Feds Remove Second Mojave Cross on Sunrise Rock
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, May 21, 2010, 4:46 AM
Last month the Supreme Court declared that the Mojave Cross on Sunrise Rock could stay where it was.
It was put up 75 years ago to honor World War I troops.
10 days later (leftist) vandals stole the 75 year-old cross from the rock.
Yesterday federal authorities removed the second cross that was put up to replace the first one.
The Press-Enterprise reported:
The Mojave Cross saga took yet another unexpected turn Thursday, when the contested symbol that vanished last week reappeared briefly before being taken down by federal officials.
National Park Service officials learned Thursday morning that a cross again was on top of Sunrise Rock, about 10 miles south of Interstate 15 near Cima Road, a sparsely traveled route into the Mojave National Preserve. It’s about 30 miles east of Baker.
Some version of the cross has stood there for 75 years as a tribute to fallen World War I soldiers. Vandals made off with the cross May 9, 10 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it could remain pending the outcome of a decade-long court battle over whether it should be permitted on public land.
Once federal officials discovered Thursday that it was a replica of the stolen cross, the Justice Department said it had to be taken down.
“It just gets crazier and crazier,” said Wanda Sandoz, who together with her husband, Henry, has acted as a caretaker for the cross for more than 25 years.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
nadadhimmi commented:
You see, Obama and the fascist/communist establishment view laws as restricting individuals only. Never the “government”. Only “the little people” must follow rules and laws you know. Thus is born tyranny, fear, hatred and a peoples revolt.
Militant Conservative commented:
I’ll obey the law when my leaders do. Better watch out this is going to spread. powder is dry.
neomom commented:
They are pushing us hard. Really hard. There is a few million people nearing the other side of enough. Pray for peace. Prepare for War.
Sickofobama commented:
So I guess this means when Obama and his Commiecrats are voted out they won’t be leaving D.C.
Obama plans on being in office for life.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
What is wrong with that?
Those old military vets just cling to their bibles and their guns. It’s time we disrespect them! Allahu Akbar!
I know the old story about America settlers being from Christian countries. But, they are dead and gone – and so is America. Just look at the 57 billion Muslims who reside in this country. Isn’t it time for a Change? I say Sharia law for all!
My limousine is running and I have a meeting is CAIR. I think we have more cross up-rooting to do. Christian military people suck and so does America. Good day.
Neoavatara commented:
Why should we expect anything less from this Administration?
http://www.neoavatara.com/blog
Terry Gain commented:
Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim practicing Taqiyaa.
GrayRider commented:
I’m confused. What gives the feds the lawful right to remove the cross? Anyone have any doubts that we have an outlaw administration?
Chip Bennett commented:
So, will the ACLU go after Arlington National Cemetery next? After all, it too has crosses, and more crosses, and even more crosses.
By the way, from the article:
So, how about throwing the editor of the High Desert newspaper in jail for contempt of court, for failing to disclose the identity of the person who claims in his letter to be the perpetrator of trespassing, vandalism, theft, and destruction of property?
JimNash commented:
We are sliding down a very dangerous slippery slope when the Justice Department ignores the Supreme Court…time for Americans enmasse to begin ignoring the laws of this banana republic…why should we follow the law when our own government and leaders don’t?
Blacksmith8 commented:
Do y’all remember WHY the SCOTUS said the cross could stay? Because, it’s on PRIVATE land. The spot where that cross has stood is PRIVATE. Where’s the warrant that “Federal” officials used to take the new cross?
Gonzalez, TX 1836, ‘Come and take it’
Just_Saying commented:
Well said, Jim Nash. So, the Obummer Administration (DOJ) is now blatantly ignoring the Judicial Branch, and has control over the Legislative Branch? Sounds dangerous.
Here we go…
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Jack commented:
Sounds like “the people” need to take matters into their own hands…with dry powder.
TXBitty commented:
The feds didn’t read the ruling.
Michigan commented:
I wouldn’t want to be the guy who was ordered by his bosses to take it down. God have mercy on those idiots.
Chris commented:
Let’s see if I have this straight…..by extension…..
(So far at least…) The Supreme Court has upheld your right to own a personal firearm.
So the gun you have owned for years is safe — until…..
Some scumbag steals it.
Then you purchase another one to replace it.
Without any forewarning, along comes some cranial-vacant twit who confiscates the newly-acquired firearm from you, all in the righteous name of upholding “THE LAW”….
