I heard this on the radio this morning.
Parents of Fallen War Hero To the President: Save The Mt. Soledad Cross
Tue, May 23, 2006
ANN ARBOR, MI – “There is no better place to honor our fallen heroes than under that cross, overlooking the country they fought and died to preserve.” These were the words of the parents of Marine Captain Michael D. Martino who was killed in action in Iraq, contained in a May 15, 2006
letter to President Bush, urging him to save the Mt. Soled
On November 2, 2005, Captain Martino was killed when his Cobra helicopter was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. This past week, Captain Martino’s Camp Pendleton Unit—a Marine air squadron that had just recently returned from Iraq—dedicated plaques at Mt. Soledad to honor him and his fellow pilot, Major Jerry Bloomfield, for their heroic service. Over three hundred fellow Marines stood in line for over three hours to meet and pay their respects to Robert and Sybil Martino, the parents of Captain Martino. Captain Martino’s father told the Thomas More Law Center, “I cannot express the sincere feeling of emotion we felt for our heroes and those Marines. We were truly glad that there was a place where you felt such peace under the cross, which overlooked the beautiful country they died to protect.”
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“In bitter irony, the very freedoms Captain Martino and Major Jerry Bloomfield died to protect are being perverted by the ACLU and atheists to deprive them and their grieving families the honor and solace they deserve,” said Richard Thompson, President of the Thomas More Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which has been working around the clock to save the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial.
Law Center trial counsel Robert Muise, a former Marine officer and veteran of the first Persian Gulf War, commented from first hand experience, “I am deeply moved by the sacrifices made by men like Captain Martino and the thousands of others in our armed services. I have witnessed them myself. Unfortunately, while these brave men and women are heroically fighting to protect our Constitution, the ACLU and activist judges are taking it apart. For the sake of our fallen veterans, we must fight to keep this memorial intact. Our veterans deserve it.” As a result of a lawsuit brought by atheist Philip Paulson, with the help of the ACLU, on May 3, 2006, Federal District Judge Gordon Thompson ordered the City of San Diego to remove the cross within 90 days or face fines of $5,000 per day. The removal of this cross and the concomitant destruction of this national veterans memorial will be a national tragedy and an affront to the many proud Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for this Country. One grieving family’s story tells it like it is.
The May 15, 2006, letter urges President Bush to take the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial under federal ownership and preserve the cross. The letter stated, “Our son loved his country and the many rights and liberties it provided . . . . Our son died with a strong belief that he was fighting to preserve the freedom of all Americans. Please let us have OUR freedom from activist judges and their personal interpretation of our Constitution.
http://www.thomasmore.org/news.html?NewsID=421
But get this...the same people who want to take away others rights or values spy on their on people. This is from an article on the NSA.
To anti-Bush partisans, the administration cannot possibly have any legitimate interest in domestic telephone records, and it was an outrage for Verizon, BellSouth, and AT&T to have supplied them. "We cannot sit by while the government and the phone companies collude in this massive, illegal, and fundamentally un-American invasion of our privacy," the ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, thundered last week. Funny -- that wasn't the way he spoke 18 months ago, when the ACLU itself was discovered to be using sophisticated data-mining to secretly amass information about its own members and donors. (Some ACLU board members were shocked by the revelation and publicly condemned it. "It is a violation of our values," board member Wendy Kaminer said at the time. "It is hypocrisy.") To be sure, the two cases are very different. The ACLU's data-mining was part of a fund-raising effort. The NSA's is part of the war effort.
So what is good for the goose is not good for the gander? Are we(being ACLU) hypocrites in sheeps clothing? 
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...29/199078.html
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