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Originally Posted by ktucker
I can understand Mrs. Farnell's desire to display the flag, and I can also understand the association's desire not to have the patchwork look of flags or banners or other decorations randomly displayed on various condos. It's too bad Mrs. Farnell and the board couldn't have worked together to have one large flagpole and flag erected somewhere in the common area of the complex for all to respect and enjoy.
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Dear Ktucker.
Although to consider you're point, as a defender of our flag, we the people will decide when and where Our American Flag will be displayed.
( in other words ), Look under the hood.
Always and include the American flag that my and our very forefather's fought for. It in no way is something that you, or anyone else ( has more right to than what we stand for ). Amazing how Some among continue to try to thwart progress here! My hope is that The dark ages are gone ( and yet by some try to reinvent the wheel ) so to speak.
Very thankfully our views have moved on to a more modern than prehistoric, and on to a more advanced stage, from the there, ( did I say that ), age from where we all came from.
A reminder to all,
What does this mean in plain language? It means you have the right to fly the American flag within your space in a condominium or any development with a homeowners association and the association can’t stop you. If the association has a rule that appears to prohibit display of the flag of the United States, a court will either interpret the rule in such a way as to allow the homeowner to display the flag or strike down the rule.
Since a homeowners association may not apply rules in an arbitrary and capricious manner, a homeowners association could have felt that if they allowed people to fly the American flag, they would have had to allow people to display banners for sports teams and other banner and signs. While an association could have, (and should have), allowed American flags without allowing banners for sports teams before this new law, California Civil Code Section 1353.5 clears up any confusion. We have to remember that the people who run our homeowners associations are volunteers who often have very limited legal knowledge and unfortunately lawyers who are usually paid by the hour have a financial incentive to make legal matters seem more complicated and encourage litigation.
Also, re read my post # 31 in this thread...
Absolutely Ludicro'US, In Our Own Country...
Any condo group's ( and or any other group ) that would try in any way to disallow the display of our American Flag, needs to be brought before a Military Court and a' mediately deported. Put them directly on frontline, to delouse, tick and flea them.
One of my very first projects at the camp, back in 1992 was to restore an old rusted flagpole that took some work with an oxyacetylene torch to take apart, repair, paint and restore. The camp was high on a hill up and just off Paugus Bay, and there was always a pleasant breeze, enough in fact to ware out some O'L Glories, but none were lost to us old faithfuls!
MyFamily has a very long and prestigious history of defending our Country, and in fact goes back to the Revolutionary War.
Now, ( Under unclassified info ), I was approached by the Army at 17 years old to visit a Local National Guard seminar being held in East Bridgewater Ma. at the time. During this seminar, there was an Army Commander General , and I got to speak words with him, and also, he was a ( less than what I would put my trust in, at the time ), and I left that conversation telling him to draft me.
So, low and behold when I turned twenty, I got an official notice to report to Boston for induction ceremonies that put me into the United States Army.
I was so proud to get to serve our Country. We were all stuffed on ( an very overloaded Super four reciprocal engine powered Constellation aircraft, and we were running out of runway, when suddenly the right wing caught fire, and eventually it blew out. I think that the pilot was more headstrong in delivering us to Fort Dix NJ for BOOTCamp!
Yes, and even today, it ain't what Y'All read in the news papers!
So, I successfully graduated from Boot-camp, got orders to go to Fort Gordon Georgia for AIT ( Advanced Individual Training ) and I had my mind made up that I was going to Vietnam to fight for our very own butt's.
By the time I graduated from AIT, I found myself in the Signal Corps, and received Orders to go directly to Germany where I was and appointed to an isolated radio relay site on the East Boarder there where and we got to lookout and see every day, the Russian missiles pointed directly at US. Now let me splain, even though we used what they call ( line of sight antennas ) back in them days, it was an every day Tums or pepto'abismal day for Us, as they could find and lock on to our signal. We were well aware that we had less than a machine gunner's life expectancy on the front line of any war, should the _ _ _ _ hit the fan. Less than 6 seconds, should anyone want to do the math.
Terry
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