South Vietnam flag won't fly in Oakland: Brown removes controversial topic from council agenda

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Janine DeFao

[angkor]

Skirting a controversy that has ignited from Virginia to Orange County, Oakland backed away Tuesday from becoming the latest California city to recognize the flag of vanquished South Vietnam.

The City Council was scheduled to consider a resolution making the yellow flag with three red stripes the "official flag of the Vietnamese community of Oakland," to be flown on city property and at city-sponsored events instead of the red flag with yellow star of the existing Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

[angkor]

So long as we never to see the Hanoi rag flying anywhere. It's equivalent to flying the Nazi flag or the hammer and sickle.

[steplock]

American cities, towns and states should be allowed to ONLY fly American and state flags.

The cities/states have no reason for glorifying FOREIGN flags no matter what the country....

...except for visiting foreign dignitaries (ambassadors & above) where the flags are flown for protocol

[sticker]

Shock!!! (not) Jerry Brown is a card carrying communist

[Redwood71]

Amazing! The flower children of the Bay Area, the anti-war liberals that smoked pot, used LSD, danced in the streets and and called for "love not war." These same people that burned their draft card and did everything they could to get us out to include our ex-president who left his draft notice on the counter and went to England to openly protest this action to free the people of South Vietnam, now want to recognize the country they didn't give a sh** about in the 60's and didn't care that it's people were being killed and tortured? I had friends die next to me over there, and I came back on a stretcher. May you worthless animals rot in H***!

[CaptRon]

"official flag of the Vietnamese community of Oakland," to be flown on city property and at city-sponsored events

Can such a policy (I presume other flags are flown too) do anything but divide that city? We already have a flag.