[metalmanx2j]

[TexGuy]

Hate Crime... Hate Crime ... Hate Crime ...

[wideawake]

Stroia would not talk with reporters, but did say by telephone that it's his right to display the Santa whether neighbors like it or not.

Why is it that people who degrade freedoms always claim to be upholding them?

[atomicpossum]

I think this fella is going to see that others have First Amendment rights, too.

They published his address and everything....hehehe.

[Yo-Yo]

So he's still hanging there? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1535810/posts

Nice pics though!

[varyouga]

I don't get it. Is the Santa supposed to be symbolic of how the RATS are killing Christmas? Or is it just a prank.

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

[Shalom Israel]

It is indeed the guy's right. It's also the neighbors' right to stop speaking to him, stage counterdecorations in their own yards, etc.

But I admit to having minimal sympathy for the kids who are "scared for santa". We didn't tell our child the silly lie, and if our neighbor had such a display I would explain to my kid that it's one guy's stupid idea of a joke. People need to grow some skin.

[NonValueAdded]

Sounds like a hate crime to me. If he was hanging a black dummy, a cross-dressed dummy, or a dummy in a yarmulke there would be no question and Stroia would be behind bars even as we read this.

[Berlin_Freeper]

To anyone living on that street... take your kid to a psychiatrist for trauma and then sue him for everything he has. Then I bet Santa will have company.

[IronJack]

"It's just nasty, there is no spirit of Christmas in this."

Absolutely right. And just as true is the fact that he has every LEGAL right in the world to BE that nasty. The fact that he would choose to do so simply indicates a misanthrope of sociopathic proportions, a man the neighborhood would be wise to shun. And if a few ... hints ... were dropped that he might be more comfortable in a different neighborhood, that would be doing him a favor.

[RGSpincich]

If that was a black Santa the $&it would hit the fan. Funny how Constitutional rights are subjected to color coding.

[discostu]

I like it. Of course I've long been threatening to put up a set of decorations based on the Spinal Tap song "Christmas with the Devil", so maybe I'm just mean

[tfecw]

Seems like the housing association would cover this sort of thing. Of course I can think of several other things that would put a stop to this.

Sigh, I wish i lived in the good ol days where people solved problems with out getting the government to fix it. Instead I get to live in a time full of government "fixes."

[MineralMan]

Maybe the next neighbor to this cretin should put up a life-sized crucifix to make a contrasting statement.

[SteveMcKing]

I laughed. (More of a smirk, really...)

[sageb1]

"The Santa doll, which neighborhood children can easily see, was put up by homeowner Ron Stroia at his home located on 555 West 50th Street in Miami Beach, the report said."

More proof of the sickness that is destroying this country. He won't be making Santa's list, but he made mine.

[popdonnelly]

What a Scrooge!

[Clint N. Suhks]

Ron Stroia at his home located on 555 West 50th Street in Miami Beach, the report said

[ArrogantBustard]

I love it ... dude even knows how to tie a proper 13 loop hangman's noose.

Down with the Fat Bastard in the Red Suit!

[kstewskis]

Since the display was put in the tree, neighbors have called police to get it removed, but officers said there is nothing they can do because the homeowner is protected under the First Amendment, Local 6 News reported.

This guy doesn't live in an HOA neighborhood, does he?

Some neighborhoods you can't even hang your American flag, but there you can hang Santa.