Yes, there is another Liberty Street structure up. The Mayor made a statement tonight at our Town Hall meeting regarding the wall that included the following:
– The City issued a “stop work” order on Sunday.
– The City issued a “notice of violation” which is seperate from the above.
– The City has asked the Circuit Court for an injunction requiring removal of the sign. Don’t know just yet when that will be heard.
This is now a matter for the lawyers. I’ll not comment further but I will put updates on here as I get them.
February 3, 2009 at 7:50 am
Hmm. I guess I can’t blame him, he sees how the illegals are treated and fought over by our elected officials. See what happens when the hammer is not used from the start.
February 3, 2009 at 8:00 am
It amazes me that these folks feel it is okay to ignore the laws and the legal authority.
I’m all for freedom of speech and expression, but WITHIN the constructs of the law. And what saddens me is the supporters of the actions of these folks will immediately cry “racism” at any who differ from their world view.
February 3, 2009 at 10:12 am
David,
Once they saw their illegal entry was being ignored, it is easy to see why they think working, driving, voting etc is not that big of a deal. Now, it extends to the “sign”. All because we have elected officials and agency heads who do not want to do their jobs.
February 3, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I have been on several jobs and have had stop work orders,[ mainly not having permits] and the very clear impressions I got were that I could be arrested if I did not stop right then. Why is this man being treated different? Thank you
February 3, 2009 at 9:00 pm
He’s not being treated differently. Period. But he is acting differently. You, by contrast, have respect for the law.
February 3, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Just a little ramble here, with everyone’s permission. Apology offered in advance.
We correctly want the government off of our backs. We’re Americans. We cherish our personal liberties. For these reasons we build a fair dose of “process” into our laws so that the government can’t easily trample us.
Sometimes we feel there’s too little process, like when we feel the government gettings its big hands all over us (such as when the IRS makes a mistake to our detriment and we can’t figure out how to get a fair hearing… or even a live person on the phone). And, conversely, sometimes we feel there’s too much process like when we want the government to quickly “get” the bad guys, but the process is too drawn out. I presume that is what some of us are feeling today: Too much process when we would prefer less. Some might prefer even none.
One of the many things that makes our country great is that we have multiple opportunities to enact well-balanced laws. True, we often don’t get those laws right the first time, and maybe not even the second time. Democracy then lets us have yet another try. Messy? Yes. Inefficient? Yes. That’s democracy, and that’s what we fight wars to protect.
Democracy is often tested from without, like when we were at war with Germany and Japan, at the time countries that would have done away with our democratic form of government and our laws. Similarly, democracy is often tested from within, like when we desire our own government to strike a blow against a wrongdoer with greater dispatch than existing legal process provides for.
It is this latter test which is the more difficult, because our desire for efficiency then pits us against our own democratic institutions, that is, the laws we enacted through our own democratic process. It is always a most important test for us to pass. When we pass, democracy wins.
But like I said, it’s always messy, and almost noone is ever completely satisfied by the outcome.
Good night, and sleep tight in America.
February 10, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Mr. Fernandez has a right to express his opinions and to petition the government for redress of grievances as he sees them.
He does not have the right to violate building codes, billboard restrictions, or court orders in order to voice his opinions.
Jonathan Way