Posted on 07/01/2014 9:25:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's the very symbol of patriotism -- Old Glory, as William Driver, a 19th-century American sea captain, nicknamed it. But even as we close in on Independence Day, more and more people across the country are calling the American flag a threat and inappropriate home garnishing.
A week ago, the landlord of a Texas man called the American flag "a threat to the Muslim community" and ordered him to remove it from his home, according to KHOU-TV.
Duy Tran said the Stars and Stripes means a lot to him. Posting the flag was the least he could do, he said, especially in the light of his friends who died for this country.
Tran added: "What really stunned me is that she said it's a threat towards the Muslim community. I mean, I'm not a threat to (anybody)."
When KHOU-TV tried to confront the manager about the statement, she answered no questions, and the crew was escorted from the premises by a security officer with a note that read: "While the Lodge on El Dorado admires our resident's patriotism, we must enforce our property rules and guidelines. Such guidelines maintain the aesthetics of our apartment community and provide for the safety of all residents. The apartment community already proudly displays our country's flag in a safe and appropriate manner at the entrances to our community."
So even though Tran had hung his flag with proper etiquette from his balcony, it wasn't "safe and appropriate"? Are we now going to tell Americans that only one flag is allowed per 1,000 residents?
Tran rightly rejected that assault on his liberty, freedom and patriotism by saying, "I'm gonna leave my flag there, as an American, until she shows me proof that I don't have the right to leave my flag there."
That situation reminded me of another one that happened just last summer.
KOVR-TV reported that former Army Spc. Jen Elliot, who was a heavy-wheeled vehicle operator and a .50-caliber gunner in Afghanistan before being blown into a wall there and receiving a traumatic brain injury, came home to her California apartment only to find an official violation on her door from property management stating that she could no longer fly her American flag from her balcony.
Elliot explained to KOVR-TV that she flew the Stars and Stripes because it reminded her of her Army unit overseas, which had incidentally lost six soldiers in the previous three months. She explained that she was particularly "upset and very offended" by the notice of violation because it demanded that she take down the flag for which she and her fellow comrades fought and still fight.
Elliot said she would move out before she would take down her American flag. She added: "It's very important for me to have that up there. ... I'm not taking that flag down."
Am I missing something? Do you remember the days when Americans not only used to be proud to fly Old Glory but frowned upon neighbors who did not?
These travesties regarding flag flying wouldn't be so tragic if they weren't becoming so prevalent and symptomatic of an America moving away from its original mission and Founding Fathers' intent.
So for this July Fourth, I say we not only fly Old Glory proud and high but also remind our families, friends co-workers and neighbors exactly why we do.
I agree wholeheartedly with Elliot, who concluded: "We live in America. Why shouldn't we fly our flag proudly?"
And what about those who oppose Old Glory's posting?
Take your orders from Gen. Douglas MacArthur: "I see that the old flagpole still stands. Have our troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down."
Then don't hesitate for a moment to place your hand over your heart and say loudly and proudly for all to hear: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
If Barack Obama had his way, the American flag would be replaced by the gay rainbow flag.
Everybody in those apartment complexes and HOA areas should start flying a small Old Glory in an appropriate manner.
They can’t evict or foreclose on -everyone-
More and more I see how far down the road we are. The question is not ‘if’ but ‘when’.
Eff that arrogant pos
It is so hard to believe how far and how fast our country has fallen...
I’ll never get it why anyone would move into those HOA areas. No one, and I mean no one is going to tell me if I fly my American flag or not.
Freedom, equality, the pursuit of happiness. The landlord is right, it is a threat to the ROP.
That is so true, but I bet those idiots who claim that the flag would be a threat to Muslims are just speculating and that most Muslims would not object to the flag. If they do, they can just go back to where they came from and take these speculating morons with them
Would love to see Mr. Norris ask that HOA nazi to explain herself. And when she calls security, just stand there & look him quietly in the eye.
A muslim resident must have complained about the flag. Why else would she state them and no one else?.................
Our greatest weapon is our refusal to give in.
“No” is the most powerful word in ANY language.
When it comes to doing anything against OUR Flag, OUR Country, and OUR People, our answer should always be not just “no” but “HELL NO!”.
If the Red White and the Blue, They say simply won’t do..
Use the Yellow, Green, and Black to take up the Slack!
If Old Glory they do Take, Hoist up the Angry Rattle Snake!
“...A muslim resident must have complained about the flag...”
Then Maybe that “resident” should go back to whatever Third World hole it came from.
This is America. And we’ll fly OUR damned flag anywhere and anytime and for whatever reason we damned well please.
Sick of this PC crap.
Raise the Yellow flag we have been seeing more, Yellow Meaning “Caution, watch your step!”
These people are devout COMMUNISTS. Don't believe me? Compare the actions.
I've known these people and I know who a few of them are. They hide behind their
keyboards and promote their Communist hope for this country. Yes, transforming
America as Obama said, was directed to those Communists here in America.
They will cry McCarthyism but in fact what they are is what McCarthy was trying to
stop. They know full well who they are and what they represent which is why
they distract so fervently from what they fear, being fully discovered as traitors by Name.
Any approach that devolves America the Communists will latch onto including
the Homosexual movement, Globull Warming and the rest. Anything bad is Good.
Understand the logic, it's purposeful, What is Bad is Good, what is good is bad.
That my fellow Freepers is Communism in it's purest form of thought meant
to confuse and also distract to small issues, while the larger issues are
killing us from behind closed doors and Friday nights and Sundays when nobody
is paying attention.
They are killing the Constitution by Using the Constitution and ignorance.
They are dissolving our nation starting from the 5th grade.
And also, any small loss to them is Huge because they're smelling the blood in the ditches
and like wolves are worked into a frenzy for more, they want our destruction and they believe
that this is their time.
As Obama said, ""we are the ones we've been waiting for""
There is a story in Florida about a guy who put a little flag in a flower pot and the apartment manager or HOA or something wants it GONE, threatening court action and everything else. State law in Florida says the guy did nothing wrong but it doesn’t mean his life won’t be made miserable for a while.
The beautiful, blood bought emblem of Freedom, should be raised, and flown, for all the tyrants, Communists, Socialists, be they common Americans or elected fools, and Mohammedans, to tremble in it’s presence.
Free men, living as individuals, their own destiny decided by themselves, beholding to no one, answering only to their Deity, not some snotty corrupt fool in a town that is not even it’s own State or Country. Neither answering to king (or one who thinks he is), nor cleric of some outdated dinosaur belief, or any other system, that enslaved the human mind and heart. Free men, willing to die for this cause, to put every ounce of their being towards this idea.
Statists become dour at this thought. Communists and Socialists dream of snuffing out this candle lit. Mohammedans have no comprehension of the word, but make mockery of it, in their inbred insanity.
No, dear Americans, this candle cannot be snuffed, unless YOU allow it to be so.
I know my choice. What is your’s on this so-called Independence Day?
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