Silent Flag Protest Raises Outcry

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/13/2513/

Silent Flag Protest Raises Outcry
by Ann Schrader

DENVER, Colo. - Beth Hammer has turned her gated Wheat Ridge community upside down with her upside-down display of the U.S. flag.



On March 19 - the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq - Hammer decided to hang her flag upside down, which under the federal flag code is a signal of distress.

The 64-year-old retired banker said flying the flag with the white-starred blue field - called the union - on the bottom is her silent protest.

“I think the war in Iraq has put this country in distress,” Hammer said. “We are losing lives, liberty and our honor.”

Hammer contends displaying the U.S. flag upside down is her First Amendment right of free speech. She has hired a Denver civil rights lawyer, Mari Newman.
Flag Protest

“Just because she lives in a covenant-controlled community doesn’t mean she gives up her rights to free speech,” Newman said.

The Cambridge Park Homeowners Association, which represents owners of 107 patio homes, doesn’t agree with Hammer’s perspective.

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[Rick Myers]

1. We flew our HUGE flag upside-down on the 4th,

with the number 3587 next to it. Now about 3/4ths of our community has stopped talking to us...

But it had to be done. Fuck 'em.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Dontcha just love those "patriotic Americans" who...

haven't the first fucking clue?