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The Irish American Presidents
and their words of wisdom
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President
of the United States from 1829–1837
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.
distinctions of society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy and virtue, EVERY PERSON is equally to protection by law;
but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society---the farmers, mechanics and laborers---who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government."
"There are no necessary evils in government, its evils exist only in its abuses.
If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors
alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing."
Those words are a great and timely quote from Andrew Jackson who like many of our Presidents
was of Irish Heritage. Many scholars trace some of his financial success to an inheritance of 300 Pounds that he received from a relative in Ireland.
The bequest came at a time when he was having a financial crises.
Guest Commentary
Colleagues, and Patriots:
This to alert you that I have been invited to guest on THE VICTORIA TAFT SHOW, tonight, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, at 6:35 p.m., PDT, broadcasting out of Portland, OR, at 860AM, and heard nationwide live online at www.KPAM.com.
The subject of the interview will be on the U.S. Supreme Court's hearing oral argument today in the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case.
It will also include the New York Times, the self-proclaimed "newspaper of record," making an egregiously false assertion of alleged fact in its editorial today, citing what has been proved to be a "hoax" in support of the NY Times call on the Supreme Court to destroy the Cross at the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial. My demand letter to the NY Times to correct and retract its egregious error of fact is attached at the conclusion of this Broadcast Alert. Why the NY Times would perpetuate this hoax designed to deceive the American public, needs to be explained. Indeed, didn't the editors or reporters of the august NY T imes even read the court of appeal opinion detailing the facts before the NY Times pu blished an editorial falsely claiming that an alleged Buddhist had been discriminatorily=2 0denied the right to establish a Buddhist shine near the memorial? As detailed below, it is but a hoax concocted and carried out by ACLU's plaintiff Frank Buno, his phony crony Herman R. Hoops who invented the name "Serpa San Harold Horpa" to pretend to be a Buddhist, and the ACLU, which in nine years of litigation has known of the hoax but never corrected nor repudiated it when it was reported as a real instance of discrimination by the media. (See my letter to the NY Times below.)
The Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case will have nationwide impact, deciding whether 300,000,000 Americans will have the right to establish veterans memorials in manner in which American citizens and their communities choose, including symbols or expressions which have a religious aspect; or whether such choices may be vetoed by ACLU and the atheists, agnostics, and secular-cleansing fanatics it represents on claims they are "offended" by the sight of a Christian Cross, or other symbol with a religious aspect, at a veterans memorial.
Although most Americans are unaware of it, the ACLU is reaping millions of dollars in judge-ordered, taxpayer-paid attorney fee "awards" in Establishment of Religion Clause cases against veterans memorials, the Boy Scouts, and other targets of the ACLU's politically-driven, secular-cleansi ng fanaticism. The ACLU is exploiting the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act and other federal fee-shifting statutes to fleece taxpayers and enrich itself and/or to use the very threat of imposition of such fees if suit is filed under the Establishment Clause as a "club" to bludgeon public bodies into surrender to the ACLU's fanatical secular-cleansing demands.
The American Legion has been a leader in calling on Congress to reform the law to stop the abusive Establishment Clause litigation attacks of the ACLU and its exploitation of the civil rights acts for profit and intimidation.
The importance of the of the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case, and related Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial Case, now on appeal in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, cannot be overstated. The American Legion Department of California, and The American Legion, are participating in these cases as amicus curiae, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Legal Institute respectively, as is the Thomas More Law Center, which has led the fight to save the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial.
More information on the cases can be found at www.CALEGION.org, www.LEGION.org.
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Tune in, and call in to discuss yo ur point of view on the Victoria Taft Show -- news you can trust, unlike the NY Times -- tonight, 6:35 p.m., www.KPAM.com or AM 860.
Call-in No: 877-774-KPAM, or 503-335-0860.
--Rees
REES LLOYD, Attorney
(Life Member Riverside Post 79,
Past Commander District 21 (Cal),
Director, Defense of Veterans Memorials Project
of The American Legion Department of California
and the Alliance Defense Fund*)
951-867-1551
[*For identification only. The views expressed on this broadcast are solely those Rees Lloyd and not necessarily of any person or organization he may represent.]
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Letters@nytimes.com, Public@nytimes.com,
EGREGIOUS ERROR OF FACT IN EDITORIAL NEEDS CORRECTION FORTHWITH AND PROMINENTLY
"The New York Times is guilty of an egregious disservice and deception in its editorial “The Constitution and the Cross” (Oct. 7, 2007), pertaining to the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case (Buono vs. Salazar) which is pending before the Supreme Court, by perpetuating the hoax that: “In 1999, the National Park Service denied a request by an individual to place a Buddhist memorial in the area.”
The truth is stated in t he Court of Appeal decision itself. The Court wrote:
“The controversy surrounding the cross surfaced in 1999, when NPS [National Park Service]20received a letter from an individual who identified himself as ‘Sherpa San Harold Horpa’ of Jensen, Utah. The person who sent the letter under the alias ‘Sherpa San Harold Horpa’ is also known to [ACLU=2 0plaintiff Frank] Buono as Herman R. Hoops (‘Hoops’), a retired NPS employee and long-time acquaintance of Buono. Hoops requested permission from NPS to erect a ‘stupa’ (a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine) on a rock outcrop at a trail head located near the cross.”
Thus, this case, began with a hoax of discrimination against Buddhists in favor of Christians concocted by ACLU’s plaintiff Frank Buono, former Associate Superintendent of the Mojave Park Preserve, and his crony, NPS retiree Herman R. Hoops, a/k/a “Sherpa San Harold Horpa (sic).”
In short, there is absolutely no evidence of discriminatory trea tment adverse to purported “Buddhists” or anyone else in the record of this case, including the hoaxsters “Sherpa San Harold Horpa” and ACLU’s plaintiff Frank Buono – the former Ass’t Superintendent of the Mojave Preserve who had the power to object to the memorial and cross=2 0but did nothing until retiring, moving to Oregon, and then suing through the ACLU to destroy a cross honoring veterans a thousand miles away in the remote desert, e leven miles off the nearest highway, because he is “offended” by the20sight of a cross at a veterans memorial on public land.
The Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case will be a landmark deciding whether 300-million Americans in may have the right to choose how to honor their war dead and other veterans, or whether the ACLU and single persons “offended” by the sight of symbols of a religious significance at veterans memorials will have a veto power over such decisions.
This is an issue of great importance to veterans, and ought to be to all Americans. The views and opinions of Americans should not be misshaped by perpetuation by the NY Times of the utterly false, conc octed hoax of Plaintiff Frank Buono, “Sherpa San Harold Horpa,” and the ACLU, that there was an act of exclusionary discrimination against anyone at the Mojave Desert WWI Veterans Memorial.
&nb sp; Finally, as a former staff attorney three decades ago of the ACLU of Southern California which brought this misbegotten case, and which by such fanatical secular-cleansing litigation has become the Taliban of American liberal sec ularism contemporarily, I am appalled that the ACLU itself has not acted for these nine long years of litigation to repudiate the hoax which the NY Times now perpetuates as has CNN and other like-minded media.
The NY Times should correct its error, forthwith, or forfeit any claim to credibility.
Rees Lloyd, Attorney and Director of the Defense of Veterans Memorials Project of The American Legion Department of California and the Alliance Defense Fund (amicus curiae in the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case (Buono vs. Salazaer)."
95 1-867-1551
ReesLloyd@aol.com
