Thanks to the Blog “Stop the ACLU” we often hear of the stupidity that is carried out in the name of liberty. On occassion liberty does win out.
So here are two good results in the ACLU being stopped. The first is for a 10 commandments display.
A Ten Commandments monument that has stood on the courthouse lawn for almost 50 years does not promote religion and can remain in place, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge James Carr said Tuesday that the monument can stay because the motives for placing it outside the Lucas County courthouse were secular and not an endorsement of a specific belief.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sued Lucas County in 2002 to have the display removed, saying it was unconstitutional and promoted religion.
And one for the Patriot Minutemen.
On Tuesday, deputy state Land Commissioner Richard Hubbard called it a misunderstanding by the employee. He said the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers were invited by the landowners to do ranch work in addition to their patrols, which gives them the right to be there.
???They are authorized to be there under the terms of the lease,??? Hubbard said.
Ranch owner Pat King, whose ranch includes some state trust land that she leases, said she has a contract with the group for the volunteers to monitor cattle, pick up trash and fix fences on her property, King???s Anvil Ranch.
She called the ACLU members misguided, out-of-town youngsters who don???t understand what people- and drug smugglers have done to her land and the valley.???Those American Civil Liberties Union persons up there are not concerned about me at all,??? King said. ???So they are not really the American Civil Liberties Union are they? Because they don???t give a darn about what has happened to my constitutional rights to property.???
The ACLU wouldn’t mind picking America apart piece by piece until it bleeds to death. Thankfully there are some courts that still dispense justice and patriots willing to stand up for what is right.