(How DARE you obtain a substitute to replace your illegally-stolen property! Why da noive, da noive of ya!!)
All this, of course, sounds perfectly “logical” in the alternate universe that this current Administration inhabits.
Brethren, let us pray!
Auntie Em commented:
They are doing their best to incite anger and hurt the morale of this country.
Psalm 71
In thee O Lord do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me: for thou are my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou are my hope, O Lord God: thou are my trust from my youth.
In GOD we Trust.
Aitch748 commented:
OK, so now the feds are openly flouting the Supreme Court?
Apparently the law in the Obama Age is just whatever you can get away with.
Opus #6 commented:
D.C. has become the District of Criminals. How bold they are.
jomojava commented:
To the Sultan Al-Obama Administration, the law means what they say it means – they are the ultimate supreme court.
In actuality, they are nothing but a cabal of cockroaches. Keep shining the light!
Robert commented:
They choose to vigorously enforce in this instance, and they choose NOT to enforce in the instance of immigration and border security.
I think we all should begin picking and choosing which federal laws we want to comply with, and if legal proceeding result, then argue in court that the federal government has no legitimacy because it is not enforcing the law equally.
Rock commented:
And yet Muslims are granted a building permit for a Mosque within the shadows of the World Trade Center site, this is no accident, and we just keep turning the other cheek, please. Lastly it is beginning to sound like the theft was a ploy to circumvent the Supreme Court decision, the only question, how far up the chain does this scam run. It would seem that the current administration has no qualms about disrespecting our Vets, and their sacrifices, while at the same time embracing the religion that prays for our defeat.
Highlander commented:
By this action federal officials become complicit in the vandalism that removed the first cross. One can now reasonably wonder if they were.
TalkinKamel commented:
Highlander, I suspect they were, and that’s why all the hush-hush stuff about the mysterious email, and why we can’t release the name of the “veteran” who stole the cross.
I’m sure Arlington is next on the agenda.
But don’t you dare draw a picture of Mohammed! That offends Moslems.
Robert commented:
We are approaching a point where the federal government has its authority based solely on its monopoly of the use of force, rather than in concert with the consent of the governed.
This is due to the actions of that same federal government, and its practical and also now philosophical failings to adhere to the traditional standards of moderate governance that have served the nation so well for over two centuries.
The behemoth is becoming a tyrant that
acts to serve its own end purposes.
Jack commented:
Makes me wonder if they stole it the first time.
archer52 commented:
Well Jim,
At what point do all of you realize this is a war between two groups of people, one that plays by the rules and gets kicked in the nods every play and the other group that does what it wants and has the backing of government.
The park service says it is investigating the theft of the first cross after the ruling. Here’s a thought, they have a second theft they should be investigating, the one THEY did.
If the Supreme Court of the land, the one the left claims should be followed when it sides with THEIR positions, says the cross stays, then the cross stays. Whether it is the old one, new one, one made out of spaghetti noodles and Elmer’s glue, it should remain there.
However, we are seeing the cold, hard fact that the weakest branch of the government is the judicial. It only functions when the other two branches follow its rulings in good faith. Unless John Roberts is going to get off the bench, strap on a gun and sit on top of that hill protecting the cross and his ruling, then it really doesn’t matter what they say.
In communist countries judges are just there for the show. That is why they call them “show trials”. There is no real justice, no real right and wrong, only what the leaders of the “state” says is the outcome. Read Mao. Pay attention. This is not a game. I predicted this would happen in my novel (www.revoltthebook.com). It has to happen. It is the natural order of things.
I predicted around 2015, but Obama’s victory opened a window all the hard-line lefties jumped through. You will pay three times what you pay now for electricity. You will drive cars you don’t want. You will find you can’t send your kids to the colleges you want unless you get “approval” by some representative of the government. You will also find “incentives” like being a good union member or in the government will get your kid preferred status.
All of this has happened before in other nations, it is just our turn now. How we respond, how we handle it that determine our nation’s fate. This has happened here twice before- 1776 and 1858. One war started this nation, one led to implementation of the heavy handed centralized government concept which has expanded itself to the point that now a cross, a simple cross, approved by the Supreme Court can be stolen twice- once by a anarchist vandal and then by the government- and we all just wonder what to do next.
As one of your posters mentioned, sooner or later even the nicest dog, if kicked enough, will bite back.
