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2009-10-14 Fifth Column
Apartment residents told to take down U.S. flags
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Posted by Steve White 2009-10-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 The tyrannies of petty officialdom.
Posted by gromky 2009-10-14 00:49||   2009-10-14 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 One wonders what the apartment owners think of all this bad publicity....
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-14 00:58||   2009-10-14 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Take them up on their eviction threat. Maybe NOT flying flags will offend more people than flying them will.

Whenever I hear that I know that the management is not really worried about someone possibly being offended. I mean, so they are willing to lose renters who ARE paying rent for fear they MIGHT lose one at some point in the future because they saw a flag on someone's private property?

Evict me for displaying an American flag on my personal property? I would challenge them on it and I would be handing out flag stickers to every single resident of the place.
Posted by crosspatch 2009-10-14 01:17||   2009-10-14 01:17|| Front Page Top

#4 there is a cultural split in the northwest, tons of clueless, coddled, entitled liberals whose favorite pastimes are finding things to be offended by, esp. in western oregon and washington.
Posted by 746 2009-10-14 01:50||   2009-10-14 01:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Take them up on their eviction threat.

Than find a hungry & greedy lawyer...
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-10-14 02:55||   2009-10-14 02:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd be offended if someone was offended by the flag of the country they were living in.

HINT: If you're offended by a Flag, you're in the wrong country. Leave on the next flight.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-14 06:08||   2009-10-14 06:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds just like the UK nowadays ...

Put a flag up , get told it offends some particular group or council .
Posted by Oscar 2009-10-14 07:01||   2009-10-14 07:01|| Front Page Top

#8 It's one of those effortless projects, they make their own lists so that everyone else doesn't have to bother later.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-14 08:40||   2009-10-14 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Check out Google Maps Street View. The first thing you see is a freakin' flag!

If I lived there I would fly a flag every day, and ask management to sue me. Then I'd call the ACLU and get them to defend me, since this is a civil liberties issue.

Right? Are those crickets I hear?
Posted by Parabellum 2009-10-14 08:56|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]  2009-10-14 08:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Leave at the first opportunity and let them get taken over by one of the offended groups.
Posted by gorb 2009-10-14 10:52||   2009-10-14 10:52|| Front Page Top

#11 First off, it's spectacularly hard to evict people even when they're late on their rent. This is pretty chickenshit grounds to kick somebody out. Wonder if their premises are septic or they're terminally late on rent or something like that and they're trying to kick up dust with a bogus flag-persecution claim?

Secondly, the article is talking about flags on cars. What goddamn business is it of a rental business what's flying on their renters' personal vehicles?

Thirdly, if chuckledicks would concentrate on flying American flags from their pickups instead of those goddamn CBFs, I'd be jake with the world.

Fourthly, if old Glory is pissing 'em off, find yourself a Gadsden.
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2009-10-14 11:42|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2009-10-14 11:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Then I'd call the ACLU and get them to defend me, since this is a civil liberties issue.

Um, no.

“It is my understanding in Oregon that an owner of private property can apply those types of restrictions,” said Jann Carson, the associate director of the ACLU of Oregon.

Hit the link to read about a case in Indiana where the ACLU had a different opinion.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2009-10-14 14:47||   2009-10-14 14:47|| Front Page Top

#13 What Bright Pebbles said.

If true this is despicable. Odds are the manager does not own the property and unless a relative of the owner will be looking for a new job soon. Even if the owner originally instigated this you have a really bad public relations problem at this point.
Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-14 15:41||   2009-10-14 15:41|| Front Page Top

#14 "Come and take it."
Posted by mojo 2009-10-14 17:38||   2009-10-14 17:38|| Front Page Top

#15 I understand the ban has been rescinded.
Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-14 22:44||   2009-10-14 22:44|| Front Page Top

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