I think you all know how we feel about any messing with memorials to our war dead... looks like we could win this one if the pressure is kept up and a few calls made. Please pass on to anyone you think might go the extra distance. From the prior posts it didn't seem to ignite a lot of passions... with events to come, seems like as good a time as any to draw the line in the sand.
I've had trouble getting through to Rep. Lewis' office the past day or two, will post a better contact when I do.
First Salute:
I very much enjoyed your take on this issue from an earlier posting on Free Republic. (First link of two) I was particulary struck by your comment below, and would seek permission to include it on our website's front page under the story post.
You wrote: "Our individual Liberty and our individual responsibility, our duty, require us to exert our authority as the people, to bear down upon judges, lawyers, and "legal experts" who mock the sincere efforts of George Washington and our forebears."
As one who constantly uses the vehicles of Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act, one of my other sites (
http://crimewatch.us) expresses "Legislative intent" versus reality:
Preamble to the California Public Records Act:
"The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist they may retain control over the instruments they have created."
Ahhh yes... but my spin...
The California Legislature may have authored these words, lofty by any standard, but in practice, "we the people" have tolerated government's obstructionism, duplicitous denials, prevarication and outright intolerance to the Public's right to know. Where such arrogance thrives, so do does unchecked corruption.
Edmund Burke may have said, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." If we do not convert our words into an action, our voice is lost in the forrest of apathy.
More than a handful of people need to hear your message and act on it. Thank you for the insights.
Gitmo...
I hope you'll stay on this issue and help ignite an action plan.
pinging the old Klamath list for support.
I suggest that those who are offended by the cross go out and confront those who are maintaining the cross directly
I suggest that the offended party get its affairs in order first, however. The folks I know who can live in the desert and prosper are more than a bit tough and tend toward surly when unnecessarily bothered.