Posted on 12/03/2009 11:17:07 AM PST by Mrs. Frogjerk
That would be like asking, is it legal to subdivide property and sell it to people insisting that the constitution has no legal force over your property.
And what’s wrong with Americans agreeing to live together in small communities by their selected rules, without trying to governmentally impose those rules on outsiders?
“And what’s wrong with Americans agreeing to live together in small communities by their selected rules, without trying to governmentally impose those rules on outsiders?”
Plenty of things. What if part of the agreement is a requirement to abide by Sharia?
He isn't asking for anything that is unreasonable. They should at least consider it. If they want to allow the other neighbors(most support him) to have some input on it before they make their decision fine.
He isn't asking if he can install a 20 ft porcelain duck in his front yard, it's a flag pole.
In my heart, and apparently you don't agree, I think that in certain situations, you should take certain things(bravery and sacrifice) into consideration and break the damn rule once in awhile.
“And what’s wrong with Americans agreeing to live together in small communities by their selected rules, without trying to governmentally impose those rules on outsiders?”
Plenty of things. What if part of the agreement is a requirement to abide by Sharia?
In my heart, and apparently you don’t agree, I think that in certain situations, you should take certain things(bravery and sacrifice) into consideration and break the damn rule once in awhile.
Or the neighbors can all vote to change the rules, so the Board can enforce the rules they prefer.
I swear, some people here are being ruled by emotion, like a bunch of Democrats.
One other point.
He said that he will ultimately abide by the rule if he has to. He is not saying that he is above it. He merely wants to at least discuss it with them but they have no interest in what he has to say.
That is cruel. Especially considering his past service.
That’s the main point of the article.
That rule sounds vague and you should at least be able to challenge it if they try to enforce it.
There was no way for him to know that it would violate the rules of the community.
After reading this article, there is no way in hell that I would live in one of these communities. These places are as close as your going to get to a Marxist state actually existing in this country.
I could be wrong though. Who knows what this country will look like after Obama gets through with it.
So the question then is whether they can lawfully restrict the display of the flag. I don’t see anything in the constitution that says it’s ok to display the flag in your window, but not ok to fly it off a 21 foot flagpole.
>>So the question then is whether they can lawfully restrict the display of the flag.
There’s no law to prohibit a private property owner from restricting the MANNER of display of the flag on his own property.
>> I don’t see anything in the constitution that says it’s ok to display the flag in your window, but not ok to fly it off a 21 foot flagpole.
Why would you expect this to be in the Constitution, and what point are you trying to make?
There was no way for him to know that it would violate the rules of the community.
Ask Mrs. Kelo.
Kelo?
That has nothing to do with this.
A personal shortcoming I'm sure.
Right up your alley.
Yeah. We have a kind of triangular island between the back lawn and the pasture where the frog pond drains into a stream.
I had thought of eventually building a fake Japanese bridge across the stream, but one of my sons got in there first with his chicken and duck coops. All home made from milled lumber from our cedar trees and roofed with roofing scraps left over from doing the barns. So we just bridged it with a couple of logs and some leftover pallets.
Anyway, it’s a more socially acceptable scene than my daughter’s pigs and goats a couple of miles down the road.
If a HOA can decree this an eyesore or whatever in the name of uniformity or protecting property values there’s also a flip side.
Their actions in this case have grossly devalued property values far more than a flag pole ever could.
What’s going to happen to resale values or selling out unsold units in a community like this if prospective buyers are under the impression that the HOA is a bunch of busy body Stasi wannabe’s? This puts the entire community in a negative light and even if it dissuades 10-15% of potential buyers from making bids or not looking at the community as an option you’ve devalued properties far faster than any market trend.
Kelo is aout rights and having rights taken away by majority votes of your neighbors.
Buying an expecting the rules not to apply to you sounds like a Democrat.
When you buy these places, people may not realize that it is as strict as it is. Now he knows unfortunately.
Now getting back to this case. They have made this particular rule ambiguous. They are going to have to explain why this flag pole is not pleasing to the eye. Unless they said explicitly that there are no flag poles allowed they may have a problem. They shouldn't be allowed to make these ambiguous rules and just think that they can lord over people like they are the damned monarchy.
There were no restrictions against flag poles. The fascista's simply made it up when they decided a flag pole offended their sense of aesthetics. Which is exactly what happens when you move into one of these little fiefdoms.
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