RESPONSE TO SUN-NEWS "NEW FLAGS TO HONOR MILITARY" STORY

Response to “New Flags to Honor Military.”  Sun-News 9-24-13, pages 1 & 8.

There is no mention as to who approved this project while other more important City projects go needy.  This project appears to be nothing but a distraction from more pressing secular expenditures that would benefit all residents.  The city already has a Veterans’ Park on Roadrunner Parkway to honor Christian veterans.

          City Manager Robert Garza is quoted as saying, (The flags are) “a symbol of the city’s continuous support of our service men and women as well as all veterans who have served.”  That’s a nice sentiment, but so politically self-serving.

          Garza has missed the point.  As long as these representative flags are flown under the neo-pagan sun symbol and Trinitarian crosses mounted on the front of City Hall they do not honor “all” of America’s service personnel - past and present – just Christians.  Are active-duty non-Christian service personnel and veterans ‘honored’ by having a Christian Church-flag waved in their faces in front of the seat of government – City Hall?

          To add the ‘insult to the injury,’ the plan to fly those service flags side-by-side with the City’s exclusionary hegemonic, Crusades-like white Christian, neo-pagan flag, signifies that only Christians served and died in the service of the United States.  Then the city’s pride in self-proclaimed religious bigotry and ignorance will be so honored.  The insult and dismissal of non-Christian service personnel, citizens and visitors will be perfectly clear.

          Are the neo-pagan icons on the building not enough to continue to claim and reclaim Las Cruces as a “Christian city” and promote the fakelore ‘history’ of Las Cruces?  This project is a lot of money and time spent to get the neo-pagan flag out front of City Hall on the public’s property and declare it a Christian site.  That’s the intent, right?

Paul F. Weinbaum, Captain, Infantry, Retired

NEW FLAG FOR THE LAND OF EVANGELISM

NEW FLAG FOR THE LAND OF EVANGELISM

While many New Mexicans are glued to their television sets for entertainment and world news, many others are more concerned with the lack of education, lack of health care, and feeding their children and themselves.  These distractions are allowing a fanatical undercover operation not unlike the  'black ops' of the military to infiltrate our public schools and the 'public square' with their insidious evangelical, hegemonic actions to declare their superiority and to proselytize the public, especially the children.  They know plastering Latin crosses on public property and in the public schools is against the law, but with ill-regard to the constitutional rights of the public they are pressed to conjure up ways to 'claim' New Mexico as their own.  Not satisfied with the indifference of most New Mexicans toward the current Christianized state flag approved in 1925, their latest effort is their new adaptation of the New Mexico state flag to support their righteous claims. All the while, illegally using public monies. (Author's printer is responsible for color variations.  The first flag is the proper color.).

This is the current Christianized Zia symbol of the New Mexico state flag approved in 1925:

                                       
                                    Here is the new unauthorized evangelistic version:

Next is the evangelical version on the State Legislators' desks. Apparently to remind and warn certain members their loyalty to their oath, our state and federal constitutions is not theirs to obey. The local 'celestial governor' will lead them.  State seal in background:

(Courtesy Photo, page 12, Las Cruces Bulletin's 2013 Southwest New Mexico Legislative Guide.)

Pre-evangelistic Public Education Department state flag in public schools:

(Author's photo)

New evangelical flag hanging in public schools classrooms.

State law requires U.S. and New Mexico flags be displayed in every public school class room.  Elementary school children among other grades look at this flag and recite the New Mexico pledge.  (Author's photo.)

Evangelical Zia symbol on public high school logo:

Note the clever off-center hawk's feathers cover the fourth ray at top of symbol to emphasize the evangelical Christian trinitarian homage to events at Calvary.  Also note the center ray is taller and the slightly shorter left ray represents the 'good' thief and the obvious shorter ray on the right view represents the 'bad' thief.  The same format as the Christian crosses on the Las Cruces Public School's "field of dreams" football stadium. Also the two top rays are intentionally wider to emphasize the Christian deity homage.  All Hawk signage, jerseys, shirts, center basketball court, and documents have this evangelical logo. The large, painted, incised three-arm Zia symbol in the school's concrete courtyard has not been modified except for the missing fourth arm (Author's photo).

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