"Old Glory " Offensive?
This is the most absurd thing I have come across to date. How in the HELL can the American flag be offensive in our country ... AMERICA! Political correctness has definately crossed the line and its time common sense is returned.
ORDER NOT TO "OFFEND"
A NewsWithViews.com &
US~Observer.com Report
May 27, 2005
By Ron Lee
MEDFORD, OR - Due to intense public pressure brought on by outraged U.S. citizens over the display of a Mexican flag, the Oregon Employment Department removed the flag from its 119 N. Oakdale Ave. offices in Medford, Oregon, but that isn't the only thing that has been taken down from its walls.
Just hours after the story "Placing the Mexican Flag above 'Old Glory'" was published on-line, the US~Observer received the response below from Thomas Fuller the Employment Department's Statewide Communications Manager:
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm
Following up on this report, NewsWithViews.com headed back to the employment department to investigate. When asked why the American flag was removed along with the Mexican flag, Jean Work, the Office Manager for the Medford Oregon Employment Department replied, "It was removed in order not to offend." But when asked who it would offend she stated, "Well, I’d rather not use the word offend. It was removed in order to conform with the rest of the staff who have their flags on their desks."
[ Offend? What the hell it is a American government office and the American flag should be flown there.]
According to Craig Spivey, a public information representative of the Oregon Employment Department, there are currently 37 employees in their Medford office. When asked how many of these individuals were displaying their flag on their desks and are these individuals American citizens he replied, "Personal information about our employees is considered confidential by the department, and therefore can not be shared with the media."
In a meeting between Paul Walter, one of the editors of NewsWithViews.com, and Edward Snook, discussing this case Walter stated, "The appearance that it gave to me after the Mexican flag was removed is that the American flag had to be removed in order not to offend the Mexican employees and all for the sake of political correctness."
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm
Walter, an immigrant himself, "I left Yugoslavia to be an American, because it's the greatest country in the world. Why would I hold onto a political symbol of a country I chose to no longer be a part of?"
Whatever the reasoning behind the lowering of the Stars and Stripes, the public is already inflamed by the Employment Department's - and ultimately the Department of Administrative Services - move to allow the display of the Mexican flag in a state-run office in the first place. According to the majority of the approximated 2,000 e-mails received, the hostility they feel for such an action is tied directly to illegal immigration and this current administrations lack of action in the face of what some call an invasion. Many fear that our country is being eroded away into a multi-lingual, multi-culturalist, separatist, alien haven, rather than being the melting pot that our forefathers envisioned.
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm
[Political correctness has gone to far when we as citizens in our OWN country cannot fly OUR AMERICAN flag for fear it may be offensive to those who are not AMERICAN or have sympathies towards other nations. If they have these feelings then GO HOME AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AMERICA DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ORDER NOT TO "OFFEND"
A NewsWithViews.com &
US~Observer.com Report
May 27, 2005
By Ron Lee
MEDFORD, OR - Due to intense public pressure brought on by outraged U.S. citizens over the display of a Mexican flag, the Oregon Employment Department removed the flag from its 119 N. Oakdale Ave. offices in Medford, Oregon, but that isn't the only thing that has been taken down from its walls.
Just hours after the story "Placing the Mexican Flag above 'Old Glory'" was published on-line, the US~Observer received the response below from Thomas Fuller the Employment Department's Statewide Communications Manager:
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm
Following up on this report, NewsWithViews.com headed back to the employment department to investigate. When asked why the American flag was removed along with the Mexican flag, Jean Work, the Office Manager for the Medford Oregon Employment Department replied, "It was removed in order not to offend." But when asked who it would offend she stated, "Well, I’d rather not use the word offend. It was removed in order to conform with the rest of the staff who have their flags on their desks."
[ Offend? What the hell it is a American government office and the American flag should be flown there.]
According to Craig Spivey, a public information representative of the Oregon Employment Department, there are currently 37 employees in their Medford office. When asked how many of these individuals were displaying their flag on their desks and are these individuals American citizens he replied, "Personal information about our employees is considered confidential by the department, and therefore can not be shared with the media."
In a meeting between Paul Walter, one of the editors of NewsWithViews.com, and Edward Snook, discussing this case Walter stated, "The appearance that it gave to me after the Mexican flag was removed is that the American flag had to be removed in order not to offend the Mexican employees and all for the sake of political correctness."
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm
Walter, an immigrant himself, "I left Yugoslavia to be an American, because it's the greatest country in the world. Why would I hold onto a political symbol of a country I chose to no longer be a part of?"
Whatever the reasoning behind the lowering of the Stars and Stripes, the public is already inflamed by the Employment Department's - and ultimately the Department of Administrative Services - move to allow the display of the Mexican flag in a state-run office in the first place. According to the majority of the approximated 2,000 e-mails received, the hostility they feel for such an action is tied directly to illegal immigration and this current administrations lack of action in the face of what some call an invasion. Many fear that our country is being eroded away into a multi-lingual, multi-culturalist, separatist, alien haven, rather than being the melting pot that our forefathers envisioned.
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm
[Political correctness has gone to far when we as citizens in our OWN country cannot fly OUR AMERICAN flag for fear it may be offensive to those who are not AMERICAN or have sympathies towards other nations. If they have these feelings then GO HOME AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AMERICA DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
