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I posted a photo of this last year as it's right down the street I live on.
Do you think they should make him take it down?
Trophy Club homeowner's Obama flag sparks debate
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:20:10 CDT
TROPHY CLUB - What one woman's child saw under an American flag has now set off a city debate.
Flying underneath the American flag in front of the home of one Trophy Club home is another flag that reads "OBAMA SUCKS."
Kay Humbert first saw the flag as she walked the neighborhood with her 6-year-old daughter. ???We've chosen to live here and I don't choose that as a part of my child's reading," Humbert said. The mother said she felt offended by the flag, and said she politely confronted the homeowners. "I think we're teaching the kids up front that foul language is just fine, especially to display it," she said.
Chuck Swartz said he felt compelled to fly the flag out of frustration with the President Barack Obama administration. He's worried about the national debt that has hit $14.5 trillion. ???It's become a mainstream word," he said. "As soon as that child goes to school, she's going to hear that word virtually every day." Swartz said he travels for a living and doesn't have time to attend anti-Obama protests. ???So, I felt that this was an appropriate method to get my message across," he said.
While Trophy Club city leaders also felt the flag is inappropriate, the city attorney told them it is protected by free speech. "Are we gong to just keep spewing anger all the time so I can put a banner up?" Humbert said. "My neighbors can put a banner up. We're just going to have a freedom of speech thing going like a volley, but where does it stop?" Swartz said he won't take the flag down until Obama is out of office. ???I don't want to come across as some kind of raving lunatic out here on the corner with my flag," he said. "I'm just expressing opinion" Swartz said only two people complained compared to hundreds who voiced their support.
Do you think they should make him take it down?
Trophy Club homeowner's Obama flag sparks debate
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:20:10 CDT
TROPHY CLUB - What one woman's child saw under an American flag has now set off a city debate.
Flying underneath the American flag in front of the home of one Trophy Club home is another flag that reads "OBAMA SUCKS."
Kay Humbert first saw the flag as she walked the neighborhood with her 6-year-old daughter. ???We've chosen to live here and I don't choose that as a part of my child's reading," Humbert said. The mother said she felt offended by the flag, and said she politely confronted the homeowners. "I think we're teaching the kids up front that foul language is just fine, especially to display it," she said.
Chuck Swartz said he felt compelled to fly the flag out of frustration with the President Barack Obama administration. He's worried about the national debt that has hit $14.5 trillion. ???It's become a mainstream word," he said. "As soon as that child goes to school, she's going to hear that word virtually every day." Swartz said he travels for a living and doesn't have time to attend anti-Obama protests. ???So, I felt that this was an appropriate method to get my message across," he said.
While Trophy Club city leaders also felt the flag is inappropriate, the city attorney told them it is protected by free speech. "Are we gong to just keep spewing anger all the time so I can put a banner up?" Humbert said. "My neighbors can put a banner up. We're just going to have a freedom of speech thing going like a volley, but where does it stop?" Swartz said he won't take the flag down until Obama is out of office. ???I don't want to come across as some kind of raving lunatic out here on the corner with my flag," he said. "I'm just expressing opinion" Swartz said only two people complained compared to hundreds who voiced their support.
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But aren't you at war? Support and respect the office? Surely this is treason no?
There are three people on Texas Death Row just for having "Bush Sucks" bumper stickers.
Um, no, and the mother should teach her little darling another new word, "asshole" as in " our neighbor in the Trophy Club (whatever in the fuck that is) is an asshole."
Whole lotta stupid going around in that story.
Not so much.
"Trophy Club" is a really weird name for a town.
Who is this they of which you speak?
How would they make them take it down?
She'll hear a lot of words, that doesn't mean she should learn them from him.
Having said that, unless this in some kind of private community that has its own set of bylaws, gots to let it fly. 1st Amendment, and that.
Also, this has the makings of becoming a real-life "Butter-battle Book" situation.
If I had a flagpole I'd do this.
Trophy Club is indeed a weird name for a town....it was literally built around a golf course designed by Byron Nelson.....I don't play golf.
Some of my neighbors are Martina Navratilova, Dobbs from "F Troop" and a few local pro athletes.....as pretentious as that sounds we don't have one of those Home Owners Associations which would almost certainly make Mr. Swartz take down his flag.
Personally I believe that we should show respect to our President, whomever he/she is, and I find the flag tasteless and ignorant.....but I support his right to be tasteless and ignorant.
And to LW....almost every town/city/municipality have laws that they can enforce regarding the appearance of the exteriror of your home and what they determine is "unsightly". This can range from the length of your grass, how many cars you park on your property to what color you paint your home. Recently in a nearby town a homeowner was forced to remove an American flag because it was too large and the flagpole was too tall.
That's what I thought until I drove through White Settlement.
That's MY kind of hope and change.
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That's a good point. Wasn't there a story/movie about a similar sort of thing, where a guy doesn't want to put up the elaborate Xmas display that his whole neighborhood does, and his neighbors harass and pressure him into doing it?
True that.
If the pole or flag placement or size violates city codes, then a complaint about the size or placement can be made. If it is clear that the reason the code is being enforced is to stifle free political speech then it is time for the aclu to step in. In some cases the aclu might want to argue that free political speech trumps city codes.
I'm thinking of what a kid might read on a bumper sticker.
Stuff a lot more obscene and hateful than that ugly flag.
Does overprotective mom have any allies in her fight against her neighbor, or is she the lone voice of outrage?
that'll learn 'em.
I was walking around Old Town Monrovia and there were two (I'm assuming) college-aged kids who had set up an information/propaganda table for this guy Lyndon LaRouche
http://www.larouchepac.com/
They had three of these posters up (this picture is on his website too)
Usually when I see people pushing politics or politicians out on the street I just keep walking, but this was just too putrid to let slide. I don't care what your feelings are about Obama as a president, there is no realistic parallel between any of his actions and the organized genocide helmed by Adolf Hitler
I took the pamphlet they handed me and threw it in the garbage when I got around the corner.