You may agree with it, but to say it is what 'actually happened' is inaccurate.
I wish I was in the meeting where they decided to tear them down. I imagine that the actual conversation went along the lines of, "we are not going to start this s^&t. Pull 'em down."
The only part of this that I wish happened is that when the spokesman was told that the Rabbi never "intended" for them to pull the whole thing down, he responded with, "Perhaps he should have thought about that before he sued us."
Finally, I am so tired of the arguments from the left about court rulings that define what is secular or not secular. The commentators last night were telling the spokesman that "the trees and menorah are considered secular items, why not just explain that to anyone else that complains." Have these commentators EVER worked with the public? if they put a menorah up, they would have been dealing with the Christians, the Shintos, the Druids....and the public doesnt care about the mumbo jumbo court rulings.