A Book of Enlightenment

A new 2009 book from Sense Publishing is out for any citizen desiring Enlightenment. The book's subject is taboo in some church and civic circles and is long overdue as it exposes what is whispered in 'polite' Christian society. The title of the book is: Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States and is edited by Warren J. Blumenfeld, Khyati Y. Joshi, and Ellen E. Fairchild. The knowledge of just how deep the faith-based legal system of New Mexico, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States, stoops to force Christianity on the unsuspecting people will scare the 'bejesus' out of you. Christians who 'testify' with the old wink-'n-nod in public of their religious beliefs, and thereby, knowingly extract privileges are not happy with this exposure. It's like federal Judge Robert Brack justifying his illegal behavior and rulings in his court and chambers by testifying, "I am a Christian.", to explain away his actions that benefit him.

One can only wonder why.

As you meander around the city on nice sunny days you probably don't think about how corrupt the operation of the city and county governments are. One might say 'morally corrupt' when authority of office is violated for private gain. Illinois doesn't have anything on Las Cruces and Dona Ana County. The moral corruption here extends from the very top to the very bottom.

Some citizens who keep up with the shenanigans probably wonder why federal District Court Judge Robert Brack and his minion, federal Magistrate Judge Lourdes Martinez, have not resigned from their appointed (not anointed) positions. Their joint activities in the two federal civil rights cases have case an ugly shadow on the courts - a morally corrupt shadow.

The former mayor Mattiace in all his prejudice thought Judge Brack's ruling against the First Amendment was a great Christmas present for the city. Well, Mattiace is gone, and a really great present for any season would be for the above judges to vacate their positions and let someone who believes in the law and citizens rights fumigate the courthouse.

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!

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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