U.N. flag ordered down

Jamaica Plain Gazette | November 30, 2001 | Fabiana Montoya Scanlan

[Little Bill]

One, as we have seen from the last few years they all play from the same script. One call and the programming kicks in and because they can't do math one becomes a lot.

To be a liberal socalist means you do not have to think.

[abner]

All I really did was make an anonymous phone call from a pay phone with a voice digitizer. You don't know which agency they'll sic on you if they know who the cussing, swearing, "uncomfortable" people are.

Duly noted.

& Laughing a lot!

[Howlin]

Good for you! As I was reading this, I was thinking, "AT LAST, they are listening to US!!!"

[Brownie74]

"I thought [flying the UN flag] was a great idea said Mary Hines, spokesperson for the Parks department.

Thats what you get for thinking you big dummy!!

[ladyjane]

Good job ElectricStrawberry. Massachusetts may be difficult in some ways but you have that beautiful Jamaica Pond to walk around and the little skating house with a roaring fire and hot chocolate in the winter. AND no UN flag flying above!

[Faraday]

Now the flag has found a new home inside the First Church Unitarian Universalist of Jamaica Plain.

Now, if someone burned that flag and the church caught on fire, would that freedom of expression or arson?

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Fools

[Faraday]

Now the flag has found a new home inside the First Church Unitarian Universalist of Jamaica Plain.

Now, if someone burned that flag and the church caught on fire, would that be freedom of expression or arson?

Sorry.

[kennyo]

Who gives a damn about their flippin' flag?Get the UN and ALL it's trapings off of US soil!

[freekitty]

Good for you. The UN playing a key role? Nah...They are just butting in; as usual.

[MadHatter3175]

Excellent post!

Now if I wanted to go out in public and burn a U.N. flag in protest, would I need some kind of permit? Or do the laws differ from state to state? I seriously asking here because I don't know and happened to acquire a U.N. flag I'd like to light up in public.

[piasa]

It would be a city fire code you'd have to check... maybe a protest permit is needed too if you are going to be on public property, like a sidewalk or street, with a large number of people that could block traffic or such. Outside of city limits, it might be under county regs, if anyone would care at all.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

That flag is very dangerous especially at Jamacia Pond. The Jamacia Way is a narrow curvey four lane road which has claimed many lives over the years. It runs by the Pond. Anyone catching the UN Flag out of the corner of their eye could easily get distracted, especially a non liberal. If you don't die in a head on collision, you just might plough into one of the hundreds of massive trees at the edge of the road.

Its removal is just not a political cause, it's a matter of personal safety. Get it off that Unitarian Universalist church as well for the same reasons. Sue them as a safety hazard.

[smoking camels]

Shucks, I went over there and posted 3 posts that AGREED with them and they still banned me in 30 minutes! I guess it may have been the fact that I was a wee bit over kill that gave me away! LOL. Reregistered and asked why. Got banned in 12 minutes that time! LOL.

I now stay away. You become the sum totla of what you input into your mind. Dissenting opinion is fine but their stuff is filth and garbage. I do not have the personal strength to feast on their trash and stay positive and happy. So I stay away.

[RobbyS]

Flag burning has something to recommend it. But that, probably, would be taken as breaking the law.

[smoking camels]

sorry. got my threads mixed up...BADLY I think!

Here is what I meant to say to Madhatter...

Just a tip. Invite all the media. Make an event out of it. Study how the other guys get the airtime and copy their tactics...to a point of course. let the media know it will be a Afghan relateed protest maybe. Guerilla warfare pal.

read "Guerilla marketing". It will give you ideas for this and for life. I personally enjoy quiet activism. I got stopped recently by a jerk of a cop. I called his super and complained. BUT, 2 years ago I got stopped by a very nice and professional cop. Got a ticket. I called his super and complimented.

I believe positive reinforcemnet is as important as complaining. We will win because we seek truth and good and right for all.

Sunday sermon over folks...good bye! LOL

[BrucefromMtVernon]

I did a college paper on Unitarian-Universalism. What a fundamentally dishonest bunch of whackjobs, those dancing and prancing Unitarians.

[Little Bill]

These hacks are afraid of public opinion, if you make enough noise they head for the shadows. This has been proven time and time again. You have to watch them though they have a tendancy to be sneaky, never turn your back.

[ElectricStrawberry]

It just so happens that the front page picture in the same Gazette is of a protest at the corner of Pond St. and the Jamaicaway.

It just so happens that the flag appeared at that intersection on October 24th.

It just so happens that this intersection has a constantly changing stop light for pedestrians.

It just so happens that within ONE WEEK of the U.N. flag raising an 80-year-old Jamaica Plain resident was tragicly killed by a car travelling 30 MPH on this road.

I wanna know if the woman was crossing against the light or if the driver was too busy looking at the U.N. flag to pay attention to the situation?

If the latter, how many more innocent people must die because of a foreign flag? I know I only saw it because I was riding by on my motorcycle. I almost blew the red light myself in my anger.

Remember ignorant drivers don't kill pedestrians, people who fly obnoxious flags at dangerous intersections kill pedestrians.