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struggle4progress

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Tue Aug 18, 2015, 02:25 PM Aug 2015

HOA attorney: Cary man’s Confederate-style flag battle not a ‘free speech’ issue (NC)

By WNCN Staff
Published: August 18, 2015, 1:51 am
Updated: August 18, 2015, 6:05 am

... Frank Bray, of Cary, was fighting the HOA notification to remove his flag, which features elements of the North Carolina state flag as well as the Confederate battle flag’s stars and bars. Bray says recent news events have unfairly made the battle flag into a symbol of racism. Bray believes his flag is a symbol of pride.

Monday, a lawyer for Carpenter Village homeowners’ association responded to WNCN, backing up the HOA’s demand for its removal, and saying that Bray himself had agreed not to fly that kind of flag outside of his townhouse as part of a purchase agreement ...


http://wncn.com/2015/08/18/hoa-attorney-confederate-style-flag-is-not-free-speech-issue-in-planned-community/

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HOA attorney: Cary man’s Confederate-style flag battle not a ‘free speech’ issue (NC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2015 OP
An HOA doing the right thing?! KamaAina Aug 2015 #1
Pride in what? TreasonousBastard Aug 2015 #2
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