Purpose.
The first duty of government is to ensure domestic tranquility and defend the life, property, and rights of its citizens. Over the last 5 weeks, there has been a sustained assault on the life and property of civilians, law enforcement officers, government property, and revered American monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial. Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies such as Marxism
that call for the destruction of the United States system of government. Anarchists and left-wing extremists have sought to advance a fringe ideology that paints the United States of America as fundamentally unjust and have
i think more likely they take the cross case, that s an issue that comes up very often, the doctrine, that is completely incoherent. shannon: let s start with the cross case. this is the large cross world war i memorial, i believe went up in 1925. at some point the state park commission got involved in 1961. now there s government money going to a bit of maintaining this. the fourth circuit ruling said one simply can t ignore the fact for thousands of years the latin cross has represented christianity in the memorial cross. it serves as generic symbol of death, but rather crystal symbol of the death of jesus christ. they said the government can t be tangled up with that. the fourth circuit like a lot of courts is defense hefly split. the law in this area is a bit of a jumble. you see courts wrestling with these cases, public monuments, crosses that, sort of thing. what they have to look at is whether there s a historic purpose behind it, whether the