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A Statue of Tyranny in New York Harbor?How about memorials to Adolf Hitler, King George the 3rd, and other figures antithetical to the freedoms and rights provided citizens in the United States?Any of those could be legally allowed on public property under a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver."It's very scary," Frank Manion, of the American Center for Law & Justice, told WND. "The Minutemen in Massachusetts? We need a Redcoat. A George Washington statue? Why not George the 3rd. A Holocaust memorial? How about a Hitler memorial?"He told WND his organization, and the Thomas More Law Center, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review-and reverse-the conclusion.The ruling came in a pair of decisions out of the state of Utah, where Duchesne and Pleasant Grove both had appealed district court decisions that required the display of monuments such as the "Seven Aphorisms" promoted by an organization called Summum.Manion told WND the district court rulings, and the affirming 10th Court opinion, essentially concluded that if a public entity allows the display of any monument funded by the private sector, such as Ten Commandments monuments paid for by various organizations such as the Eagles, other groups must also be allowed to display any monuments they would choose."In 1886, the United States government accepted from the people of France a donation of a 151-foot tall colossal statue called "Liberty Enlightening the World,'" the law firms argued. "Since that time, the government has displayed this Statue of Liberty in a traditional public forum in New York Harbor."For years, demonstrators with messages to deliver have assembled, handed out literature and otherwise expressed themselves at the site subject to certain regulations of the time, place and manner of their expression. But it probably never occurred to any such demonstrators that they enjoyed a constitutional right to insist that the government allow them to erect their own 151-foot tall statue or monument setting forth an alternative message to that conveyed by Lady Liberty," the law firms warn.To read more go to:
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