> > People have even been cautioned by the Police for flying the Flag of St George on their property. Meanwhile, the various celebrations of those ethnic minorities are welcomed with open arms. >
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> > You mean they object to flying the flag? Are you saying there is reverse discrimination? I'm glad I live in America where that could never happen. Especially in The South.
> > Howard
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> That's just about it. Police receive a complaint from an Ethnic minority that the person next door is flying a St George's Flag and it offends their ethnic sensibilities and so the Police go round to get the neighbour to take it down.
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> There was even a case once of a woman who displayed porcelain pigs on her windowsills. A muslim man who lived nearby and walked past objected to this and so Police were summoned to ask her to remove them. She refused and was arrested.
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> Just one more case of how our Government is doing everything in its power to destroy 2,000 years of English National History and Culture.
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> Beasty

Just as I feared. It is the same here. I don't fly a Confederate flag, because I know it will offend some people. But keeping people from being offended isn't the government's job. We are a free country, which means if I want to fly a confederate flag, it should depend on what it means to me, not what it means to somebody else. Some have even said that forcing people to take down a confederate flag would be the same as violating free speech.

My personal opinion is that public buildings should not fly the Confederate flag, but private citizens should have the right to do so. Some of our states have incorperated the design of the flag into their state flags. Since that is depicting a part of the state's history, and is not the whole flag, that seems OK to me.

I am not offended by General/President Grant's picture on a fifty-dollar bill. But as a Southerner, maybe I should be. I wonder if I expressed ethnic sensibility to it, would they remove Grant's image? Well, to be perfectly honest, I like fifty dollar bills. I wish I had a bunch of them.

The problem with governments running a don't-offend-anybody patrol, is that they don't seem to know where to stop.

I have several ceramic pigs. Maybe I should display them publicly and see if anybody complains.
Howard