Welcome to the war.
aprilnovember811 commented:
This is what happens when the Supreme Court, and my guess is John Roberts, refuse to hear a case, that Obama is an impostor. In his mind, and those that surround him, it meant, they won’t be challenged, and they can commit any crime they want. Look at this story. Do you think we might have a President, who lied about his identity? No, couldn’t be, because the pathological liar, said he was born in Hawaii, uh huh.
http://www.atlanticbb.net/news/read.php?ps=1018&rip_id=%3CD9FR38400%40news.ap.org%3E&news_id=17891170&src=most_popular_viewed
I used to view our military upper brass, as those who were looking out for our country, and citizens. Now, I view them, as aiding, and abetting, the enemy, in Barack Hussein Obama, hmm,hmm,hmm.
Toaster802 commented:
This bit of video from “The last of the Mohicans” says it all…http://greenmnts.blogspot.com/2010/05/check-please.html
If at anytime they think they can walk into a Military graveyard, Arlington or other, and deface the headstones, that will be our Lexington and Concord. And their Waterloo.
The theft of the replacement cross is just as bad as the theft of the first one. By my guess, both were taken by the same thieves.
Andreas K. commented:
Oh FFS!
Leave the cross there already! Bloody rabid left wing. And bloody feds.
I wonder what the men, who this cross is dedicated to, would say about this madness.
OMG! An atheist just defended a cross, a Christian symbol! The world is ending!
If it is really ending? Hell, it’s about time.
Kevin commented:
The reward for the arrest of the vandals, who stole the original ww1 veterens war memorial has been increased to $125,000 due to an anonimous veteran donor. ( vfw.org/news )
I hope that this will help find the perpertraters of this dispicable crime.
Opaobie commented:
“When I helped erect this sacred memorial in 1934, two decades after my wounded Dough Boy buddies and I returned from ‘The War to End All Wars’, THE World War, and recuperated here in the dry, warm desert….”….Hey BLUMENTHAL, GIVE IT A REST!!!
Opaobie commented:
Maybe they need to make the next one out of Uranium-235…it would make it easier to find the thief if it ever gets stolen again.
Osamas Pajamas commented:
I’m an atheist — and I support leaving the cross where it has stood all these years as a tribute to the fallen in an American war of liberation. We are ruled by fools and lunatics and we have to get rid of them — fast. If they steal the elections in 2010 and 2012, we still have the same “right of revolution” that John Locke, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine had at the time of the First American Revolution. A note to Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer: Get out of our way.
nobody commented:
Since we don’t know what laws to follow, i propose that we put the cross back up, and continue to put it back up every time it’s taken. If it’s a crime to put it up then put it up and take me to court to find out which law I should follow, just keep the cross up. I think that if we continue to keep the cross up they will get tired of this game and effort to seek media fame from taking down the cross. News line “cross taken again and local citizen’s put up another” will soon fad away.
jacgar commented:
Just need some Ole Hells AngelsVets to track down the A Holes who tampered with the Vet Memorial..A good Biker A Kicking would stop this BS..BUT !!!!,When are the American People going to wake up and realize that their Country has been{not being],stolen from them…Al Capone must be grinning rfrom ear to ear seeing how the Chicago Mob has taken TOTAL Power over the United States..That includes ALL the Courts..Congress didn’t need taken over,it has always been the most Crooked Organization in America..{Proof ? } How can TWO Trillion Dollars be unaccounted for and no attempt being made to find it..Hell,even an Idiot knows where it’s at…Stolen by Politicians and HAAAVARD Elites and Clans of Kennedies ,Bushies and now Obamies..Nothing short of a Revolution will be needed to reclaim America .
Laura Ruby commented:
Make no mistake…this would be dictator is power mad. Now no more press – even the lapdogs that worshipped him have been given the boot. He has his own propaganda machine. He’s picked something like 30 czars w/o congressional approval. He flouts laws and the constitution at every chance. Most dangerous is his foreign despot ass kissing policy and bragging about how we will not return a nuclear attack. My fellow Americans…read “The Blueprint” by Ken Blackwell and “They must be stopped” by Brigitte Gabriel. Pray and arm yourselves. We have a rogue government…and yes, keep putting up that cross.
Telemacchus commented:
By the time the Obama administration ends, we’ll be hunting down Democrats in the woods. With dogs. At night.