of the ACLU via Establishment Clause litigation. Under the Civil Rights Attorney Fee Act, attorney-fee awards are purely discretionary. Judges are not required under the Act to award fees, yet in the case of the ACLU where there are no actual fees incurred, the judiciary sees fit to award fees according to ‘market rate’ which in urban areas can amount to $350.00/hour. Furthermore, support for PERA will send a message to Congress to exercise its authority under the Constitution to deny jurisdiction to the judicial branch regarding Establishment Clause litigation against Veteran’s Memorials. I urge you to contact your elected officials to support PERA and to demand an answer as to where they stand on this issue.
The ACLU is politically motivated and it believes, fanatically, in a right to accomplish the objectives of a social engineering agenda through the assistance of activist judges and not the legislative process. In the words of Rees Lloyd, former ACLU lawyer and veteran: “It should not be forgotten by either Congress or taxpayers that this attack on a veteran’s memorial was brought by the ACLU of Southern California, whose Executive Director, Ramona Ripston, is married to 9th Circuit Court of Appeal Justice, Stephen Reinhardt, the most reversed justice of the most reversed Circuit Court of Appeal in the U.S.”
Contrary to the fanatical discourse of the ACLU, groups such as the Boy Scouts pose no threat to America. The ACLU and their rabid allegiance to a non-Constitutional, secular cleansing agenda is the real enemy.
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ACLU, where to start, so much history havoc everywhere they plant their seed, entire towns up in arms over the very presence of the ACLU.
The fact that our Government covered up the cross in advance so as not to offend anyone reveals a weakness in our military. What a shameful strategy to throw in the towel before the fight even begins. Knowing that your safety depends on the actions taken by our military; do you feel confident that they are up to task?
They caved in to the thought police, our Military quit due to a scenario before it happened. They gave the liberals ammunition to continue their push for total dominance based on fear of what might happen. They lost a battle that was never fought. They helped Goliath become bigger in defeat over fear of offending someone. The ACLU beat them, the same group of people that are too afraid to face the enemies of the United States of America but overly confident in killing babies before they exit the Mother’s womb.
What next, the 9th circuit of appeals over ruling a deal, an agreement with Congress to keep the cross?
The fact is they did if it wasn’t true it would be laughable on a scale of unbelievable. It is the most ridiculous form of govern I have ever heard of.
Who was the cross hurting? 70 years and finally it became center of attraction, why?
The money we pay to defend the indefensible is monumental. Indefensible I say because the ACLU is one with the Courts and Congress.
They play us like a fiddle, they know how much money we will spend defending a silly issue. It is not about right and wrong, it’s not about hurt feelings, what the agenda boils down to is “because they can.” They do, they have and they will until we take back America.
Let’s compile a resume of all of the ACLU’s wins, the courts who found in favor of the ACLU and the individuals directly involved with the shenanigans that the ACLU hires to find targets of their destruction.
From there let us put each and everyone involved direct or indirectly with the wins and losses of the ACLU at our expense and charge them for what it all boils down to.
Their rules, their idea are their laws, their addiction to make enemies out of ordinary neighbors have gone on for too long. It is time to hold them accountable to a lifetime of hate crimes. Domestic terrorists gaining muscle everywhere they go using hateful bully tactics to wreck the lives of people who never stepped foot in their yard. They come to us to pick a fight, they follow us from one school to another, and they stalk us from the workplace to our homes. They are the one’s intimidating us, its what they want, they want us to fear them and so we do.
They have ruled over us for a couple of lifetimes now with hate mongering, bully tactic, stalking practice, hostage taking hate crimes.
They are all guilty of committing hate crimes, it’s time we made that fact known and put an end to their law breaking lifestyle.
They are the haters, I know it, you know it, they know it too.
The Democrats hate us, the Courts hate us, the Congress hates us and Barack Obama hates us, why the hell are we the ones charged with hate crimes?
Raymond Newberry