Justice Weeps

Reference: Weinbaum/Boyd v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico (No. 06-2355). "Appellants' petition for rehearing is denied. The petition for rehearing en banc was transmitted to all of the judges of the court who are in regular active service. As no members of the panel [Carlos F. Lucero, David E. Ebel, and Jerome A. Holmes] and no judge in regular active service on the court requested that the court be polled, that petition is also denied."

On 23 October 2008 the legitimate en banc request for justice went unheeded by the full twenty-one judge body of federal judges at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Of course those three judges referenced above are not about to recant their faith-based decision, however illogical and numbing to any sense of fair play and justice. While American soldiers representing all faiths and none are being dismembered and dying daily in Iraq and Afghanistan and dozens of other unnamed locales around the globe, these judges safely turned "their backs on the land" of the people who do not deserve these judges' selfish and inconsiderate lack of attention to our laws. To what low depths has the faith-based myrmidons affected our courts? Is it so much so that not one judge on this court of appeals dared to speak against the lies addressed to the court that twisted the truth that protects the minorities from the majority in this country?
Those en banc judges will have to live with their shame. They know what they have done!

Fallout From Court Ruling

With the blessings of judges who are on the spiritual payroll of the City of Las Cruces, the City continues to lean in the harness as it presses on to the 20th Century with its burden of religious prejudice slowing its progress away from moral bankruptcy.

The monument to evangelical pride, the Las Cruces City Hall, has a cute little plaque, across the lobby from the picture of God from the Sistine Chapel, stating "Here they saw a cross for which Las Cruces was named." The City's defense attorney presenting the City's claim to the use of crosses, standing before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, claimed "they saw a cross," referring to the alleged miracle the first Spanish explorers saw. There are no documents.

The official United States Army website for White Sands Missile Range outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico, carries a story the Army refuses to remove, provided by evangelicals in the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce. Under the history of Dona Ana County, Section 5, it says: "There are many stories [all fictional] of the origin of the name 'Las Cruces.' One generally presumed true tells of the first European who came north over the route later named Camino Real. The European found three graves marked with crosses. There was no clue as to who was buried or who had marked them with Christian crosses in a land inhabited only by heathens. The uncanny find raised other questions-From where did the Christians come? Did one survive to bury the dead? Where did the survivor go?"

Note: The local "Euro-Americans" who wrote this fakelore use "European" instead of the actual 'Spaniard' to discredit the origin of the first explorers.

While the dear reader may be shaking their head at this 'crosses on the trail,' another wonderment is appearing. The fallout from the Court's ruling that the three Latin crosses used by the City of Las Cruces are not religious and the three Latin crosses on the Las Cruces Public Schools stadium "don't look like Calvary.", the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department is changing the shoulder patches on the deputies to show three Latin crosses at the base of the local mountain range.

Justice Update

The Plaintiffs have filed an en banc request to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. An en banc requests asks the 21 federal judges at the 10th Circuit Court to review the 3-judge panel ruling. The ruling was obviously 'faith' based and ignored their own previous rulings of the 10th Circuit Court about government proselytizing through the use of religious symbols.

Federal judges are appointed for life, paid reasonably well, and have no fear of losing their jobs. With this being the case one might think that the justice the judges swore to uphold would be the paramount thought in ruling decisions. Not their personal religious beliefs that might include the worshiping of an icon and ignoring the equity it previously represented.

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