Supervisor Asks Woman to Take Down American Flag

KVTV Channel 11 Dallas ^ | 5/26/09 | Carol Cavazos

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Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

Kindred Hospital - Mansfield 1802 Highway 157 North Mansfield, TX 76063 Phone: (817) 473-6101 TX TDD/TTY# 800-735-2988 Fax: (817) 473-5538

[RebelTXRose]

Now THAT’s UNAMERICAN!!! Small town hospital - probably a small dictatorship in management. UGH!

Must say I was please to see some parade marchers (in Revolutionary era dress) carrying the striped Gadsden flag.

[kbennkc]

I guess the old joke might be true . Some people are so uselessly sorry they can only get a job at a hospital making people sick .

[missnry]

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie's flag herself.

Don't tell me... he was from KENYA, right?

[Voter62vb]

I just DO NOT understand why ANYONE in this country -right or left- would be against a flag that is the very symbol of freedom of expression. Ayers is given the right to “express” his particular snake venom from the Constitution that is represented by the flag of the USA.

What kind of twisted self-hating, small thinking, strategy is hating our flag??!!

Unless one just wants to give up on USA, period, and join the world that really DOESN’T love us any better with Obama in the white house- just happy our Pres is now a house cat instead of a tiger...somebody get me a Marlboro...

[Sig Sauer P220]

Maybe she should put up a Confederate flag instead.

[libertarian27]

Yes, but it’s Obama’s flag now..../sarc

[muawiyah]

Some people do not immediately respond to having their flags taken down ~ frankly, I've never had that problem. Maybe folks check the red hair or something ~ figure I'd kick their Commie tails back to the slime pit they came from.

This woman needs to haul this particular putz to court and strip him of his wealth and reputation.

[bgill]

"The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor,"

Obviously one of Hussein's relatives.

[I Buried My Guns]

Sounds like a commie african needs a good hickory shampoo!

Somebody needs to beat some patriotism into that man, or woman.

[BulletBobCo]

I just forwarded this article to the American Legion.

http://www.legion.org/national/contact?con=NatlCmdr

They don’t take kindly to flag issues such as this.

[whatisthetruth]

She should’ve put the flag right back up, it was in honor of Memorial Day and who cares if our Nation’s flag is offensive to foreigners. They don’t like it, they can go back to their own country.

[bgill]

Thank you for the phone number. I am calling them this morning and having a little heart to heart with them. We’ve let the left and foreigners bully their way all over our freedoms, it’s time to stand up for what this country stands for. I challenge everyone to contact the hospital.

[Robert DeLong]

I called that number and connected to the admin office and let them know I was offened that they have people working for them that are offended by our flag. FIRE THEM NOW!!!!

Everyone ought to call and express their offense.

[metmom]

Anyone who finds the flag offensive needs to leave the country that it represents.

Yesterday.....

[Liz]

MESSAGE TO: Kindred Hospital - Mansfield 1802 Highway 157 North Mansfield, TX 76063
Phone: (817) 473-6101 TX TDD/TTY# 800-735-2988 Fax: (817) 473-5538

CALM DOWN KINDRED: Napolitano Pulls Right-Wing Extremism Report
The Washington Times ^ | May 14, 2009 | Audrey Hudson
FR Posted 05/14/2009 by conservativegramma

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Capitol Hill lawmakers her contentious "Rightwing Extremism" report was not authorized, has been withdrawn and is being rewritten. Ms. Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee last Wednesday. "The report is no longer out there.An employee sent it out without authorization."

Napolitano did not say when the report was taken off the "intel Web site" and all Homeland Security Department Web sites, but she said it is in the process of being "replaced or redone in a much more useful and much more precise fashion."

The Napolitano report paints EVERY ASPECT OF CONSERVATISM as suspect and specific groups designated a threat to national security. Specifically mentioned in the Report: patriots, homosexuality, abortion opponents , gun control opponents, immigration, border security, states rights advocates, Christians, military, and Constitution originalists.

The Napolitano report was sent to state and local law enforcement officials nationwide and was posted on the department's internal Web site on April 7. The report angered Republican lawmakers and military veterans who said it unfairly stereotyped veterans...and patriots. (Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...

[kittymyrib]

This African supervisor should be fired. What is it with immigrants who come to this country, find a way of life vastly superior to the countries from which they fled, and then show their contempt for the USA? This should be a deportable offense.

[Clioman]

“McLucas said hospital bosses told her as far as patriotism was concerned, the flag flying outside the hospital building would have to suffice.”

And how will they respond when the ‘offended person’ complains about that flag, as well? Or the U.S. flags often worn on the shoulders of the paramedics driving the ambulances?

[Liz]

REFERENCE “The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced that it filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The lawsuit claims that her Department’s “Rightwing Extremism Policy,” as reflected in the recently publicized Intelligence Assessment, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” violates the civil liberties of combat veterans as well as American citizens by targeting them for disfavored treatment on account of their political beliefs...”

CONTACT http://www.thomasmore.org/default-sb_thomasmore.html?291838522

[Dubya]

Bump Mansfield is that kind of town. They have never heard of a tax they don’t like. I will contact them later, maybe a lawsuit.