President Obama's face in place of stars on an American flag flying at Lake County Democratic Headquarters in Tavares irked a group of veterans on Tuesday, who found themselves engaged in a verbal confrontation and the threat of police action when they requested the flag be taken down.
The matter was resolved peacefully when Democratic party officials removed the flag.
The Obama flag had been flowing for two months underneath an American flag before it was noticed by the veterans, who argued that it was a desecration of the flag and in violation of three codes passed by Congress about displaying the American flag
Just to make it perfectly clear, the "threat of police action" was a threat against the veterans by the local Democrat party hacks.
Van Beck gave Hurlbert a POW-MIA flag to be installed in place of the Obama flag and offered for the veterans to put it up. Once again Hurlbert reminded Van Beck that he and the other veterans were on private property and if they touched the flag, she would call police.
Hmm. She wasn't calling it a "flag like banner". Of course, ever since I posted the picture of the guy (of indeterminate race) flying the Flag of the Obama Nation over his house, the peanut gallery of troll-like liberals have been strangely silent on the matter.
Another account had this to say:
Tempers are flaring over a version of the American flag flying in Lake County. A veterans group says the flag is an outrage. The flag, which features a picture of President Obama, was taken down Tuesday afternoon. Korean war veteran Don Van Beck said his blood was boiling.The vets are calling it a desecration of the flag. And both parties refer to the object in question as a "flag". No one is using weasel words to try to slither away from the real issues. Speaking of "real", I'm getting a real sense of Déjà vu.
"I can't describe how upset I was because you just don't do that to the American flag," Van Beck said.
You can read more on this here, here and here.
Cross posted at Say Anything
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