Business Owner Threatened With Jail Time For Flying American Flag
Business Owner Threatened with Jail Time for Flying American Flag
March 13, 2012
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/business-owner-thr...
A Georgia man was slapped with a ticket and threatened with jail time after he refused to remove an American flag that’s been flying outside his business for more than thirty years.
An Albany code enforcement officer alleged that Tom Gieryic’s flag was in violation of the city’s sign ordinance. The standard size American flag was posted on a pole outside Gieryic’s automotive repair shop.
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“It’s been there for 30 years,” Gieryic told Fox News. “She told me my flag was in the city’s right of way.”
Gieryic said his troubles started last week when a group of retired Marines showed up and offered to put up a new flag. When he returned from lunch, Gieryic was met by a code enforcement officer telling him to either remove the American flag or face fines.
The Albany city manager did not return multiple calls seeking comment.
“I was shocked, man – a complete loss for words,” he recounted. “I told her I wasn’t going to be moving my flag.”
He said he was told that if he didn’t comply, he could face a $1,000-a-day fine and up to 60 days in jail. But the auto shop owner decided to stand his ground.
“She stomped off to her car, got her ticket book and demanded my license,” he said. “She wrote me a ticket for flying my American flag on the city’s right of way.”
After Gieryic raised a ruckus with city officials, his ticket was later reduced to a warning. But he was told the flag still had to be moved – by exactly one foot.
“I’m boiling on the inside,” he said. “They didn’t demand that I move it. They suggested I do it as a gesture of good will.”
Gieyric said he’s received all sorts of support for standing his ground – from folks dropping by to shake his hand to others who’ve offered to help pay any possible fines.
“I got 15 business cards from lawyers offering their services,” he said.
Gieryic said he wants the law changed.
“My local city manager has been more than fair,” he said. “He stands behind me, but the law is the law and his hands are tied.”
He blamed the entire incident on “government getting involved in areas they don’t need to be involved.”
“The point is – I’m an American,” he said. “That’s the American flag. That’s American soil. It belongs to me and I’m going to fly it. I’m going to fly it where I want to fly it as long as it’s not a safety hazard – and it’s not.”
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Comment by suzie on March 15, 2012 at 12:14pm
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regardless of how you feel about the flag it is shameful that in america you can't freely fly this symbol of what most people believe represents freedom! I wonder if he was flying a flag that said death to the terrorist if anyone would have complained! or how about snoopy and the red barron!
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Comment by DTOM on March 15, 2012 at 12:03pm
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The flag is a visual representation of a nation; it symbolises the values, morals and freedom or conversely the tyranny that its people live under.
The PTB have moved beyond the blind faith/ jingoism propaganda - it served them well enough in the post 9/11 years, now the agenda is to reverse this policy - The NDAA, Obama's absolute contempt for the Constitution and the recent declaration that Congress is 'ceremonial' are primary indicators of this.
The NWO's primary goal is to destroy national identity/culture.
Deny the population of a country a unified identity and you can divide and conquer as you please.
The Romans understood this, and transplated people to and from other parts of the Empire, so that conquered nations became homogenised and thus could not mount any unified resistance.
One can see this model being used within the EU at this time.
People blame each other as society is engineered into decline, while the NWO and their puppets lead us into their vision of a new order.
A combination of social engineering and BS revenue collection through codices/laws is one way to accomplish this, by 'punishing' the population, for their 'trangressions' - of course potentially everything is now a finable offence.
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Comment by Christopher on March 15, 2012 at 11:18am
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The US government knows that the Cult of the Flag is the most powerful tool in the brainwashing arsenal. By propagandizing through the special-interest-owned media, they intend to convince every American that it is his or her patriotic duty to support the President, right or wrong. They intend to distribute the red-white-and-blue Kool-aid to persuade us to ignore our values and morals and blindly wave the flag.
Learn more: http://daisyluther.blogspot.com/2012/03/cult-of-flag.html
There is no flag, large enough, to cover the shame of killing innocent people - Howard Zinn.
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