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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Housing authority resident told to remove American flag

Posted: 7/22/2008 4:15:37 AM EDT

bangornews.com/news/t/city.aspx?articleid=167419&zoneid=176

Posted: 7/22/2008 4:53:10 AM EDT

[#1]

Meh, it sounds more like an apartment rule of no attached flags...

Coffey said she’s not against displaying the U.S. flag and will work with Brazeau to come to some sort of compromise. Several residents at Autumn Park West have small U.S. flags flying from their porches, but none are on poles attached by brackets.

"If somebody wants to put a flag on a pole on their patio I would be more than happy for them to do it," Coffey said. "Rest assured, we’re not telling him he cannot fly his flag."

On Monday, he tied a large U.S. flag to his porch railing, he said, in an attempt to get around the apartment’s rules.

"I don’t know what they’re going to say about that," Brazeau said. "But it’s our constitutional right to fly the flag."

lol, show me where in the constitution is says that... since its not his property (he's renting), he doesn't have that right... I don't have the right to stick flags on other's property.

Posted: 7/22/2008 4:59:37 AM EDT

[#2]

I was just going to post the same quote. They told him he could hang the flag other ways yet he still went to the newspaper to bitch? And why did he think it important to tell the newspaper he's an indian?

Posted: 7/22/2008 5:00:17 AM EDT

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Quoted:
Meh, it sounds more like an apartment rule of no attached flags...

Coffey said she’s not against displaying the U.S. flag and will work with Brazeau to come to some sort of compromise. Several residents at Autumn Park West have small U.S. flags flying from their porches, but none are on poles attached by brackets.

"If somebody wants to put a flag on a pole on their patio I would be more than happy for them to do it," Coffey said. "Rest assured, we’re not telling him he cannot fly his flag."

On Monday, he tied a large U.S. flag to his porch railing, he said, in an attempt to get around the apartment’s rules.

"I don’t know what they’re going to say about that," Brazeau said. "But it’s our constitutional right to fly the flag."

lol, show me where in the constitution is says that... since its not his property (he's renting), he doesn't have that right... I don't have the right to stick flags on other's property.

1st Ammendment; however the building's owner can prevent him from attaching a bracket with a flagpole to their building.

Which is why they'll work out a reasonable accomodation with him.

Posted: 7/22/2008 5:01:46 AM EDT

[#4]

This is exactly why I don't fly flags.

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