RSSFlorida city ’spitting in veterans’ faces’
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | February 27, 2009
CLEARWATER, Fla. – The fish tale in this Gulf Coast city is beginning to broil, and perhaps could be titled, “The Old Man and the Seethe.”
Government officials are now accused of figuratively spitting in the face of U.S. veterans who defend the Constitution in connection with a man they’ve threatened to fine $500 per day for posting the First Amendment on his business atop a mural of marine life – artwork the city claims is illegal.
WND brought the plight of Herb Quintero to national attention yesterday, as the owner of a bait and tackle store has filed a federal lawsuit against Clearwater to stop officials from fining him for the sea life designs and banner quoting the Bill of Rights.
The story struck an immediate chord with Americans fed up with what they perceive to be government overstepping its authority, and comments of outrage from across the nation and world are flooding in.
After reading the WND report, a U.S. officer assigned to the Multi-National Force in Iraq wrote a bitter e-mail to Jeff Kronschnabl, the director of code enforcement, saying he was “insulted” by the city’s action.
“You have no right to override the Constitution and the principals for which so many men and women have fought and died to uphold,” wrote Christopher (whose last name is being withheld). “You are in violation of the supreme law of the land, which supersedes some trivial contrary (and therefore illegal) code, and should immediately withdraw your fines and retract your flawed and invalid laws.
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