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As bad as this is…It is happening for real in every Public school in America every day.God has been taken away from all our children…School prayer is banned…The Bible is banned…The 10 Commandments are banned…all religion is banned..except Islam and Wicca or Earth worship…

The words of Jesus have been twisted by Obama himself and his new so-called Religious adviser..a live long Marxist. Teachers are fired for mentioning anything about God…or anything about Christ in a good light.Schools take girls for abortions without telling parents…give out birth control pills to 11 year olds without telling parents..teach free s@x..G@y s@x life..condom use etc…laugh about it. but abstinence is belittled…and Religious views about waiting until marriage are banned.

Even Obama has declared that America is no longer a Christian country…as Marxist dream for sure. Seeing these statues smashed just puts all this in perspective.

Also all the other things that puts all this in perspective like the skyrocketing rates of youth Murders…abortions…Gangs…drug use…broken families…divorse…child abuse..drop outs..assaults…suicide…Satan worship…rape…thieft….disrespect…Church burnings…AIDS and other STDs…a 78% illegitimacy rate in the bl@ck communities…38% in the White Communities…

And the Progressives and Liberals keep pushing for even more Godless lifestyles?NEA and Teacher’s Unions keep supporting Radical Leftist Pols who keep banning God in Schools…and then they all keep asking “Why are all our kids killing each other?”

We need to vote all these Dems out Folks..We need to get back to the Princples of the Founding Fathers…who say that all our Rights came from God…not the Govt. WE need to go back to a time when America was a God loving Country…when we believed in Faith…Hope and Charity…when Crime was at an all time low.

State powers of eminent domain are not constitutionally valid to acquire federally-owned lands. They are also not valid to acquire lands within federally-recognized Indian reservations. When states or municipalities need the use of or access to federal lands for state or municipal projects, they have to negotiate an agreement with the federal government to acquire such use or access. Such an agreement is generally discretionary on the part of the federal government, unless required by federal statute.

Assuming that Section 6 of the federal Utah Enabling Act of 1894 has been accurately posted above and remains in force, its language indicates that, while the federal government allocates certain parcels of federal lands for potential use in supporting public schools in Utah, the selection and acquisition of such properties by the state shall be subject to the approval of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, and not something which the state can do unilaterally. It also indicates that, despite such general allocation, no specific parcel dedicated for use as a military, Indian, or other federal reservation can be acquired by the state unless and until the federal government has first terminated such federal dedication.

Since the Utah Enabling Act went into effect 116 years ago, it also appears worth inquiring whether the state has ever previously requested, and the federal government has ever previously consented to, state acquisitions or dispositions of such properties for support of education in that state; and, if so, what quantity of lands originally contemplated by that provision remain in federal hands today. It would seem unlikely that the provisions of such basic enabling legislation have gone completely unnoticed for more than a century.

Some of the emotional comments on this issue, from varying perspectives, appear to miss the mark. In all likelihood, this issue has little to do either with federal neglect of the residents of western states, or with the residents of western states seeking subsidization from taxpayers in eastern states. Utah's legislature has probably passed this legislation because, like every other state in the nation, Utah's government is under tremendous fiscal pressure due to the steep decline in tax revenues resulting from the current severe economic recession. Education is one of the public services which states and municipalities provide to their citizens, so state aid to municipalities to support the costs of public education is a major component of the budgets of most states. With the private sector economy facing serious challenges, most states are confronted with substantial budget deficits, and are looking for ways to cover revenue shortfalls that do not involve either major tax increases or massive cuts in public services.

Utah is apparently trying to find a way to close a state budget gap and continue funding its public schools that involves acquiring and then selling real property in order to raise revenue, rather than increasing state or local taxes or laying off thousands of teachers. That is an entirely understandable goal. It's just that, in this case, the lands involved are owned by the federal government, the state can't take them without federal permission, and there is a federal statute requiring both the consent of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior for such acquisitions and the prior federal extinguishment of any federal dedication of such lands to military, Indian or other uses before the state acquisition can occur.

Given this background, what the State of Utah ought to be doing is seeking the consent of the U.S. Department of the Interior for the acquisition and disposition of selected federal lands under the statute; and, if such consent is not forthcoming, seeking support from the President and/or Congress to persuade the Department of the Interior to reconsider its position. Perhaps such efforts are under way on an administrative basis. In the absence of such actions, though, trying to exercise a state power of eminent domain over federal lands would simply be empty political grandstanding.

Whether conservative or liberal, western or eastern, readers of this blog ought to have sufficient intelligence to consider the issues involved before resorting to lobbing partisan brickbats at each other. Because the private sector is hard pressed by the recession, state governments and local school districts are hard pressed too. They are trying to find ways to solve their problems. Some of the solutions turn out to be more complex than may initially be apparent. That doesn't mean that the people involved are fools or villains -- it just means that times are tough and things are complicated.