BOCA RATON, Fla. - A Palm Beach County man is flying a Ku Klux Klan flag outside his trailer home in Boca Raton, and is prominently displaying a noose and "Members Wanted" sign in his front yard, CBS Miami reports.

The man, who did not give his name, defended his right to fly the flag at his home in western Boca Raton.

"I'm not sending any message," the man told a reporter. "The same thing when the Puerto Rican flies his flag. He's proud of his heritage. I'm proud of mine."

Neighbors, however, say the flag sends a message of hatred, violence and racism.

"I think it's horrible," said Roseanne Areces. "I think it's disgusting and I think it should be taken down."

Margaret Martin lives across the street. She said she is one of the only African-Americans in the neighborhood and that she fears for her safety.

"I'm worried," she said, and wondered whether he would burn a cross in her yard.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He's got the right to do that.

Others have the right to beat the shit out of him, and then claim they never saw or heard anything happen.

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Unless there is some rule against it he has the right to be ignorant.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I don't think he has the right to incite anger and fear amongst his neighbors. If I was the law,I'd tell him to take it down. Of course the ACLU would get involved,which sucks.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Yeah, freedom of speech.

Bastards....

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can't yell "fire" in a movie theater. Same thing going on with that flag flying.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I think you have to allow the flag but you might be able to do something about displaying a noose. Maybe you can claim that is a direct threat to your neighbors or something...

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Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people have been killed in this country's history by people waving the American flag, and it offends me. Should those people also have to take their flag down?

You're better than this, Jimmy. Let the idiot fly his flag, and then be mocked and ridiculed. That's what this country is about.

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No not really at all. Yelling fire in a movie theatre can cause harm to others. Flying a KKK flag just displays your idiocy.

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Tough situation. Sucks.

Definitely dont invite that guy to the block party

Fuck his rights. We now live in a country where my wife calling me to pick up a gallon of milk on my way home could be misconstrued as a terrorist plot by 5 guys in black suits & sunglasses sitting in a van in my neighborhood.

take the flag down.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He's probably the guy who pays for the bouncy house.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

yeah,that he bought at kkk-mart

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

My brother has one. They can use it.

I dont understand any of this post.

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Some of our rights have been eroded, so fuck our rights altogether and just do what Pasta thinks is right.

all our phone calls are being monitored by the NSA.if that's acceptable,so is taking down a hillbillie's moldy flag.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Oh, God! Can't we elect Boilermaker Rick king instead?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Yep,can't go wrong!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

It was a terrible post.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

But the monitoring isnt acceptable. Regardless of that, one thing has nothing to do with the other.

You can't restrict someone's freedom of speech because it goes against your beliefs. The guy is a pud. Lot's of people in the world are, this guy is letting us know ahead of time.

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AND NOW,THE REST OF THE STORY:

WEST BOCA RATON Fla. - A Ku Klux Klan flag that had flying in front of a West Boca Raton trailer home and that had infuriated neighbors has been taken down, CBS Miami reports.

The man who had raised the flag will replace it with a Confederate flag, his wife, Marla Curly, said.

Curly said that her husband, who refused to give his name, put up the flag "because he's a boob." She also said that flying the flag was "ignorant and offensive" and that he would substitute a confederate flag because "he's a rebel without a cause."

"I'm apologizing for him," she said.
She said that she did not believe in what the Klan stood for, but that her husband did. She had earlier urged him to tell people why he "loves to be a white man."

And to her mother, who stopped by begging them to end the neighborhood controversy, she said, "Apologize to who? The blacks and the Puerto Ricans? Just because he took the flag down doesn't mean he feels any different. He still feels the way he feels."

One neighbor, Susan Wantz, shouted, "What's wrong with you people? I've been here for 32 years. You don't belong here. Tan America! You're a pig. There's not room in America for racism and people like you. If you don't like it in this neighborhood, get out."

But another neighbor, Bianca Barresi, said, "I'm not racist, they are, but they're really good people," said neighbor Bianca Barresi.

In addition to the Klan flag, a sign saying "Members Wanted" is in the yard and a noose hangs in the front yard. The man would not say what he was recruiting members for; the noose was in the front yard because he didn't "have a big tree in the backyard to hang it from."

On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League and the ACLU both defended the man's First Amendment right to display the flag.

