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007 · Jun 22, 2006

Casa D'Ice

007 · Jun 22, 2006

ScreamingEagle · Jun 22, 2006

Annie · Jun 22, 2006

Pale Rider said:

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I just gotta post this:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=6206

News Briefs ARCHIVES
5/25/2006

Anti-Immigration Signs Walk Borderline
Writer: MELISSA MEINZER

Driving past the Casa DIce restaurant, on Route 30 in North Versailles, can seem a bit like tuning in to Rush Limbaugh except without the option to turn the dial. The restaurants marquee out front, updated every few weeks, serves as a soapbox for the political observations (and, occasionally, the pasta and drink specials) of owner Bill Balsamico.

The most recent political musing, for example, read:

Dont disrespect this country. Spanish national anthems and wetbacks belong south of the Rio Grande. Push 1 to proceed in English. Push 2 for deportation.

Past messages lighting up the night have included:

Dear Mr. President, Piss on the camel jockeys. Bring home all the troops. Leave behind plenty of bombs. They will kill themselves. Thats their way of life

And this one, celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden:

Spaghetti and salad, $3.99. God bless America. One piece of shit down, one more asshole to go.

Balsamico, the grandson of an Italian immigrant, says his remarks are entirely serious.

I feel theres no reason in the world why I should have to push 1 to proceed in English in my own country, he says.

Most reactions to his sentiments are positive, he reports. He gets an occasional call about the signs profanity, however, and he did recently get a call from a woman who objected to the term wetbacks. She asked if hed consider changing the word to Mexicans.

I said, Well, Im Italian and I dont mind someone calling me a dago, he says. The difference between a Mexican and a wetback is the term wetback came from illegals swimming across the Rio Grande. Im calling a spade a spade.

North Versailles police chief James Communale says he occasionally receives complaints about the sign. Balsamico generally changes the sign when the language is offensive enough to warrant a police visit, Communale says.

Those words arent what we would want to put on the sign, the chief adds. According to the attorneys, hes covered by the First Amendment. I wish he wouldnt do it, but he has freedom of speech.

Neither the local Latino Chamber of Commerce nor the Latin American Cultural Union responded to requests for comments on the signs.

Jeffrey Krsul grew up near the restaurant, and still sees it when he visits his parents from his home in Wilkinsburg.

I can remember driving past and seeing [the sign] and thinking, What right does this person have to inflict their opinion on people just driving by? Krsul says. The coarse language everyone is exposed to that language. They arent turning on their radio and choosing to listen to what hes saying.

Balsamico, who has several 10- to 16-year-old grandchildren, recalls a complaint from a mother about her child viewing ass and bastard while riding down the road.

I said, Well, Im very sorry about that, Balsamico recalls, but if thats the worst your childs going to come across in her life, youre still doing good.

Balsamico isnt troubled by the irony of posting anti-Spanish language rhetoric on a restaurant whose name is partly in Italian. Casa dIce may not be an English-only name, he acknowledges, but you dont have to push anything to say it.
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007 · Jun 22, 2006

Kathianne said:

I just gotta post this:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/a...n with a full ball sack hanging from a spine.
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Annie · Jun 22, 2006

Pale Rider said:

I'd been sent in three different emails those signs. The last one had a link to the Casa D'Ice.

I love it. Liberals have their drive by MSM, conservatives have a sign. Hardly seems even, but they scream bloody murder anyway.

Screw liberals. The signs remind me of the story Karl just told in another post, and the rabid liberals who faced him down and made him shut up. Well this guy has decided NOT to shut up, and as he say's in his signs... "tough shit". More power to him.
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LOL! I may not agree with every sign, but damn I back his right to post 'em! He's a tough bird and that's cool!

007 · Jun 22, 2006

Kathianne said:

LOL! I may not agree with every sign, but damn I back his right to post 'em! He's a tough bird and that's cool!
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I don't agree with every one either. I picked the ones I wanted to post from the website, but I agree, he has every right to post them.

I'd love to meet the guy and shake his hand.

Hobbit · Jun 22, 2006

Don't agree with everything, but you gotta admire the honesty. This one doesn't tapdance to avoid 'offending' potential customers.

5stringJeff · Jun 23, 2006

From Kathianne's story:

"Jeffrey Krsul grew up near the restaurant, and still sees it when he visits his parents from his home in Wilkinsburg.

I can remember driving past and seeing [the sign] and thinking, What right does this person have to inflict their opinion on people just driving by? Krsul says."

What kind of idiot is this guy? Does he not understand freedom of speech??

theHawk · Jun 23, 2006

Thats how liberals will try to take away Free Speech from us. Just speaking out loud your opinion will be viewed as "forcing your beliefs on others." In a liberal Utopian world we'd all need permits to speak.

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