Happy ACLU Day San Diego!
Posted on March 26, 2008
Yes, even after the ACLU cost them over $900,000 in city tax dollars in their attack on the Mt. Soledad cross, the San Diego City Council voted yesterday to pass a resolution “commending the American Civil Liberties Union of the San Diego and Imperial Counties for its continuous advocacy for the rights and freedoms of all San Diego†and proclaiming an “American Civil Liberties Union Day†in the City of San Diego. Give me a freaking break!
Two speakers opposed the recognition, including Heather Cameron, a representative of the law firm of Charles LiMandri.
LiMandri also serves as the West Coast director for the Thomas More Law Center, which along with other organizations, including the American Center for Law and Justice, donated thousands of hours of time to fight the ACLU’s demand that San Diego remove a historic cross from the Mt. Soledad Veterans’ Memorial. The case continued even after the federal government took over the site and San Diego no longer had control over it.
Cameron told the council members “one of the great myths†is that the ACLU started out as a pro-civil rights organization.
ACLU founder Roger Baldwin said, “Communism is the goal,†she told the council.
Cameron said Baldwin asserted that only a “small group of highly educated intellectuals†should dictate what everyone else believes.
In San Diego, the ACLU cost the city’s taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by raising the fight over the Mt. Soledad cross and continued the battle even after 76 percent of the voters supported maintaining the cross where it was built.
James Hartline, a Christian activist in San Diego, also spoke. He said the proposal to honor the ACLU was “one of the most repugnant acts†ever accomplished by the council and blamed the ACLU for a “long-term campaign of hate and religious bias against Christians.â€
He cited a previous case brought against the city by the ACLU in which the organization collected $900,000 from city taxpayers.
“We do not want our names to be used to honor the American Civil Liberties Union,†Hartline said. “You are doing so in our name.â€
A bipartisan team of council members, Tony Young and Brian Maienschein, opposed the resolution, and Jim Madaffer did not vote. The other five members – Kavin Faulconer, Atkins, Donne Frye, Ben Hueso and Scott Peters – went along.
Hmmm…maybe everyone will dress in orange jumpsuits and waterboard one another in the streets to commemorate the day.
Rick Roberts rants so I don’t have to:
Hey, San Diego! How will YOU celebrate ACLU Day? What, you haven’t prepared? Well, our local government sure did!
The City of San Diego took nearly one million dollars of your tax dollars to officially tell the ACLU, ‘as a city, we love you.’
What kind of representation is this???
OUR San Diego City Council voted IN FAVOR of an ACLU ‘Day of Honor’ just yesterday.
Kavin Faulconer, Toni Atkins, Donne Frye, Ben Hueso and Scott Peters all believe that we as a community should embrace 75 years of the American Criminal Liberties Union.
Is this accurate representation of OUR community?!
I think not. We’re not San Francisco. At least not yet. I would even go so far as to say that the City of San Diego isn’t exactly into defending illegal aliens, terrorists, and Fred Phelps…
Absolutely outrageous that a city counsil would vote for a day like this after the ACLU sucked them dry. Talk about representatives taking no account for the opinion of citizens they are supposed to represent. I mean, if they put it up for the people to vote they know it would never pass. Sickening. The San Diego city council should have their phones ringing off the hook.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin!
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Clearly, San Diego has big problems and the threat does not always come from the Democratic side. Please note the below article from the Gay and Lesbian times in San diego which contain the comments of Ralph Denney a Republican Candidate for this coming June primary. Kim Tran his opponant is a staunch supporter of the scouts and suppported the keeping of hte cross on Mt. Soledad. Please cast an educated vote this upcoming election. Denney garnered 40,000 plus votes in the 2006 primary because noone knew. Well now we know.
“GAY AND LESBIAN TIMES”
Progressive incumbent to face gay Republican in 76th District Assembly race
BY PAT SHERMAN
Published Thursday, 19-Oct-2006 in issue 982
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When Pat Sherman, a reporter for the Gay and Lesbian Times of San Diego, asked Denney about his position on abortion Denney stated:
“I would like to see a three-day cooling off period,†he said. “They walk in on a Monday, they say they want an abortion and the clinic gives them a non-religious pamphlet explaining their alternatives… They can throw it away on their way out and then come back on Friday and get their abortion.â€
Denney also stated he opposed the Boy scouts Scouts use of Balboa Park. Denney indicated he was in opposition because of the Boy Scouts policy barring gays and atheists from its ranks.†As if that was not enough he also supports medicinal use of marijuana and is unsure of whether needles should be given to drug addicts.
Last night I was out in the garage listening to Rick, filling-in for Savage, when he spoke about this.
I ran in-to the computer and went to search this up. Finally, on Michelle Malkin’s site I found it.(looks like WND is trying to scoop her?)
Let’s get dead serious here folks; the time has come to get these ACLUs located and tried-for sedition/treason, as a case-by-case basis applies.
Stop the ACLU could help by getting their offices addressed, and members located where they live.
Let the San Diegans take care of their council…they’re the fools that voted them in-in the first place.
This is glareing…..any boob pooh-poohs the idea that We don’t have enemies with-in here, in my face again, I’m going to kick the crap out of’um.
Stop the ACLU. They have gone far beyond the reason they were set up to do.
WTF????? As a San Diegan I am appalled at a level I cannot even describe. F*ck the ACLU.
I am one of the taxpayers who had to pay for the cross. And I am an atheist for f*ck sake. I like the cross there as did 3/4 of the population of this city.
And a special F-YOU to Scott Peters my councilman for voting yes to this travesty. You will not get my vote you total d-bag.