Posted on 03/03/2009 12:12:32 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was planning to hang up.
The lady wasn’t sued or prosecuted. The Federal Fair Housing Act calls for mainly civil recourse, not criminal. So in that sens, the police can’t make her take down a sign, though she opens herself up to liability.
Private persons seem to be subject to FFHA according to the text of the law.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/housing/title8.php
The joke over the water fountain was in very poor taste. The “I rent to whites only” sign was actually probably a violation of the fair housing act.
You are talking about the horse's asses who pass those asinine laws, aren't you???
>> You are talking about the horse’s asses who pass those asinine laws, aren’t you???
Though I disagree with most forcible “anti-racism” laws, I was not referring to those individuals. Blatant racism is simply obnoxious — I’ll lose no sleep over the plight of some insufferable racist.
SnakeDoc
You're getting in over your head, Doc.
The Declartion of Independence HAS NO FORCE IN LAW WHATSOEVER!!! It was merely a declaration of greivences against the Crown and what the colonists intended to do about it, at that time.
>> You’re getting in over your head, Doc.
Wouldn’t be the first time.
>> The Declartion of Independence HAS NO FORCE IN LAW WHATSOEVER!!!
I am aware. Thanks.
>> It was merely a declaration of greivences against the Crown and what the colonists intended to do about it, at that time.
A “declaration of greivances” that could’ve been just as applicable to us. If the acts of King George were illegal usurpations of power, so were the acts of the United States with regard to slavery.
SnakeDoc
Wrong!!
>> Wrong!!
A well-reasoned and eloquent response. Why didn’t I think of that?
SnakeDoc
So she committed a thought crime. And you approve of legal action being taken against her thoughts?????
>> So she committed a thought crime. And you approve of legal action being taken against her thoughts?????
Intent (a thought) is an element of most crimes. Murder requires intent. Rape requires intent. Violation of the Fair Housing Act requires intent.
I am in favor of legal action against her for her actions. Intent is merely one element of those actions.
SnakeDoc
What do you want, a 2,00 word essay on why most of your asnswers so far have been what one usually shovels out of the stable? And, I might add, sarcasm is the usual refuge of idiots and children.
This is her residence and she lives there and can discriminate, unless she is using a Realtor.
As long as she is the one advertising, FFHA can't do squat.
If this were a multi family house that she was not inhabiting herself, she could not discriminate
I am a Realtor by the way.
>> What do you want, a 2,00 word essay on why most of your asnswers so far have been what one usually shovels out of the stable?
Honestly — couldn’t care less.
>> And, I might add, sarcasm is the usual refuge of idiots and children.
Only “usual”.
SnakeDoc
Thanks.
Well at least you're honest enough to admit that you answers in this thred are a bunch of horse sh-t.
>> Well at least you’re honest enough to admit that you answers in this thred are a bunch of horse sh-t.
Nonsense.
SnakeDoc
You're right. Your answers are certainly that, too.
>> You’re right.
First sensible thing you’ve said in this discussion.
SnakeDoc
I haven’t looked at the Fair Housing Act lately, but it used to be that where you are renting out rooms in your own home, where you are living, you are free to discriminate on any basis you wish to.
I don’t think the FHA applies to someone renting out bedrooms in the home where they are residing.
Its called the “Mrs. Murphy’s exemption.” “This exemption states that if the dwelling has four or less units and the owner lives in one of the units, it is exempt from the Fair Housing Act.”
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