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An Oregon apartment complex is banning its residents from flying American flags, not only from their dwellings but also their vehicles, KATU in Portland reported.
Residents' outrage started when Jim Clausen, whose son is in the military and on his way back to Iraq, was told he couldn't fly an American flag from the back of his motorcycle.
If he didn't take the flag down, he was told he'd face eviction, the station reported.
"It floored me," Clausen told the station. "I can't believe she was saying what she was saying. It [the flag] stands for the people that can no longer stand - who died in wars. That's why I fly the flag."
Sharron White, a long-time resident, was told by management to take down the flag she's flown on her car for eight years because "someone might get offended."
"I just said to her, 'They'll just have to get over it,'" White told the station.
The ban also applies to flag stickers on cars, as well as sports flags.
KATU attempted to contact management at the apartment complex, but no one returned their calls.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566 ... latestnews
Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
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Re: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
Anyone who's offended by the American flag is welcome to live in an apartment block in a nation whose flag they don't find offensive.
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Re: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
This could only happen in Northen Oregon cause Southern Oregonians would never stand for that shit.
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Re: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
According to FoxNews this morning, management has rescinded the ban.
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Re: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
They ought to be charged with treason!
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Re: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
Agreed.Bugsy wrote:This could only happen in Northen Oregon cause Southern Oregonians would never stand for that shit.
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I'm curious whether people can have flags from OTHER countries? I smell a discrimination lawsuit. People here in NJ have almost every flag in the world hangin or stuck on somewhere.
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Re: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag
I wonder if that apartment complex manager feels safe. In most places they would charge the manager with treason or sedition!
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