That sign is ugly. . .as well as an act of linguistic jihad on my precious language. Really - if you’re going to have a sign try to have solid grammar. . .and lose the differentiating font colors. . .it’s like a middle school product of a slow child.

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How fast would it take the city to remove a sign the size of the Liberty Street sign of an aborted baby?

Without a Permanent Injunction the city has to go back to square
one each time around and restart the process and that, I’m told,
was done on Friday.

I don’t think he is within the sign ordinance. The size limit is 32 sq ft in aggregate size. The new sign appears to be too large but there is also some sign complaining about the police and when taken together, the signs are too big.

IOW, you could have 32 1′x1′ signs or whatever combination of sizes as long as they don’t exceed 32 sq. ft.

Now, this is a zoning violation and is dealt with no differently than peeling paint, vehicles parked on laws, etc. I have no idea what, if any, bearing our previous dealings with the owner of the lot have on this current episode.

I’ll update either here or on my blog as I know anything else.

How about Help Save Manassas of other enteties getting a LARGE group of people together and make a march on the Manassas City Council to show the people’s displeasure with the council and it’s handling of the Fernandez situation for the past 3 years. The illegals make no bones about marching in the city.

I find the sign offensive, as was the last sign, but alas….political speech is protected and he appears to be within the City’s sign ordinance. I served 23 years, and still serving now 35 years later, upholding & defending the Constitution even when I don’t like some idiot.

Legal2 said “offensive to many people” and that raises the other issue about free/political/hate - until a majority steps forward and either addresses the City Council at available Citizens’ Time, or does a calling/writing campaign, the Council cannot take action. That is the caveat - the majority has to sound off.

Unfortunately in my fair City, the majority goe about their lives, complain among self and neighbors, and just blow off City Hall saying it is just a bunch of political folks who take no action. Blogs don’t count as a majority unfortunately….and I am not sure even the City has determined what a majority would be when this yahoo’s “free speech” steps over the line to causing social unrest. Manassas Citizens have to step up to the plate, and the most vocal of us are the minority.

Immigrant Argument!
There’s the “everyone’s an immigrant except for the ‘Native Americans’” argument. Well, the American Indians didn’t sprout from the land, they came across the Bering land bridge from Asia. So if the criterion is “You’re an immigrant if you had an ancestor who immigrated here,” then American Indians are immigrants, too.

In that case, “immigrant” is no longer a useful word, since Everyone’s an immigrant.

I gather that the sign would not be considered acceptable if it had commercial speech on it?

Thanks for that code section! That sign is political speech and is not regulated by the ARB. The problem, in the eyes of the law, is that it is too large, not how it looks.

To put this question in different terms, would you imagine having to get approval from the ARB to put up a Miller or McDonnell sign if you lived in OTM? obviously not.

I don’t like the sign or what it has to say either….

“Customs and Border Protection officers noted an outstanding warrant for arrest for Hassan Salieu Turay who arrived to Bush airport, October 26. Turay is wanted in Manassas, Va. for sexual assault involving a child. Turay was turned over the Houston Police Department for extradition. ”

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10302009_3.xml