"The Handcuffs Will Come"

In Oconee County, SC, the county council has a long-standing tradition of beginning official meetings with a prayer--until the ACLU sent a letter telling them that "Your sectarian invocations are blatant violations of federal law [They aren't. -RT] . . .As you know, the town of Great Falls was required to pay well over $50,000 in legal fees that were incurred because of their stubbornness in persisting to use similar invocations." What they DIDN'T tell them is that the ACLU lost. But that's their plan. To use the THREAT of "high legal fees" to intimidate their targets. At a meeting to discuss the issue, one of the ACLU's South Carolina board members delivered a specific threat: "[P]rayers should not be allowed. Especially prayers to Jesus [What about prayers to Allah? -RT] . . . [I]f they continue to break the [imaginary -RT] law, I want to say, the handcuffs are going to come." On what legal basis he thought he could threaten this county council with handcuffs, I don't know. But it worked. The county council "folded" and abolished their long-standing tradition. Not on something REAL, but on the illusory THREAT. The ACLU is out of control and needs to be stopped. (Just common sense)