Thanks for the links. That made my work a bit easier.
At 7:00 pm I sent the following to Mayor Mayans: "I am writing today based on the article below. I am shocked that this city, my city is embarassed at our national flag. How anyone can presume that a national emblem would somehow give preferences to some group or groups at the expense of another group or groups it pure bull. The people that are here in this nation are here because they want to be. No one made them come or stay. Wichita is a city in the USA and should proudly fly the USA flag. Are we next going to say that city hall can not have the Kansas state flag flying? Where does something like this end? It is not as if people from another nation need to be protected from knowing where they are, they are the ones that chose to come here. If anyone who was born here does not like the Stars and Stripes they are welcome to leave. Citizens of this country should not be offended at having the USA flag taken down because of a small number of people that just want to make trouble. The flag should be allowed to be hung simply because it is our flag. No one should be able to tell us that we can not fly our own flag.
Here is the article that I am basing this on:
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/570502.html Flag Controversy
KAKE News
KAKE News anonymously received a copy of an interoffice e-mail from the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer of the City of Wichita. The e-mail was sent nine months ago after an American flag was removed from a city break room. The e-mail was sent to city personnel department to explain why the flag was taken down.
The e-mail reads, "Let's refrain from placing things in common areas that might appear to show a preference of one group over another… Shortly after 9/11, we had flags all over the place up front. In retrospect, that was probably not appropriate either."
The e-mail does not mention a March 26 war protest outside City Hall. During the protests, someone put an American flag in a window facing the protestors. The city says after the flag went up, three employees questioned their safety in the break room. The city says that is why the e-mail was sent out.
Wichita attorney and Regional ACLU Chairman Jim Lawing says the city did not do anything wrong. Lawing says the American flag was taken down because the city wanted to stay neutral on the issue.
Thank you for reconsidering this issue."
I just received a response from Mayor Mayans.
Here is his response.
"I agree with your thoughts. I have discussed this matter with the employee
that had the window sticker flag removed and it is my belief that this
employee over reacted to the demostrators and what she viewed as a safety
issue. I don't believe she had any intention to degrade our flag.
I would not tolerate anyone who disrepects our flag.
Carlos Mayans"
I wonder if the person that wrote and sent the e-mail was trying to take advantage of the flag removal. I also wonder if the person that sent the e-mail was one of the scary protestors back when this all happened.