Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Ten Commandments Stunner: Feds Lying to Tourists at Supreme Court

Door Panel at the Supreme Court
prominently displaying the Ten "Amendments"

Government tells modern visitors it's Bill of Rights being honored:
Every argument before the U.S. Supreme Court and every opinion the justices deliver comes in the presence of the Ten Commandments, God's law given to Moses on a fire-scorched mountain, and now represented for the United States in the very artwork carved into the high court structure.

In today's world of revisionist history, the proof comes through the work of a California pastor who visited the Supreme Court building recently when he was in Washington and was surprised that what the tour guides were telling him wasn't the same thing as what he was seeing.

Todd DuBord, pastor of the Lake Almanor Community Church in California, said he was traveling with his wife, Tracy, and was more than startled during recent visits to the courthouse and two other historic locations to discover the stories of the nation's heritage had been sterilized of Christian references.

His entire research compilation is available online.

"Having done some research (before the trip), I absolutely was not expecting to hear those remarks," which, he told WND, simply "denied history."

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He was most disturbed by what appears to be revisionism in the presentations given to visitors at the Supreme Court. There, he said, his tour guide was describing the marble frieze directly above the justices' bench.

"Between the images of the people depicting the Majesty of the Law and Power of Government, there is a tablet with ten Roman numerals, the first five down the left side and the last five down the right. This tablet represents the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights," she said.

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... he found a 1975 official U.S. Supreme Court Handbook, prepared under the direction of Mark Cannon, administrative assistant to the chief justice. It said, "Directly above the Bench are two central figures, depicting Majesty of the Law and Power of Government. Between them is a tableau of the Ten Commandments…"

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DuBord said he knew of other representations, such as the lower part of the inside of each of the oak doors where people enter the inner Court Chamber, where two tablets carry Roman numerals I-V and VI-X.

But DuBord's tour guide said those – too – were the Ten Amendments.

He then asked, "If there are no other depictions of Moses or the Ten Commandments on the building except on the South Wall Frieze in the U.S. Supreme Court, then what about on the east side of the building where Moses is the central figure among others, holding both tablets of the Ten Commandments, one in each arm?"

"Her response shocked me as much as the guide inside the Court chamber. 'There is no depiction of Moses and the Ten Commandments like that on the U.S. Supreme Court,'" DuBord said he was told.


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My Comments:
The co-worker who sent me the link to this story had this to say:

"This reminded me of the main cathedral in Prague, when I saw it back in '82. The commies had removed the primary religious figures from the front over the main door, and replaced them w/figures of Marx, Lenin, Engels, and Trotsky..."

2 Comments:

At 11/15/2006 9:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder if this isn't simply gross ignorance on the part of the tour guide. The Supreme Court was forthright in its Ten Commandments decision that there were representations of the Ten Commandments at the Supreme Court. I hope this is brought to the attention of Justice Roberts. I believe as Chief Justice has responsibility for administering the Supreme Court physical plant.

 
At 11/15/2006 10:58 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It doesn't reflect well on the state of education in this country that so many people wouldn't recognize the symbol.

 

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