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Achtung - Flagge Verboten

By Boquisucio on November 4, 2011 | | Comments (6)
An old Navy Veteran went and hung an American Flag for Navy Day.  Next thing he knows, he gets a love letter from his local commissariat.



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By MikeD on November 4, 2011 8:12 AM
This is the kind of thing the apartment complex is completely stupid to fight.  One, do they have written records of the previous warnings, signed by the vet in question stating that he was warned not to do it again?  Probably not.  Do they have written policies in their rental agreements that residents can't do things like this?  Probably not.  So on the letter of law, they're on pretty shaky ground.  Yes, it's their property, but to evict him with no reasonable expectation of deserving it.

And then there's the bad publicity factor.  Even if the complex is completely in the right regarding their policies, they're GOING to get a black eye over this.  There is no way this works in their favor.  Much better to come to some kind of compromise or concession than let this become a public fight.
 
By htom on November 4, 2011 1:57 PM
They put in a permanent flag pole to appease the vets, and it didn't allow the flag to be lowered? Someone is not getting it. At all. Not even bright enough to be a 2LT.
 
By Quartermaster on November 4, 2011 3:10 PM
 Springfield, Oregon. The Willamette Valley is almost as insane as Berserkly, KA. The location alone says all I needed to know (I used to live in Albany a few miles north).

The aprtment manager might win as far as eviction is concerned, but they'll lose on every other front. Even in the Eugene/Springfield area.
 
By htom on November 4, 2011 5:36 PM
This might have been very recently resolved with a list of dates when it was permissible. Maybe it's come apart again.
 
By Grumpy on November 4, 2011 7:30 PM
 Let's just start out with a fact, this Veteran of the US Navy lived in a complex owned by someone else. But equally true, the apartment complex resided in a town, county and State within the boundaries of the United States of America. This Navy Veteran put his life on the line for the US, to be treated like this! I didn't think so. Now, an eviction is an action of the Court, but in this case what level? A Judge on any level could remand this case to the Veterans Court and that would be held as the final ruling of the Court, with no right of appeal. On any level, appeal is a "Permitted Event". You need the "Permission to Appeal" or you don't have the neccessary "Standing" to present your case in an Appealate Court.
 
By Quartermaster on November 5, 2011 1:17 PM
 I don't know if Oregon has a "Veteran's Court." If the company takes him to court to evict him, tehn that will allow several question to arise that would not get brought up in any other way. The biggest question I see is the matter of public policy. If expressing patriotism by flying a flag is not repugnant to public policy, and forbidding it is, then the company may have a serious problem. It will depend on whether or not the judge is sane or not. In that part of Oregon, that would be a real gamble.

I'd say the company has already lost the PR battle just by allowing the issue to come up in a public forum. That may not be enough to save the guy.

XBradTC has a cute post today:

"There is finally conclusive evidence that Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi are dead.

Yesterday, they both registered to vote in Chicago."