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Ohio city removing white supremacy posters

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  5 years ago  •  5 comments

Ohio city removing white supremacy posters
Despite the signs being up for at least a week, city officials had not received any comments regarding them and were unaware of their existence.

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ZANESVILLE - A number of posters promoting Patriot Front, a white supremacy group, have popped up around downtown Zanesville.

A tweet from Patriot Front's official account highlights some of the posters, which have been plastered on lamp posts and telephone poles.


#PatriotFront activists placed posters around Zanesville, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/LGPZxANekU
— Patriot Front (@PatriotFront2) February 28, 2019

Two of the signs feature an outline of the United States, with "Not Stolen, Conquered" and a link to the organization's website accompanying it. Another encourages people to report undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line.

Despite the signs being up for at least a week, city officials had not received any comments regarding them and were unaware of their existence.

Matthew Schlay, associate planner for the city's Community Development Department, was shocked when the Times Recorder approached him about them Wednesday.

"These signs will be sent immediately to the street department" for removal, Schlay said.

The signs on lamp posts and traffic poles violate the city's sign policy that prohibits signs in the public right-of-way. The removal, Schlay stressed, is not due to the content of the signs.

"Content is not what's getting them," he said. "In this situation, because of where the sign is located, we don't permit those anywhere, no matter where it is."

In December, the city updated its sign regulation policy to comply with a 2015 Supreme Court ruling prohibiting municipalities from considering a sign's content when approving sign permits.

The signs around town do not have any clearly-labeled sign permits.

Patriot Front, a Texas-based organization, is one of the most active white supremacy groups, the Anti-Defamation League reports, with four separate incidents of propaganda distribution in Columbus in 2018. No incidents have been reported in or near Muskingum County since the ADL began tracking incidents in 2002.

White supremacy propaganda has been on the rise in recent years across the nation, as groups are becoming more visible. The ADL noted a record-setting 1,187 incidents of posted white supremacist propaganda in 2018, compared to 421 the year before, according to a new report from the organization.


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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

Pretty interesting story. According to the article, no one passing by complained about the posters, which essentially brag about the near genocide of Native American people throughout US history, but they were removed because a newspaper saw them and reported their locations to the city.

The poster depicts a dog eat dog mindset where "conquering" other people's lands is a "good thing".  The days of glorifying such a discredited national ideology should be long gone, but evidently they are not to everyone.  All a "win at all cost" philosophy does is ensure violence and corruption.

 
 
 
Kavika
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1.1  Kavika   replied to  JohnRussell @1    5 years ago
The days of glorifying such a discredited national ideology should be long gone, but evidently they are not to everyone

Evidently they aren't...Sad.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

Zanesville is a small city of 25,000 people located roughly in the center of Ohio.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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3  Perrie Halpern R.A.    5 years ago

I think this says a lot about that town. I know that this would never be acceptable anywhere in NYC or Long Island. Really sad. 

 
 
 
Ender
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4  Ender    5 years ago
"Content is not what's getting them," he said. "In this situation, because of where the sign is located, we don't permit those anywhere, no matter where it is."

So they don't care what the sign says, just where it was put? Pathetic.

 
 

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