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Sheriff ordered to remove American Flag

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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I read that this morning. I thought that is the sickest thing I have ever heard, especially from a Judge.

    I also thought that was one cool flag, I would love to have it.
    RLTW

  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Judges rule boys. Not
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    Judge wanted to remain anonymous, eh? No balls for sure.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    print their names, addresses, and phone numbers in the local paper.
  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I was the sheriff there I'd still refuse to take it down.
  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If the Sheriff had any balls he would tell the judges to pound sand.

    I worked for one that did. What are they gonna do?

    Nothing. That's what.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remember the movie Walking Tall? Move the judge's office to the toilet!!
  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I swear you couldn't possibly make this garbage up. It's just too surreal.
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Alpine
    If the Sheriff had any balls he would tell the judges to pound sand.

    I worked for one that did. What are they gonna do?

    Nothing. That's what.


    First the Sheriff should put a US Flag patch on the uniform of all the Baliffs that work court security. Second, the Judges are completely dependent on his for their security, he should thin down their security detail.

    There is a huge US flag on the wall in the Roanoke County VA court house, as well as both US and VA flags in each court room.
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    So it's not a flag. It's cut up firehoses in a heavy wood frame put together to look like a flag. That's cool, patriotic art and all that. I like the idea.

    The judges say they don't want the lobby to fill up with memorials. But don't care what the Sheriff does in his own offices.

    Now then, before I'll accept the Sheriff's version on this, can anyone come up with photos of the courtrooms in that building? Do those courtrooms not have an American flag and State flag in each one?

    If the flags are there, the Sheriff is wrong.

    If the flags are not there, the Sheriff is right.
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    So it's not a flag. It's cut up firehoses in a heavy wood frame put together to look like a flag. That's cool, patriotic art and all that. I like the idea.

    The judges say they don't want the lobby to fill up with memorials. But don't care what the Sheriff does in his own offices.

    Now then, before I'll accept the Sheriff's version on this, can anyone come up with photos of the courtrooms in that building? Do those courtrooms not have an American flag and State flag in each one?

    If the flags are there, the Sheriff is wrong.

    If the flags are not there, the Sheriff is right.




    That's valid, I'm down with that.
  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll bet the judge studied law at Bezerkly. All the hippie liberals are running the show now comrades.

    Mikel Ratsyouoff.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe I should remain anonymous too, but I couldn't find the anonymous button. I understand the sheriff and the firemen are emotional about this flag and their hearts are in the right place, and United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 (The Flag Code) has all the weight and force of a suggestion, but the bottom line is this flag is not a United States flag.

    It would be interesting to know what the judges would say if the sheriff wanted to display a United States flag, but for now I'll have to agree with the judges for purely technical reasons.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ChrisInTempe said it better and earlier than I did, but I'm a slow typist and even slower thinker, so I didn't see his post until I had posted.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why the F cannot we, the people, take this country back and run it like it should be run. Screw all the democrats and republicans. We need a common man with common sense and balls to run this country. I cannot believe that in my 52 years in this great country, I watched it completely flush itself down the toilet. We are doomed as a nation unless we find someone that will reach down inside his pants and remind himself that he is still a man. The liberals now run this country and if we do not win the white house back in 2016, were toast.
  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This country has set a precedence of denigrating flags and this same idiotic policy practice has come home to roost.
    What's next?
  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I Agree 1000 % John [^]quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Why the F cannot we, the people, take this country back and run it like it should be run. Screw all the democrats and republicans. We need a common man with common sense and balls to run this country. I cannot believe that in my 52 years in this great country, I watched it completely flush itself down the toilet. We are doomed as a nation unless we find someone that will reach down inside his pants and remind himself that he is still a man. The liberals now run this country and if we do not win the white house back in 2016, were toast.
  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't you know what you say when you meet a lawyer with an IQ of 70?



    Good morning, your Honor......





