Hardly. Nguyen is a whiner. I was undecided until he used the word "oppression" to describe his plight. Oppression is being beaten for worshiping Christ. Having to endure a plastic Santa or two next door, and some visitors in your neighborhood for a few weeks is not oppression .
I'm sure if he had it to do over again, he would have bit his lip and endured. Now he’s famous for being a grouch. He gets to share history with the hag that shut down a little girl's lemonade stand via complaint to authorities.
I wonder if the Aerts vote democrat?
It’s far more likely that Mr. Nguyen does.
I was a little surprised by that. I expected at least one post from the crowd that says, "It's his property, he can store nuclear waste on it in the middle of a residential neighborhood if he wants."
Like endangering others lives and generating a little noise, light and merriment are comparable.
What he was objecting to was the constant traffic and noise in a residential area. They even needed to bring in a person to direct traffic. I'm not sure any of us would have wanted our street turned into this kind of circus for a month.
I love Christmas and all the attendant decorations and celebrations that go with it; however, I think that consumerism has gotten out of control----excess and vulgarity is not what Christmas is about. But, hey, that's my own interpretation and Mr. Aerts is free to interpret the season in his own, unique fashion. Still, if I had a neighbor who partied hearty till 2 a.m. every night, so that my own, normal life was interrupted, I would obviously ask him to tone it down. I think Mr. Aerts should have tried to see the point of view of the neighbors (I'll bet the Nguyens weren't the only ones who minded his display). Instead of literally pointing the finger at them, he might have simply tried to work it out like a good neighbor. Now, he just seems petty and mean-spirited----not the Christmas spirit he was originally attempting to convey.
Spoken like a statist who favors government regulation of private property rights. You just draw the line at a slightly different place than me.
It isn't exactly a Christ-centered display.