Chilling message on abandoned Packard Plant removed by popular blogger

Randy was appalled by the notion that images he couldn’t copyright could continue to be extracted from his pet project. Here is a quote of his in an article http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/3640/the_nazi-themed_sign_at_the_packard_plant_is_down_was_it_art_or_a_slur :
“I didn’t want this image of this sign to go nationwide or international, because it is that kind of thing that they would report on in Russia, Saudi Arabia. . . . Germany. Israel. I decided to publish my photos and talk about taking the sign down to steal thunder away from whoever did it, and turn the control back around to our side. Now it is a story about some guy getting rid of a massively inappropriate sign. That is better than everyone gawking at the sign for weeks, and filling the Flickr pages with photos of it.”
Now the bridge only promotes vandalism, drug use (see “TOKE”), and poverty, but its much less offensive to Russians now.
It seems he likes to steal appearances from public view, embed them with his URL to protect them from “copyright infringement” and use them to bring attention to his blog, as you’ll notice here: https://www.facebook.com/detroitempire
All you need is a camera, and the world is yours.

“Self-righteous superhero” seems to me as overdone as the original sign.

“A straight up hate crime” would imply that this was actually directed at one of the groups who were targeted during that infamous genocide. It’s pretty clear to me that the area around the Packard is predominately populated by blacks folks who were not at all numerous before, during, or after in the areas that participated in the holocaust.

The only link I see between the industrialists and Hitler is their planned fascist coup which never happened. There was also their tacit support before the war that got lost in the patriotic fervor that imprisoned many Asian Americans and rendered people with Axis ties suspect.

It doesn’t make sense to be offended by this sign.

Be offended by our continued inability to implement poverty reduction at a level that would actually make all of this richest country’s neighborhoods places that we could take pride in. Be offended that there are still people who go bankrupt because we want to make a profit from their healthcare. Be offended that the bank-owned houses that surround the Packard aren’t secured and kept up to code. Be offended that most Americans’ wages haven’t risen when adjusted for inflation for over four decades.

The sign should’ve been placed at the Ford Highland Park factory when you consider Ford and GM’s operations in Germany leading up to and even during WWII. I think people have just forgotten history all of these years later. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm

How ironic that a “blogger”, someone who you think would appreciate “freedom of speech”, would remove something that didn’t coincide with his own beliefs! Hypocrite!