youneed2see.com — A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
Nov 27, 2006 View in Crawl 4
spurtleNov 27, 2006
Isn't the upside down cross just a sign of St. Peter since he was crucified upside down?
xethNov 27, 2006
Nah, everyone knows that the peace sign is just the Mercedes-Benz logo with an extra segment.
thereNov 27, 2006
"but I think the thinking of a lot of westerners goes more along the lines "of: "if we don't get those brown people now, they're going to kill us the first chance they get"."You're actually doing the same thing your accusing others of doing... stereotyping.. If I had to generalize which specific westerners are doing this... it's far rightwingers. (not all rightwingers) Listen to the rants of the Coultiers, Becks, O'Reillys and Limbaughs of the world... and you'll understand better who are the bigots in the western world.
tablatronixNov 27, 2006
Id keep pressing that + button if i could.
absolutenotNov 27, 2006
Perhaps if the conservative posters could post a logical, coherent, non-vitriolic argument, they might get dugg up. Most of the conservative posts that I see are complaining "The vast left-wing conspiracy is trying to keep us conservatives, who happened to hold almost total power in government for the last 6 years, down". Stop trying to perpetuate the myth that democratic forums (because digg is very much a democratic forum) have a leftward slant, and make your post say something logical and meaningful. If the truth has a left or right slant, perhaps you should reposition your center.@12_chars --While technically correct with your remark on you get what you sign up for -- I think this case is still far beyond how a reasonable person would interpret their covenants. 5 Reasonable people, in fact -- who were effectively fired after they told the HOA president that they believed the display was just a holiday statement and not meant to be divisive. The president of the HOA is obviously on a crusade, and is abusing his power. This symbolizes everything that is wrong with HOA's in general, and I see no way that he's going to come out of this without a vast amount of egg on his face.
wackytNov 27, 2006
"Well I'm pretty sure they didn't have a peace sign on the side of the gas chambers in Nazi Germany. Just a thought maybe the difference is the symbolism?"Hmmm. Good point."Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck."<a class="user" href="http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm">http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm</a>So, the Nazis had a symbol for life, sun, power, strength, and good luck on the side of the gas chambers. