Rees Lloyd: Atheists Lose. WTC Cross Greenlighted for 9/11 NYC Museum

March 31, 2013

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It  must be an Easter Miracle: Temporary sanity has been resurrected in a federal court,  if not 

9-11 cross

in the minds of fanatic atheists who Taliban-like are on constant search and destroy missions to wipe out anything  even resembling the Cross by abusive Establishment of Religion Clause lawsuits.

 

While Americans  remain generally unaware of it, these atheists, agnostics, and progressive liberal secular extremists epitomized by the ACLU, request and receive from the courts millions of dollars annually by judge-ordered, taxpayer-paid attorney fee “awards” in cross-destroying Establishment of Religion lawsuits by exploitation of the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act (42 U.S. Code Section 1988) while pretending to be do-gooding, non-profit public interest law firms.  

 

For them, punishing and fleecing  taxpayers by filing their abusive cross-destroying lawsuits is a “win-win-win” proposition: First, they bludgeon public bodies into surrender to their secular-cleansing demands by threatening to sue and ask judges for attorney fee awards.

 
Second, if the don’t get a surrender and go ahead and sue and win by destroying a cross, or the Ten Commandments, they reap great profits in judge-ordered, taxpayer-paid attorney fee “awards.”  Third, if they lose in court, they actually win again, because they don’t have to pay attorney fees and costs of the governmental bodies who fightback against their secular-cleansing lawsuits, e.g., school boards, villages, towns, cities, states, the national government. They don’t have to pay the government’s attorney fees because filing a suit is a First Amendment right. 
 
It is a Catch-22 for taxpayers: If the ACLU is the prevailing party in an Establishment of Religion Clause case, it files a motion for attorney fees which like-minded judges (all lawyers, of course) almost always bestow upon them at taxpayer expense — in the millions. If the ACLU loses, it pays nothing to the prevailing party school board or other governmental body, and taxpayers are stuck with the tab of paying the attorney fees and costs of being proved right.

 
So, the ACLU and others exploit the First Amendment  and the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act for profit –although  was adopted by Congress to benefit poor people whose civil rights have been violated, not ACLU and other secular-extremist lawyers.
 
In short, ACLU and others of its ilk use the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act as a “club” to beat government defendants into surrender to their cross-destroying secular cleansing demands, on the one hand, or to enrich themselves by judge-ordered, taxpayer-paid attorney fees in lawsuits most taxpayers abhor.
 
That is why The American Legion, the largest wartime veterans in the nation, and the world, has long called on Congress to remove the authority of federal and state judges to award the ACLU and others of its ilk attorney fees in Establishment of Religion Clause cases by adoption of  the “Veterans Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, And Other Public Expressions of Religion Act (“PERA”).
 
PERA would create a level litigation field in which governmental defendants would not have to surrender to the ACLU and others for fear that if they lose, needed public funds for public services would instead have to be paid to the ACLU and other such secular-extremist vulture lawyers. PERA is again before113th  Congress but it has not yet been acted upon. 
 

The 9/11 Cross Case, which has now been thrown out of court in a rare instance of judicial common sense in an Establishment of Religion Clause case, is an almost perfect example of the fanaticism of extremist atheists. Read all about it in the report of CNN  (the good one, the Christian News Network, not the one umbilically tied to the White House).


What does it say about the power of the Cross, and the intellectual and spiritual emptiness of extremist atheists, that they would react so fanatically to the sight of the Cross?
 

HAPPY EASTER to one and all, including, of course,  atheists, agnostics,and the secular-cleansing liberal progressive extremists of the ACLU, who react to the Cross with fanatical Dracula-like fear. Boo!

 
(Rees Lloyd, longtime civil rights lawyer and veterans activist, is a member of the Victoria Taft Blogforce. His opinions are welcomed on this blog and are entirely his own)