    However, I have to agree- this is not an American flag- it is a piece of artwork that resembles an American flag.
  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TooBig
    http://conservativebyte.com/2015/03/sheriff-ordered-to-remove-american-flag-from-courthouse/#

    How low can they go[V]


    LOWER THAN WHALE CHIT WITH THE POS IN THE WH [}:)]
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Why the F cannot we, the people, take this country back and run it like it should be run. Screw all the democrats and republicans. We need a common man with common sense and balls to run this country. I cannot believe that in my 52 years in this great country, I watched it completely flush itself down the toilet. We are doomed as a nation unless we find someone that will reach down inside his pants and remind himself that he is still a man. The liberals now run this country and if we do not win the white house back in 2016, were toast.


    I bet there were a lot of German's wondering the same thing back in the early 30s. We know how that turned out.
  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Why the F cannot we, the people, take this country back and run it like it should be run. Screw all the democrats and republicans. We need a common man with common sense and balls to run this country. I cannot believe that in my 52 years in this great country, I watched it completely flush itself down the toilet. We are doomed as a nation unless we find someone that will reach down inside his pants and remind himself that he is still a man. The liberals now run this country and if we do not win the white house back in 2016, were toast.


    +1000000000%
  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Why the F cannot we, the people, take this country back and run it like it should be run. Screw all the democrats and republicans. We need a common man with common sense and balls to run this country. I cannot believe that in my 52 years in this great country, I watched it completely flush itself down the toilet. We are doomed as a nation unless we find someone that will reach down inside his pants and remind himself that he is still a man. The liberals now run this country and if we do not win the white house back in 2016, were toast.


    Win it back with what?
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TooBig
    http://conservativebyte.com/2015/03/sheriff-ordered-to-remove-american-flag-from-courthouse/#

    How low can they go[V]


    Been looking at local news on this deal. Story gets a big longer:
    http://hamptonroads.com/2015/03/flag-made-fire-hoses-sparks-dispute-portsmouth


    No change in my position, this is another case of False Moral Outrage. The courthouse has many American Flags. There are American Flags in every courtroom and a great big one out front of the building. American Flags have not been banned in the Courthouse.

    This is cut up fire houses with an extra blue one to represent police. It is a memorial, not a flag. The Sheriff wants every JUROR to walk past it in the lobby.

    Next, it was intended as a gift to the Sheriff's Office. Not as a Courthouse display. The Sheriff decided to put it in front of every JUROR entering the Courthouse.

    Judges are right, Sheriff is wrong and again, the place is chock full of American Flags. Just as it should be!
  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Typical socialist activist. The stories mention of the typical socialist liberal democrat as one who is not patriotic is spot on.
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by chiefr
    Typical socialist activist. The stories mention of the typical socialist liberal democrat as one who is not patriotic is spot on.



    Not sure what that's all about.

    Did you miss the part about how the place is chock full of American Flags? Lots of American Flags? Every courtroom has an American Flag? The building has a nice tall flagpole where Old Glory proudly waves?

    This is not about American Flags. It's about the Sheriff wants to put a tribute to police in everyone's face. That means everyone who goes to a trial gets an opportunity to complain that jurors have to walk past tributes to the very people who's judgement they must question at trial.

    If it was about American Flags, there wouldn't be so many in the courthouse where they belong.
  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    quote:Originally posted by chiefr
    Typical socialist activist. The stories mention of the typical socialist liberal democrat as one who is not patriotic is spot on.



    Not sure what that's all about.

    Did you miss the part about how the place is chock full of American Flags? Lots of American Flags? Every courtroom has an American Flag? The building has a nice tall flagpole where Old Glory proudly waves?

    This is not about American Flags. It's about the Sheriff wants to put a tribute to police in everyone's face. That means everyone who goes to a trial gets an opportunity to complain that jurors have to walk past tributes to the very people who's judgement they must question at trial.

    If it was about American Flags, there wouldn't be so many in the courthouse where they belong.


    The Judge is right.
    Lady Justice holds a set of scales and is BLINDFOLDED. How would you feel if the person that robbed your house was an ex-fireman and there was a memorial hanging in front of every juror that will decide the case? Justice may be blind but people are not.

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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431
    edited November -1
    I'm with ChrisInTempe on this one. False moral outrage is a good way to put it.
  • kannoneerkannoneer Member Posts: 3,402 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ah, one of the stories which turns out to be better than initially described. But with the way the flag has been treated in the past I would believe anything.
    Kind of like the courthouse which banned the Ten Commandments from the premises some years back.
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