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February 18th, 2016 
Awake Goy
February 17, 2016
(Sanders was Mayor of Burlington VT. from 1981-89.)
Mayor Sanders Championed Symbol of Satanic Possession
Bernie Sanders claims to be a “non religious” Jew,
but Communists are Cabalists (Satanists.) In the 1980’s,
he fought to keep a Chabad (Cabalist) menorah
in front of City Hall. The ensuing controversy received nationwide attention
and pioneered the practice nationally. Essentially, the sign
of Satan has replaced the sign of God.
“Sanders recited the blessings and lit the Menorah’s candles at Burlington’s first-ever public Chanukah Menorah lighting.
Defying significant pressure from political peers, Sanders strongly supported the Chabad-Lubavitch Public Menorah and directed his administration to defend it in court. [He] played a significant role in the now widespread phenomenon of public Chanukah Menorah celebrations countrywide.”
Note: Chabad may be behind the NWO. See links below article.
(abridged by henrymakow.com)
With its small Jewish population,
Vermont is historically not used to much public Jewish expression. In
December of 1982, the Burlington Free Press ran an opinion
piece titled: Attempting to Celebrate Hanukkah Always Seems Difficult
in Vermont.
(left, Chabad members with President Bush)
In the winter of 1983, Rabbi Yitzchak
and Zeesy Raskin were appointed as the new Chabad-Lubavitch
emissaries to Vermont… One of the first actions the
newly-minted emissaries took… was to approach Mayor Sanders’
office and request permission to light a large 8-foot menorah on the
steps of City Hall as part of the worldwide public mitzvah campaign
spearheaded and inspired by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson, of righteous memory.
Rabbi Raskin then invited Mayor Sanders
to light the menorah.
Sanders gladly accepted their
invitation and on December 1, 1983, in front of a crowd of about 35
Jewish students from the University of Vermont, he came out to the
steps of City Hall, donned a kippah, flawlessly read the blessings
aloud, and lit two candles, corresponding to the second night of
Chanukah.
Sanders’ inauguration of the City
Hall menorah inspired an annual tradition, and in 1986 Rabbi Raskin
sought permission to allow the menorah to be erected in City Hall
Park during all eight days of Chanukah. He also asked for permission
to replace his aging 8-footer with a new sixteen foot version.
LITIGATION AND PRESSURE
The Sanders administration welcomed
these requests, and granted full permission.
Almost immediately the ACLU complained
to the city, claiming that a menorah in a public space violated
federal laws of the separation of church and state.
Sanders asked City Attorney Joseph
McNeil to review the issue.
On Dec. 5, 1986, McNeil responded to
Sanders, attaching a legal opinion written by attorney Art Cernosia
stating the city’s position that Chabad was fully in its rights to
erect a menorah:
“… Based on the Second Circuit
case, it is my opinion that there is no legal bar for the City of
Burlington to allow a menorot [sic] to be erected in the City’s
park. I would recommend that the City require a prominent disclaimer
sign to be posted by the display.”
The now-taller menorah stood in City
Hall Park for the duration of Chanukah.
In 1987 the ACLU and local activists
threatened to file suit against the City of Burlington if they again
allowed the menorah to be erected on city property. The controversy
quickly went from being a Vermont case covered by local papers to a
widely-reported national news story. One New York Times story quotes
extensively from a news conference… which reiterated the
Sanders administration’s opinion that “City Hall Park is a
public-forum location where the expression of political and religious
viewpoints is not only tolerated but encouraged.”
The Times .. [referred to] “some unfortunate calls suggesting that, because
the Governor [Madeleine Kunin] and the Mayor [Sanders] are both
Jewish, we might be more inclined to allow a menorah than a creche. It is not because the Governor and
the Mayor are Jewish that the menorah is in the park,” [city lawyer] Mr. McNeil
said.
Governor Madeleine Kunin actually
disagreed with Mayor Sanders about the menorah’s permissibility but
despite her disagreement, and the vociferous opposition of many of
Sanders’ friends and political supporters, the mayor and his
administration were steadfast in their determination to allow the
religious expression in the public sphere.
SANDERS FOUGHT THER ACLU
It is difficult to overstate how
closely allied the ACLU and Bernie Sanders were on the vast majority
of social issues. Yet when activists–with the assistance of the
ACLU–finally did file suit against the city in June of 1988,
Sanders and his administration chose to vigorously defend their
position in court.
Reliable supporters of Bernie Sanders
lined up to express their dissatisfaction. Rev. Paul Bortz exhorted
Sanders to drop the case and “get out of this.” Wrote Bortz:
“Come on Mayor Sanders, let’s drop
the idea of any religious symbol being displayed on any government
property. The whole idea is an extraordinary waste waste [sic] of
taxpayers money. Or are you billing Lubavitch of Vermont for legal
fees?
“Let’s get on with other, more
vital, issues such as the legal rights of the homeless, and poor and
housing and discrimination, areas where the Sanders administration
has a good record.”
(In front of Polish Parliament)
On Dec. 8, 1988, just before Chanukah,
U.S. District Judge Franklin S. Billings Jr. issued a particularly
strong ruling in support of the Burlington menorah, a story closely
reported by The Times (and distributed around the country by its
now-defunct wire service), and many other national outlets.
The ruling was overturned a year later
by the Second Court of Appeals, which claimed, in part, that since
the menorah stood in the park alone (i.e., without any symbols of
other religions, as was the case in Allegheny County v. ACLU, in
which the Supreme Court ruled the public display of a menorah was
constitutional), it was therefore in violation of the Establishment
Clause.
(Berlin)
In subsequent years, Chabad’s Raskin
placed the menorah in Waterfront Park (also government property, but
not directly in front of City Hall, which mollified the Appeals
Court’s reasoning that a menorah with City Hall in the background
was a de facto endorsement of a particular religion by the
municipality). Today, the menorah goes up in the heart of Burlington
on a central patch on the campus of the University of Vermont.
But the ongoing publicity of the case
served a positive role in Chabad’s efforts to publicize the
Chanukah message and bring more public awareness of the holiday and
its message of religious freedom.
—
Thanks Marcos for this Tip!
Related-
Bernie Sanders is a Communist & Freemason
Is Chabad a Racist Jewish Terrorist Jewish Cult?
Source Article from http://henrymakow.com/2016/02/bernie-and-the-menorah.html
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