Thread: Thieves steal cross after Supreme Court rules it can stay on Gov Land

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/...s_mojave_cross



This really bothers me. I hope these vandals get caught and jailed. They had their day in court and lost. It pisses me off to see them then just decide to take matters into their own hands, and cut down this memorial that's been standing since World War I. I hope they didn't damage it.

While I do not condone the theft of the cross.. Just a clarification here..



On a 5-4 vote in April, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to order its removal. The high court told a federal judge to take a new look at a congressional plan to transfer land under the cross to private ownership.





That was take from your article.. While the supreme court ruled it could stay.. It did order a judge to look at selling the land to a private owner.. There by also saying that it shouldn't be on federal land..



I have no problem with memorials.. I do have an issue with someone else assuming they are all christian and wish to be honored with a cross..



I think the cross should be there.. As should the Star of David and any other symbol of religion that might represent all the fallen soldiers of WWI.. Christians do not have a monopoly on america.. They never have and never will..

[quote name='gabebrooks' date='11 May 2010 - 01:36 PM' timestamp='1273603009' post='150052']

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100511/...s_mojave_cross



This really bothers me. I hope these vandals get caught and jailed. They had their day in court and lost. It pisses me off to see them then just decide to take matters into their own hands, and cut down this memorial that's been standing since World War I. I hope they didn't damage it.

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Actually the cross has been standing since 1932 as a memorial to WWI dead. The VFW is offering a $25,000. reward for the arrest of the scum that stole it. Why anyone would make a stink about it being there is beyond me. I've seen it. It's small and way out in the middle of no where.

[quote name='Bourne' date='12 May 2010 - 04:59 AM' timestamp='1273654767' post='150261']

Actually the cross has been standing since 1932 as a memorial to WWI dead. The VFW is offering a $25,000. reward for the arrest of the scum that stole it. Why anyone would make a stink about it being there is beyond me. I've seen it. It's small and way out in the middle of no where.

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Technically, the cross was destroyed sometime after it was erected in 1934 (not 1932) and was replaced.

[quote name='MajikMyst' date='12 May 2010 - 04:23 AM' timestamp='1273652587' post='150256']

I have no problem with memorials.. I do have an issue with someone else assuming they are all christian and wish to be honored with a cross..

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Oh get over yourself. Who assumed they were all Christian, just because some people CARED enough to create a memorial..? If the people who represented the fallen Jews or any other religion gave two shits they would have erected their own Memorial. You'd think it was a statue of 2 pigs giving each other Oral. It's a damn memorial honoring dead soldiers, do you have anything else to blame on Christianity that doesn't make sense..?

[quote name='Dr.Knuckles' date='12 May 2010 - 12:17 PM' timestamp='1273691832' post='150478']

In Canada defacing a memorial is actually a serious criminal offence. Up to 5,000 fine or up to 2 years jail or combination of both.

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Hopefully the perps "fall down the stairs on the way to court" too.

While it doesn't in any way justify the theft, it seems that many have forgotten the reason for the lawsuit. It was not merely that the cross was being challenged as a government-sanctioned religious symbol.



The lawsuit was filed on behalf of someone who sought a permit to build a small Buddhist shrine in the same area - and was denied. The Christian cross was allowed, but the Buddhist shrine was not. IMO, that's government promotion of one religion over another.