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Oregon: Athiest Group Plants Improvised Explosive Device (IED) At War Memorial Cross
Gateway Pundit ^ | August 25, 2013 | Mara Zebest

Posted on 08/26/2013 1:34:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

An athiest group is believed to be behind an IED explosion at a war memorial cross in Coos Bay, Oregon. Coincidentally, the cross has been the recent target of lawsuits from the athiest group, “Freedom From Religion Foundation” (FFRF). If it is proven this group planted an IED, can we officially declare the FFRF group a terrorist organization? Luckily the explosion didn’t kill anyone and damage was minimal charring to the memorial.

Todd Starnes at FoxNews reports the following: Someone ignited an improvised explosive device next to a war memorial cross that a prominent atheist group wanted removed from a public park in Coos Bay, Ore., an attorney for the city told Fox News. An official statement on the city’s website called it an act of “criminal mischief” and stated that an ”unknown person(s) vandalized the memorial with an improvised explosive device.” “We unfortunately are now to the point where explosive devices are being placed next to crosses,” said Hiram Sasser, director of litigation at the Liberty Institute.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: atheism; atheists; domesticterrorism; oregon; terrorism
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To: HogsBreath
“Criminal Mischief”? Yes, because destroying a religious symbol is the same as the Banana in the Tail Pipe Trick.
41 posted on 08/26/2013 10:21:11 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: HogsBreath

I’ve only met a handful, and most of those were straight.
Chalk up to “not a representative sampling” on my end.


42 posted on 08/26/2013 10:25:10 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Washi

Can’t the town solve this problem by giving the atheists a permit to pile up “nothing” as high as they want in order to build their own “memorial”?


43 posted on 08/26/2013 10:49:24 AM PDT by pfony1
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To: ctdonath2
I once heard someone describe himself as a "devout atheist".

I laughed at them.

44 posted on 08/26/2013 12:08:57 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: WayneS

Yup, I call ‘em “devout atheists” too.
And also laugh at them.


45 posted on 08/26/2013 5:02:04 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: F15Eagle

“So, they’re fighting against a God they don’t believe exists?

What, is this a Democratic convention?”

Someone forgot to secure the door to the locked ward again.


46 posted on 08/27/2013 8:33:49 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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To: Wanderer99
I offer, in rebuttal, that the Downing Effect describes the tendency of people with low IQ to overestimate their IQ. This is my theory explaining Democrats.

I suppose we should be grateful that the American Left tends to build pre-detonating bombs.

47 posted on 08/27/2013 8:06:32 PM PDT by jonascord (Hurrah for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears a Single Star!)
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