<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Once the Humanists get the sign redone, and I really hope they do, would it be that hard to REMOVE the ladder leading up to the platform?<div>Carrying a can of paint at night is one thing, but paint and a ladder? Perhaps the creeps could be caught that way.</div><div>Or, perhaps a camera, so the creeps could be identified and prosecuted?</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Joe Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>This is against free speech, against property rights, and against religious freedom.<br><br><br></div><div><br>On Nov 4, 2009, at 2:38 PM, keely emerinemix <<a href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com"></a><a href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">kjajmix1@msn.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I wish whoever is doing this would knock it off. If the most courageous stand you can make for your faith in God is to deface a billboard, you've really got some spiritual inventory to examine.<br><br><font color="#8064a2"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt; "><font face="Verdana">Keely<br><a href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com"></a><a href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a><br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:london@moscow.com"></a><a href="mailto:london@moscow.com"></a><a href="mailto:london@moscow.com">london@moscow.com</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vision2020@secure.fsr.com"></a><a href="mailto:vision2020@secure.fsr.com"></a><a href="mailto:vision2020@secure.fsr.com">vision2020@secure.fsr.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:55 -0800<br>Subject: [Vision2020] vandals strike again<br><br><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Humanist Billboard Vandalized in Moscow, Idaho…Again<br><br>(Washington, D.C, November 4, 2009) An individual or individuals have<br>defaced a billboard in Moscow, Idaho… again. The billboard originally<br>read "Millions are good without God" but was partially obscured with<br>blue paint to now read “Millions are good with God”. It's the second<br>time the American Humanist Association (AHA)-sponsored billboard has<br>been vandalized in two weeks. In the first instance the word "without"<br>was completely blacked out, after which the AHA quickly replaced the<br>billboard. The advertisement, which was originally placed<br>mid-September, is part of an American Humanist Association advertising<br>campaign to spread awareness about being good without God. It's the<br>third billboard advertisement the organization has displayed in the<br>Moscow area and similar ads have been put up around the country.<br><br>A picture of the vandalized billboard can be found here:<br></font><a href="http://www.americanhumanist.org/system/storage/29/1225/Picture_002.jpg"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.americanhumanist.org/system/storage/29/1225/Picture_002.jpg</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">.<br>The billboard can be found on Highway 95, just south of Moscow near<br>the Sweet Avenue cross street, facing northbound traffic.<br><br>"The irony here is worth noting," said David Niose, president of the<br>American Humanist Association. "Some individuals are committing<br>criminal acts while apparently claiming that their religious view of<br>the world leads to good behavior. It's not a very convincing argument<br>on their part."<br><br>"This is not just vandalism, it is religiously motivated vandalism<br>which attempts to silence a minority viewpoint," added Niose.<br>"Everyone, not just humanists, should be concerned about such acts."<br><br>The Moscow Police Department notified the AHA this morning. They<br>believe the ad defaced between 1 and 3 am. The AHA has alerted the<br>billboard company who leased the space, Lamar Outdoor, who said they<br>will start leaving the lights on round the clock. The AHA will be<br>replacing the billboard but hasn't yet decided whether to go with the<br>same design.<br><br>"I’m disturbed that this happened again," said Roy Speckhardt,<br>executive director of the American Humanist Association. "Two<br>consecutive crimes in a town where the last incidence of billboard<br>vandalism was years ago makes it obvious that humanists and our<br>message are being targeted.”<br><br>The American Humanist Association (</font><a href="http://www.americanhumanist.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">www.americanhumanist.org</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">) advocates<br>for the rights and viewpoints of humanists. Founded in 1941 and<br>headquartered in Washington, D.C., its work is extended through more<br>than 100 local chapters and affiliates across the United States.<br><br>Humanism is the idea that you can be good without a belief in God.<br><br>###<br><br>Contact:<br>Karen Frantz<br>202-238-9088<br>cell: 703-725-4112<br></font><a href="mailto:kfrantz@americanhumanist.org"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">kfrantz@americanhumanist.org</font></a><br></font></div><br><hr>Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9690331&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009" target="_new">Learn more.</a></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br><span>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. </span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net"></a><a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"></a><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"></a><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></div><div></div>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>