Political Correctness: God Forbid Anyone Be Offended
ALBANY, Ore. - At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments - but residents have been told they can’t fly any flags at all.
Jim Clausen flies the American flag from the back of his motorcycle. He has a son in the military heading back to Iraq, and the flag - he said - is his way of showing support.
“This flag stands for all those people,” said Clausen, an Oaks Apartment resident. “It stands for the people that can no longer stand - who died in wars. That’s why I fly this flag.”
But to Oaks Apartment management, Clausen said, the American flag symbolizes problems.
He was told to remove the red, white and blue from both of his rides, or face eviction.
“It floored me,” he said. “I can’t believe she was saying what she was saying.”
Even long-time residents like Sharron White, who has flown a flag on her car for eight years, has been told to take it down.
White said management told her that “someone might get offended.”
“I just said to her ‘They’ll just have to get over it,’” White said.
Resident we talked to who had been approached to take down their flags all told us the same thing: that management told them the flags could be offensive because they live in a diverse community.
Attempts to find out for ourselves why management would ban flags were unsuccessful. KATU wanted to talk to management at Oaks Apartments, but no one has returned our calls. The woman we were told had made the decision said she was “not going to answer any questions.”
National Guard signThe mother of one soldier fighting in Iraq put up a poster in her son’s apartment window when she learned of the ban. Her son’s roommate said he’ll risk eviction to make sure it stays.
Another Oaks Apartment resident, Judith Sherer, doesn’t have a car. Instead she carries an American flag around the complex to protest the ban, and wonders if the flag pin she wears is next to be “singled out.”
“If I put it on and I walk outside, what’s going to happen?” Sherer muses. “Am I going to be confronted by a manager about this?”
We’re told the ban includes sports flags and even flag stickers on cars.
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What’s next? Removing the flag from all public buildings, and seeing no American flag in site, because some people are too “sensitive” to seeing the American flag fly? What friggin country is this? Mexico? England? Canada? Or THE UNITED STATES?
If a landlord told me I had to take down an American flag, I’d be more than happy to move and I’d make him evict me, while explaining to a new landlord why I was being evicted and that I was standing up for my country. Why would I want to give my rent money, that is paid on time every month, to someone who is UNAMERICAN? Especially in this economy. Obviously this property doesn’t need renters as I’m sure their occupancy stats are going to soon plummet.
Who wants to live in a “touchey, feeley” apartment complex anywhere, where you can’t fly OUR COUNTRY’S FLAG? I bet however, there are Obama bumperstickers everywhere in that complex.
Obviously this apartment complex doesn’t know about Public Law 109-243, passed by the 109th Congress in 2006.:
SEC. 3. RIGHT TO DISPLAY THE FLAG OF THE UNITED
STATES.
A condominium association, cooperative association, or residential
real estate management association may not adopt or enforce any policy,
or enter into any agreement, that would restrict or prevent a member of
the association from displaying the flag of the United States on
residential property within the association with respect to which such
member has a separate ownership interest or a right to exclusive
possession or use.
By all means, call their attention to it.
One method to do so would be to contact city, county, and state officials in order to recommend they remind them.
If there is no stipulation in a signed lease they can’t make you stop flying the flag.
Assholes in my home owners association tried that. They even had a bunch of people walking around trying to get people to sign a petition that banned flying the U.S. Flag. Didn’t work. Long story short…when the bastards come by my house they won’t be stopping to ask me to sign their fucking petitions at the risk of having the petition, clip board and accessories shoved up their sorry asses.
Anyone who is offended has come to the wrong country. And, they are not obligated to stay here. It’s called freedom … they are free to leave.
They can have my flag when they take it from my cold dead hands.
There is no way I will ever remove my flag from my front yard or from my vehicles. As ODIN2012 says:
Come and get my flag you enemies of America! You can have it when you pry it from the cold dead fingers of my hand!
Oh…and by the way…you’ll have to get past my M4, my duty side arm, and my back up and if you make it that far then you can face my blade.
So…come get’er. I’m a waitin!
We don’t have to worry about fighting the libtards, the sight of a gun would make them shit their pants then pass out. The only power the libtard has is the media and the courts SCREW THE MEDIA AND THE COURTS!