free speech? not if you are asking for peace...

[acroyear]

Woman faces fines for wreath peace sign - Yahoo! News:

DENVER - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.

Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan. Three or four residents complained, he said.

I don't know...I see this

and I'm sure that I feel offended...really.

"satan?"  did this people totally forget the 60s ever happened?

Comments

[tully-argyle.livejournal.com]

When they are in the news, I often feel that homeowners' associations themselves are symbols of Satan. The entitlement and power these groups of yabos feel over the appearance of their conformist, precious little neighborhoods seems absurd. There are times I am glad I rent and cannot really display anything external, period. Because the frustration of putting something up that seems okay to me and then having an opinion poll go against me, would be teeth-gritting.

You can have a peace symbol and *not* be making an anti-war statement. And anyone mistaking it for a symbol of Satan or just not knowing it by sight, either was born after the 60's and is a poor product of our modern schooling system or just selectively blind.

I thought it was a rather widely known symbol.

[tully-argyle.livejournal.com]

"Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn't say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members."

Oh, isn't he a prize?

[margoeve.livejournal.com]

Someone should make him listen to the Yoko Ono part of "So this is Christmas" on a continuous loop until he kills himself.