Thursday, December 14, 2006

Effigy of 'Arab' stirs uneasiness in San Anselmo


An effigy of a man in Arab headdress hanging from a gallows in a San Anselmo yard has become the latest public display of politics to raise eyebrows in a town becoming known for that type of thing.

Pat La Tray, 57, built the gallows for the straw effigy - which has an American flag piercing its heart - after police asked him to take it out of a tree on town property in front of his house at 330 Greenfield Ave. He built the effigy for Halloween, but said he has decided to leave it up as a symbol of his support for troops fighting in the Iraq war and his stance against terrorism.

"It is a patriotic symbol," La Tray said. "It has nothing to do with race or religion."

Nearby resident Pilar Sinelnikoff said she doesn't care what La Tray says. The effigy offends her every time she walks by it.
"I'm appalled he calls himself an American," she said. "He's pathetic."


Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a man painted a large American flag on his wooden fence along Center Boulevard near the Fairfax border. He reversed the boards on the fence after a vandal kept spray-painting it.


Entire article here.

2 comments:

  1. Isn't it funny (well...not really funny)that radicals can burn our flag and effigies of our President but when someone tries to put the shoe on the other foot, they are called vial and pathetic?!

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  2. G-d forbid we should stand up for America, if we do , we are intolerant. I AM INTOLERANT OF THOSE THAT WANT TO ERADICATE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I AM INTOLERANT TO EVIL. I DON'T TOLERATE EVIL, I WANT IT STOPPED. So I guess my critics are correct, I AM AN INTOLERANT AMERICAN !

    Jeff Davis

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