David Piehl writes: A more appropriate title for the article might be "Laws are for the Little People".
As detailed in the article, Sabri broke laws with impunity and now tries to hold himself up as some sort of "victim". We've heard this story before, it matches the tactics of the other Sabri brothers, specifically Basim as documented by the FBI investigation. Someday, perhaps, they will be held to the standard of the laws like almost everybody else is. List Manager wrote: >Zoning dispute pits housing rented by Somalis and rehabbed by Azzam Sabri against the Lowry Hill neighborhood organization and city zoning rules... > >http://citypages.com/databank/24/1188/article11482.asp?page=2 > >David Brauer >List manager Chris Johnson wrote: I disagree with the editorializing spin the writer of this article injected. He calls East Lowry a "tony neighborhood," for example. That's not exactly what I'd call that area, having been there many times and having several friends who live there -- one of whom's fiance was beat to death in the street where she lives by a group of unarrested assailants, which is not exactly the kind of thing most people would imagine happens in tony neighborhoods. The writer also claims an affordable housing crunch, without providing any evidence to support that claim, and despite the city's large housing vacancy rate. He also neatly sidesteps the issue of one of the two buildings having been renovated, but the other one appears to be still in a dilapidated state. I don't think the house rented by the Somali family has anything to do with the argument, either. It's a red herring at best. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
