Posted on 10/12/2011 8:36:59 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
ANNISTON, Ala. -- Officials with the parent company of Olive Garden restaurants say they're sorry if a decision regarding an Alabama Kiwanis club's desire to display the American flag caused any concern.
The comments come after 80-year-old Marti Warren of Anniston said she wasn't allowed to bring an American flag into an Olive Garden for a planned Kiwanis Club banquet in the east Alabama town of Oxford.
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You are free to accept the will of other people to be forced on you, because that is what will eventually happen if you don’t have discourse with people you disagree with, which is what is happening here.
That is your choice.
People out there think abortion is fine. If you don’t speak out, you are de facto agreeing with them.
People think socialism is the way things should be right. We just leave them alone, let them speak their minds, then gee, one day, we are all living in a controlled economy with shortages of everything.
It will and does happen exactly in that fashion.
You and I disagree on this.
Yes, we do. Personally, I believe that silence only speaks to those that have already decided what they want to hear.
Or the old USSR sickle and hammer flag.
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