Moscow City Council take note: The third generation of Wilson hoodlums is now roaming your streets. If you want to stop the crime before it gets worse (and it will get worse), then you can do so by cancelling NSA’s Conditional Use Permit (CUP). This would immediately and irreparably destroy the Kirk’s economy, displacing hundreds of faculty, staff, and students — as well as many Kirk families that rely on monthly income from the Christ Church network of illegal boarding houses.
There would be another added benefit worth your consideration: It logically follows that if you destroy the Kirk economy, you would slow down the flow of sex offenders that Pastor Douglas Wilson recruits to Moscow.
Kill the CUP; kill the cancer.
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Man who posted ‘Soviet Moscow’ stickers found guilty
Rory Wilson convicted on misdemeanor charge stemming from October 2020 incident
Staff report May 18, 2022A 20-year-old Moscow man who put “Soviet Moscow” stickers on city of Moscow properties in 2020 was found guilty Monday.
Rory Wilson was ordered to pay $257.50 in fines and fees, $186.80 in restitution and be on unsupervised probation for 90 days. Prosecuting Attorney Liz Warner said Wilson is also required to write an essay to the court about legal protests as part of his sentence.
Rory Wilson was found guilty of one count of posting on fences, buildings and poles on public property without consent following a two-day jury trial in Latah County Magistrate Court.
A sticker is seen on the backdoor of a building on Main Street in Moscow in October 2020. Rory Wilson, of Moscow, was found guilty this week on a misdemeanor charge of posting on fences, buildings and poles on public property without consent.
Geoff Crimmins/Daily News file photoWilson, his juvenile brother, and his father, Nathan Wilson, were charged in October 2020 with the misdemeanor count. Rory and Nathan Wilson pleaded not guilty. Nathan Wilson’s case is still pending.
After subpoenas, motions, orders and several other actions over the subsequent months, Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall on June 18 denied Rory and Nathan Wilson’s motions to dismiss the charges.
The Daily News reported in July that, according to Marshall’s written decision, which included the facts of the case, Moscow police officers were dispatched to a report of two males placing “Soviet Moscow” stickers in the early morning hours of Oct. 6, 2020, in downtown Moscow. Officers made contact with Rory Wilson and his younger brother, who both informed officers they placed stickers, including on signs and poles, as a form of legal protest.
The court documents said Rory Wilson carried a pail containing red vinyl stickers displaying a hammer and sickle symbol akin to the USSR flag with the words “Soviet Moscow” or “Soviet Moscow: Enforced Because We Care.”
The stickers appeared to mock the city’s “Mask Moscow: Enforced Because We Care” signs that were placed on the edges of town during the city’s face covering and social distancing order.
Officers searched the area and found “Soviet Moscow” stickers on city property and private property, the documents said.
Nathan Wilson informed officers he was aware his sons were going to put up the stickers but encouraged them not to place them on private property.
In March 2021, the Daily News reported that Nathan Wilson made the “Soviet Moscow” stickers, which is why he was charged, according to Doug Wilson, pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, father of Nathan Wilson and grandfather of Rory Wilson and his brother.
Doug Wilson said the sticker posting was an expression of free speech, adding that criticizing the actions of the government is legal.
“It’s political speech, free speech,” Doug Wilson said.
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Dear author, I appreciate your website. I would also like to see the CUPs canceled, but cannot find specifically broken conditions. Have you identified any? I have had some challenges getting copies emailed from the city, though they have welcomed me to come down to the office to review them in person/scan them. Canceling the permits based on “it seems the community does not like you” will result in lawsuits related to religious freedoms, something the city is currently under scrutiny for.
Agreed that Council cannot cancel the permit because “We do not like you.” However, I do not believe Council needs cause — or if they do, then a quick glance at the application shows they have all the wiggle room they need.
Application for CUP
The conditions are mostly subjective. But to me the best argument is this: NSA’s Chairman of the Board (Doug Wilson) and his son (Nate Wilson), who is on the faculty, now use their positions within the Kirk community (which includes NSA) to encourage vandalism of public property — or lawlessness. And no authority at NSA will call them to account because this is NSA’s defacto policy.
Now square NSA’s defacto policy with these two sections of the application:
§7 Criteria #2 “THE CHARACTER OF THE PROPOSED USE WILL BE IN HARMONY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SURROUNDING LAND USES.”
§7 Criteria #3. “THE PROPOSED USE AS APPROVED, OR AS APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS, WILL NOT GENERATE NUISANCES THAT WOULD BE INJURIOUS OR DETRIMENTAL TO ADJOINING PROPERTIES OR THE NEIGHBORHOOD (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NOISE, DUST, GLARE, VIBRATIONS, ODORS AND THE LIKE).”
But again, I think Council can pull the trigger without cause.
Also, if I was on Council, I would retain my own attorney to review this. I would not trust the city attorney, because they almost always take the path of least resistance.