Love it or leave it!

[olde_fashioned]

Wow, patriotism is a sin?

I wonder if the Founding Fathers ever thought they should have protected our right to display an American flag by putting it into writing.

Any bets that no one would have dared complain if this woman had decided to hang a gay rights flag instead of the always-evil and ever-dreaded American flag? It's such a symbol of tyranny and opression wherever you go!

I humbly submit that if having an American flag offends you so much, you go back to wherever you came from, or take the first flight out of the US.

What next?

Nevermind, I don't think I want to know. *headhands*

Woman Upset After American Flag Taken Down At Work

MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News)


Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.

McLucas' husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, "I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing."

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.

"The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor," McLucas said. But McLucas also said hospital higher-ups had told her some patients' families and visitors had also complained.

"I was told it wouldn't matter if it was only one person," she said. "It would have to come down."

McLucas said hospital bosses told her as far as patriotism was concerned, the flag flying outside the hospital building would have to suffice.

"I find it very frightening because if I can't display my flag," McLucas asked, "whatother freedoms will I lose before all is said and done?"

Read the rest of the story HERE.

Comments

[epea-pteroenta.livejournal.com]

It seems like a story blown out of proportion by the media to get cheap attention on the ever popular issue of patriotism.

The issue seems to be the flag's size. Whether or not patriotism has anything to do with the actual issue seems to be a moot point. It is impossible to tell from a newspaper article what exactly the hospital said to the woman. Obviously they have been forced to apologise, but I can't help feeling that it is likely they were merely enforcing hospital policy about what is appropriate to display. A 3ft by 5ft flag is pretty large... And this then got misinterpreted. Of course I don't know this... but I don't feel inclined to get worked up about it.

I know I'm not American, so perhaps I can't judge properly (or perhaps shouldn't even attempt to do so) but I do know that if this same news report was found in Britain, I would feel pretty certain that the whole thing was blown out of proportion in order to get a knee jerk reaction and had very little to do with the original situation.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Size? Her flag was on a pole. So unless she sprayed her flag with amazing quantities of hairspray or starch to make it stick straight out, I hardly think that size WAS the actual problem.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Hairspray, hahaha! Hairspray. *giggles*

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

How can someone be offended by an item's size? If size was truly the issue, there never would have been any talk of offense. IMO that's just the excuse they conjured up to cover themselves.

I don't know how much like our media your press is, but I'll bet they're about as bad. And yes, they blow things out of proportion here all the time, but not usually things like this which should outrage true American citizens.

[princessjune.livejournal.com]

I get your point but as ceallaighgirl stated :

Size? Her flag was on a pole. So unless she sprayed her flag with amazing quantities of hairspray or starch to make it stick straight out, I hardly think that size WAS the actual problem.

The woman who reported the flag was African, and she stated that she found the flag "offensive". Now imagine for instance that an African person hung a flag of Africa in their office and an American or British person that lives and works in Africa complained and said they found the African flag offensive... How do you think Africans would react? What do you think would happen to the American or British person?

They'd most likely be shot or called a rascist...

The woman who complained is also ignorant, by saying the American flag is offensive when she lives and works in the US and is able to prosper here... She is insulting the *African American's* who fought and died in the Colonial War, The Civil War, World War I & II, Vietnam, Desert Storm, September 11th, and those that died in Afghanistan & Iraq to keep this country free and safe from terrorists.

[princessjune.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot, she is also insulting Martin Luther King & other *African American's* who marched and risked their lives during the "African-American civil rights movement" so that people of color could have equal rights and be able to work where they wished to work and prosper in the United States.

If it hadn't been for them, I doubt that she would ever be able to come here and have the job that she has and the rights that she has and I doubt that she'd even survive going out the building if she said she found the American flag offensive if things were still the same way they were back then...

That woman is a filthy hypocrite.