Apartment orders US Flags taken down. "symbolizes problems"

[Boilers]

Apartment residents told to take down U.S. flags | KATU.com - News, Weather and Sports - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional

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."

The 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.

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

Screw that. This is America, get used to it. It irritates me when people get all in a bunch about the American flag being flown. It's a symbol of what we stand for and those who died to give us our freedom.

 

[MyGlockRocks19]

Somehow I don't think it would be legal to evict someone for flying an American flag on their car. I could be wrong, but man I sure hope not....that'd be ridiculous.

 

[jclark]

How stupid.....if people get offended by this country's flag, then they should leave.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Wonder if these good citizens can handle this the American way?
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With a lawsuit against the landlords.


And I betcha thought I was going to imply they use their 2A rights, didn't ya.

 

[Boilers]

I was thinking
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[tv1217]

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[Bigum1969]

I'd simply tell management to eat and

 

[tv1217]

Eat caca and faint?

 

[mrjarrell]

Like it or not, it's private property and the owners get to set the rules. Doesn't matter how we might feel about it. The best thing the people can do is vote with their wallets.

 

[wtfd661]

What a load of bull, to bad every American in that Apt. building couldn't just move out and tell management to shove sand up their :moon:.

 

[redneckmedic]

I thought flying the colors was protected by the first AMEN?

I know that they can regulate how large it is, but flag stickers on cars??? I don't think so! :fawk:

 

[Benny]

Wait, what?

Is this for real?



You can be evicted, while living in America, for flying an American flag?

Wow...I have nothing else to say, but...Wow.

 

[Mgderf]

How many apartments are in this complex?

Wonder how hard it would be to get together enough American flags for EVERY LAST CAR IN THAT COMPLEX, and send them to them!

 

[MyGlockRocks19]

I seriously doubt they could actually DO it, at least not without some fairly serious legal repercussions. If it was me, I'd let 'em evict me....and I'd be on the phone with a lawyer within 15 minutes.

 

[Prometheus]

Like it or not, it's private property and the owners get to set the rules. Doesn't matter how we might feel about it. The best thing the people can do is vote with their wallets.

Bingo. Plenty of desperate apartment complexes looking for decent renters.

Instead people get stuck on stupid wanting to support anti-American businesses.

 

[Joe Williams]

Like it or not, it's private property and the owners get to set the rules. Doesn't matter how we might feel about it. The best thing the people can do is vote with their wallets.

Not if it's not in the lease, they can't. Within the terms of the lease, that apartment is the tenant's property.

And so are their cars and motorcycles.

 

[printcraft]

Eat caca and faint?

No, it's eat caca and die!



I would tell them to kiss the fattest part of my

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[henktermaat]

I'm going to pretend to be Jack Ryan here and say the SOB deserves eviction for purposefully throwing his American beliefs and blatant patriotism in the face of the management when he knows full well it's not welcome.

 

[JByer323]

**** it then, take the flag down, and raise a Gadsen.

There is something terribly wrong with this country.