Residents Told To Remove American Flag

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Even long-time residents like Sharron White, who has flown a flag on her car for eight years, has been told to take it down.

White said management told her that "someone might get offended."

"I just said to her 'They'll just have to get over it,'" White said.
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now you're talking.
 
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What complete crap. Surely this is illegal? I'll be honest, I prefer more subdued patriotism. We sing the national anthem before national sports events, such as England soccer/football games, but not before every sporting event like here..and I never see people flying the Union Flag outside their homes (to be honest its seen as being slightly trashy to do so). I prefer it that way, although I always stand/take off my hat when I'm at an American sports event and respect it. I'm a defender of patriotism, but not when it crosses the line into jingoism as some people tend to take it. Anyway, getting off point, I really dont see a reason for this. How could someone possibly be offended by a flag?? I guarantee that if this company had to go out and try and find a single person who was offended by it, they wouldnt be able to. It kind of reminds me of all the stories in the right wing press each Xmas about local authorities banning the word 'Christmas' in case it offends non-Christians.....yet they cant find a single example of anyone being offended by it. I think its down to the ridiculously over litigious age we live in. Everyone is terrified of offending someone in case they get sued for it.
 
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I'd consider it trashy to fly an English flag as well. You and I are in perfect accord.
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I would like to personally talk to those who are offended by our nations flag. They should be on the first boat back to where they came from.
 
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pejp said:
What complete crap. Surely this is illegal? I'll be honest, I prefer more subdued patriotism. We sing the national anthem before national sports events, such as England soccer/football games, but not before every sporting event like here..and I never see people flying the Union Flag outside their homes (to be honest its seen as being slightly trashy to do so). I prefer it that way, although I always stand/take off my hat when I'm at an American sports event and respect it. I'm a defender of patriotism, but not when it crosses the line into jingoism as some people tend to take it. Anyway, getting off point, I really dont see a reason for this. How could someone possibly be offended by a flag?? I guarantee that if this company had to go out and try and find a single person who was offended by it, they wouldnt be able to. It kind of reminds me of all the stories in the right wing press each Xmas about local authorities banning the word 'Christmas' in case it offends non-Christians.....yet they cant find a single example of anyone being offended by it. I think its down to the ridiculously over litigious age we live in. Everyone is terrified of offending someone in case they get sued for it.
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I bet you a million dollars I could find plenty of people that would be offended by the flag in Nashville, TN or Atlanta. I sure as hell could find several people that are offended by it in Portland.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I bet you a million dollars I could find plenty of people that would be offended by the flag in Nashville, TN or Atlanta. I sure as hell could find several people that are offended by it in Portland.
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Like I said before, all these people have no business being in this country.
 
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pejp said:
What complete crap. Surely this is illegal? I'll be honest, I prefer more subdued patriotism. We sing the national anthem before national sports events, such as England soccer/football games, but not before every sporting event like here..and I never see people flying the Union Flag outside their homes (to be honest its seen as being slightly trashy to do so). I prefer it that way, although I always stand/take off my hat when I'm at an American sports event and respect it. I'm a defender of patriotism, but not when it crosses the line into jingoism as some people tend to take it. Anyway, getting off point, I really dont see a reason for this. How could someone possibly be offended by a flag?? I guarantee that if this company had to go out and try and find a single person who was offended by it, they wouldnt be able to. It kind of reminds me of all the stories in the right wing press each Xmas about local authorities banning the word 'Christmas' in case it offends non-Christians.....yet they cant find a single example of anyone being offended by it. I think its down to the ridiculously over litigious age we live in. Everyone is terrified of offending someone in case they get sued for it.
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confederate_flag.jpg
You've never seen or heard about this I take it?
 
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Florida flags offend me, you dont see me running aorund making my coworkers take that crap down
 
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I'm surprised there was no reference to the rental agreements and whether or not there was anything that actually stated this was not allowed. Either way, I've never seen an apartment complex try so hard to lose tenants! Absolutely amazing.
 
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TXVOL07 said:
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You've never seen or heard about this I take it?
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people also take that flag out of context,

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that is actually the flag of the confederacy.

Kinda looks like the State of Georgia flag. hrmmmm :ermm:
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I bet you a million dollars I could find plenty of people that would be offended by the flag in Nashville, TN or Atlanta. I sure as hell could find several people that are offended by it in Portland.
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I could probably find more who are offended they were forced to take the US flag down. That group just doesn't yell as loud
 
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Im aware of that, but most people that it offends dont know that and cant make that distinction.
 
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This country is in a very sad state of affairs. What the hell is "freedom" when you can't even fly your own country's damn flag when and where you want. Pretty soon they'll be throwing people in jail for killing fly's. This country is getting weaker each and every day. Pretty soon they'll take our guns away and make it illegal to hunt.

Its sad to say but this country is running 90mph straight for a brickwall. I just hope future generations will be speaking english and not arabic or chinese.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
I'd consider it trashy to fly an English flag as well. You and I are in perfect accord.
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When you know you're better than everyone else, you dont need to yell about it quite as much. We have a little thing called 'class' and 'good taste' where I'm from.

Btw, I went to Knoxville over the weekend! Old City was cool. Wasnt a big fan of the strip on Cumberland Ave though. The stadium was amazing. It's still hard to comprehend that a college stadium can have a capacity that huge. The game was great as well.
 
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