"However, the Anti-Defamation League strongly condemns the display of the Ku Klux Klan flag coupled with the noose, which is akin to the swastika with respect to the Jewish community in the fearful emotions it evokes within the African-American community," said Hava Holzhauer, the ADL's Florida regional director. "While the display is likely legal, these symbols are highly offensive, hurtful and a haunting reminder of the Ku Klux Klan's history of violence, terrorism, and lynchings of African Americans."

The ACLU noted that the First Amendment protected people's right to express themselves on their own property even in ways that were offensive and abhorrent.

"We don't believe the answer to ugly expression is less speech, but rather more speech: hopefully others in the community will use this moment as an opportunity to exercise their own First Amendment rights and express messages of tolerance and equality," it said.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

The 4th amendment has been destroyed, so let's also destroy the first amendment?

Makes sense...

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Before I make my decision, is he smoking on his property to the annoyance of others?

I guess homeowners associations aren't all bad. We are forbidden from flying the KKK flag.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

As a society we have to be careful not to force views on others. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs even if they are unpopular or what others consider to be bigoted. What we are seeing with a lot of the things going on in politics is that certain views are being promoted as acceptable and other views as unacceptable. Is this guy going to be charged with a hate crime for saying he's a KKK member? Holding an unpopular viewpoint is not a crime and when it is made a crime the concept of freedom is diminished.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

His neighbors' reactions/actions are their own and not his responsibility, same as for anyone else.

People that don't like the ACLU tend to have little understanding of the imoprtance of their work. I was that way too for a while; I then realized the grave danger* in that way of thinking.

* - is there any other kind?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

http://www.theonion.com/articles/south- ... -year,377/

South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

NEWS • Patriotism • 50 States • ISSUE 36•13 • Apr 12, 2000

HUNTSVILLE, AL – For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again.

Three of the estimated 45 million Southerners who have not yet gotten around to rising again.

"Make no mistake, the South shall rise again," said Knox Pritchard, president of the Huntsville-based Alliance Of Confederate States. "But we're just not quite ready to do it now. Hopefully, we'll be able to rise again real soon, maybe even in 2001."

Pritchard's fellow Southerners shared his confidence.

"Yes, sir. The South will rise again, and when it does, I'll be right up front waving the Stars and Bars," said Dock Mullins of Decatur, GA. "But first, I gotta get my truck fixed and get that rusty old stove out of my yard."

"Lord willing, and the creek don't rise, we gonna rise again," said Sumter, SC, radiator technician Hap Slidell, who describes himself as "Southern by the grace of God." "I don't know exactly when we're gonna do it, but one of these days, we're gonna show them Yankees how it's done."

"Save your Confederate dollars," Slidell added. "You can bet on that."

The Deep South states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee consistently rank at the bottom of the nation in a wide variety of statistical categories, including literacy, infant mortality, hospital beds, toilet-paper sales, and shoe usage. Even so, some experts believe the region could be poised for a renaissance.

"The way things stand, things in the Deep South almost have to get better. Otherwise, the people who live there will devolve into preverbal, overall-wearing sub-morons within a century," said Professor Dennis Lassiter of Princeton University. "Either Southerners will start improving themselves, or they'll be sold to middle-class Asians as pets."

"My constituents are decent, hard-working folk," said Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, in his 22nd annual "Next Year, By God!" speech on the steps of North Carolina's capitol building. "We are a proud people who mayn't have all that much fancy-pants book-learnin', but we live and die with pride in our proud heritage and the dignity of our forebears."

Helms' speech was met with nearly 25 minutes of enthusiastic hoots and rebel yells by the 15,000 drunk, unemployed tobacco pickers in attendance.

Though Southerners are overwhelmingly in favor of rising again, few were able to provide specific details of the rising-again process.

"I don't know, I reckon we'll build us a bunch of big, fancy buildins and pave us up a whole mess of roads," said Bobby Lee Fuller of Greenville, MS. "I ain't exactly sure where we're gonna get the money for that, but when Johnny Reb sets his mind to something, you best get out of his way."

"Oh, it'll happen, sure as the sun come up in the morning," said Buford Comstock, 26, a student at Over 'N' Back Diesel Driving School in Union City, TN. "The South is gonna rise up, just as soon as we get together and get all our shit back in one sock. Then, look out, Northerners!"

"Yesiree," Comstock added, "one day soon, the Mason-Dixon Line will be the boundary between a great nation and one whose time done passed."

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

There's no question he should be allowed to fly the flag. I don't even know how there's a debate. It's protected in his Constitutional rights. As someone already said, we also have the right as a society to mock him and beat up his kids (well maybe not the last one).

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I'm not entirely sure chas could write something that dumb.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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