Posted on 01/12/2010 9:58:42 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
An owner of an apartment complex in Rolling Meadows, Illinois has decided to fly the Mexican national flag side-by-side with the U.S. flag, both on 30-foot flag poles and both at the same height. Apartment owner Mike Sparks says he's doing it as an advertisement of sorts to entice Mexican immigrant tenants to come live in his apartments.
Local residents, however, are not as enticed by Sparks' anti-American advertising campaign and say that he should follow flag codes which often state that the U.S. flag should always be higher than a flag of any other nation.
This flag argument comes up a lot. The problem here is that the so-called flag codes are not enforceable by authorities. In essence, they are customs and suggestions, not legal requirements. The simple fact is the U.S. flag codes are not laws and carry no penalty for violation. It may be a case of there-outta-be-a-law, but the fact is there are none...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Shrewd businessman, crummy American.
Where is the liberal outcry about this????
I guess you can fly a foreign flag without liberal heads exploding, but you can’t fly the American Confederate flag.
Just out of curiosity is there any state or federal law that states you can’t fly the American Confederate flag?
Just go to Fort Lauderdale in the middle of winter, all of the hotels will have Canadian flags right next to the American flags.
I went to the beach there one day, and thought I had landed right in the middle of the French Riviera, with all of the Quebecois there.
I don’t like this at all but I remember many people flying Italian or Irish flags proudly where I grew up.....
It is private property and the owner is doing what he chooses to do with it. We have no grounds to complain.
We can complain all we want; what we can’t do is expect the central government to take action.
From "The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions," found here.
§ 7. Position and Manner of Display.
(g) When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace.
I don’t know of any law that prohibits flying of the Confederate flag (at least here in TX & federally). I can’t speak for other states though. Regardless though, the blacks and libs hate the Confederate flag for all the wrong reasons.
Send in freepers with ICE caps and jackets on. ICEy cold energy.
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