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Flying a flag in Portland.  Having a clothes-line in the back-yard now illegal in Canton, Ohio and now this.

What's next? We can only paint our houses a certain color?      All of our indiviual rights are being systemactically taking away.

Someone else owns the locker.  If the owner tells you to remove all stickers, you do it.

Do the people in question have flag stickers on their cars, refrigerators and house windows?  Probably not.

Show all the patriotism you want, on your own belongings. 

I have a flag on my car and I feel it is a way of showing that I love my country even with all its short falls. If you don’t love it then the door is always open any time you want to leave, don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

Lobster wrote on Oct 20^th, 2009 at 1:58pm:


Let's see here.  How about putting it up to a public vote then?  Since they are firefighters and firefighters are considered to be public servants, then msot likely those lockers are owned by the public who paid for them with their taxes. 

As an aside, the flag is on their unifroms, the flag is flown at the station, should that be removed too if somebody protests?

Good lord!! Madelin O'Hare is one happy camper in hell today... That bitch started all this back when she "thought" praying in schools was not a good thing and WE let her get HER way... Things have been going to hell ever since.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it, but when you work for someone, ya gotta follow their rules or go to work for yourself and set your own rules. That's just business.  And if it's in the policy manual.... the only way to change that is to go to the city council and protest and get it changed. But until then - it's the rules...

The house we owned from 1998-2008 in Madison, WI had a covenent with the subdivision.  We could not have clotheslines in our backyards.  We couldnt build anything onto or put up a lean to on our property without it first being approved by the subdivision.  My backyard neighbor was forced out because he put up a ugly depcrepid wooden leanto for his dogs to get in and out of the back patio door.  It was a wood frame proped up with a tarp over it so the dogs could come and go.  We couldn't park cars in our driveways overnight or have campers or trailers or boats parked in our driveway.  Which reminds me my backyard neighbor had a boat parked all the time in his driveway.  I thought the whole thing was ok with me as far as my property goes.  I had no objections but my neighbors shur pitched a fit with my backyard neighbor until he had to sell to find peace.

What you guys are referring to here is a planned community with an "association"   where you actually pay a yearly fee so they can tell you what kind of curtains can be hung in your windows or where you can park your car.  Anyone who buys a house in this kind community KNOWS upfront about the rules and assumes responsibility for adhering to them or he buys a house in a normal neighborhood.

When living in a normal neighborhood one shouldn't be at the mercy of....like Mel said...one or two malcontents on a power trip who spoil it for the rest.

As for the 11-yr. veteran fire-fighter with the flag,  I'll bet almost anything he put that up there after 9-11 and no one said anything til now..for whatever their reasoning might be.  I understand that the locker is not his property...but what a nit-picky thing to do that sends a horrid message.

I'm sure that little bitty flag decal was just messing up the whole departments cohesion something fierce.