MORE OF THESE DEPRESSING ANTI-FLAG STORIES
With every day that passes we get more stories of the anti-US Flat nitwits out there gnashing their teeth and wringing their hands over the feelings of foreign students.
This time it happened at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. The head of library services at that school stopped displays of the American flag by employees. Said that it might be “offensive” to some foreign students.
A story two days ago from California. Quotes from people who starting to be “bothered” by the sight of too many American flags.
Lehigh University in Pennsylvania last week. A student affairs dean orders an American Flag removed from a university shuttle bus
School system in Pasadena, Texas sending children home with American Flags on their t-shirts. “Inappropriate attire.”
NCCI Holdings, Inc., an Insurance company in Boca Raton, Florida prohibiting the display of American Flags. Says it may be offensive to some workers.
Two Black Muslim firemen stationed in Opa-Locka, Florida, refused to ride on a fire engine decorated with the Stars and Stripes. Hundreds of angry people have called the city. The two firemen are now on scheduled vacations--and the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Director has ordered that county fire engines display the American flag as a tribute to the New York firefighters killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092001noflag.story
Residents at Sahuaro Hall, a dormitory on the campus of Arizona State University, posted American flags throughout their hall and printed fliers showing the World Trade Center and the caption, "Remember." But Sodexho Marriott, which runs the Sahuaro Market, took down a flag one of the residents had posted in the market. Some students say Sodhexo Marriott is afraid of offending international students. Sodhexo Marriott says students need to obtain permission before posting anything in the market.
http://www.statepress.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=95171
An employee of John Elway Ford in Boulder, Colorado, arrived at work Friday afternoon wearing an American flag bandana tied around his head. The manager told the employee that the bandana was "unprofessional" and violated the dealership's dress code. He told the employee he could wear the bandana all day if he wanted...at home. http://www.bouldernews.com/news/local/15lflag.html
New York's Cablevision Corporation, the owner of Cable News Channel 12, has
banned the American flag from its news programming. On-air displays of the flag are prohibited. News 12 news director Pat Dolan said he became concerned when American flags started showing up in his newsroom. And his news anchors started wearing flag lapel pins. Dolan says he doesn't want to give "a false impression that we lean one way or the other" or give the impression that "we may subtly endorse what the government is doing."
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/9/19/114214
Just what is going on here? Suddenly it’s politically correct to go out of your way to protect people from becoming offended by the sight of an American Flag! Look, I have no problem with letting law-abiding foreigners attend our colleges and universities – at their expense. The idea, though, that they should be shielded from the sight of an American Flag while attending school in America is an absurdity of stupendous measure.
I would be ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with Florida Gulf Coast University at this time. The library services director has now issued an apology which you can read at http://www.fgcu.edu/PressReleases/09-19-01statement.html OK, that’s fine. But how many of you think that this apology is genuine? That apology, as well as the apologies issued by the CEO of NCCI in Boca Raton and that student dean at Lehigh are apologies driven by public outrage, not by genuine feelings of remorse.
America has fought wars before – but not even during the Viet Nam War do I remember such animosity being shown toward the American Flag.
With every day that passes we get more stories of the anti-US Flat nitwits out there gnashing their teeth and wringing their hands over the feelings of foreign students.
This time it happened at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. The head of library services at that school stopped displays of the American flag by employees. Said that it might be “offensive” to some foreign students.
A story two days ago from California. Quotes from people who starting to be “bothered” by the sight of too many American flags.
Lehigh University in Pennsylvania last week. A student affairs dean orders an American Flag removed from a university shuttle bus
School system in Pasadena, Texas sending children home with American Flags on their t-shirts. “Inappropriate attire.”
NCCI Holdings, Inc., an Insurance company in Boca Raton, Florida prohibiting the display of American Flags. Says it may be offensive to some workers.
Two Black Muslim firemen stationed in Opa-Locka, Florida, refused to ride on a fire engine decorated with the Stars and Stripes. Hundreds of angry people have called the city. The two firemen are now on scheduled vacations--and the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Director has ordered that county fire engines display the American flag as a tribute to the New York firefighters killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092001noflag.story
Residents at Sahuaro Hall, a dormitory on the campus of Arizona State University, posted American flags throughout their hall and printed fliers showing the World Trade Center and the caption, "Remember." But Sodexho Marriott, which runs the Sahuaro Market, took down a flag one of the residents had posted in the market. Some students say Sodhexo Marriott is afraid of offending international students. Sodhexo Marriott says students need to obtain permission before posting anything in the market.
http://www.statepress.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=95171
An employee of John Elway Ford in Boulder, Colorado, arrived at work Friday afternoon wearing an American flag bandana tied around his head. The manager told the employee that the bandana was "unprofessional" and violated the dealership's dress code. He told the employee he could wear the bandana all day if he wanted...at home. http://www.bouldernews.com/news/local/15lflag.html
New York's Cablevision Corporation, the owner of Cable News Channel 12, has
banned the American flag from its news programming. On-air displays of the flag are prohibited. News 12 news director Pat Dolan said he became concerned when American flags started showing up in his newsroom. And his news anchors started wearing flag lapel pins. Dolan says he doesn't want to give "a false impression that we lean one way or the other" or give the impression that "we may subtly endorse what the government is doing."
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/9/19/114214
Just what is going on here? Suddenly it’s politically correct to go out of your way to protect people from becoming offended by the sight of an American Flag! Look, I have no problem with letting law-abiding foreigners attend our colleges and universities – at their expense. The idea, though, that they should be shielded from the sight of an American Flag while attending school in America is an absurdity of stupendous measure.
I would be ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with Florida Gulf Coast University at this time. The library services director has now issued an apology which you can read at http://www.fgcu.edu/PressReleases/09-19-01statement.html OK, that’s fine. But how many of you think that this apology is genuine? That apology, as well as the apologies issued by the CEO of NCCI in Boca Raton and that student dean at Lehigh are apologies driven by public outrage, not by genuine feelings of remorse.
America has fought wars before – but not even during the Viet Nam War do I remember such animosity being shown toward the American Flag.
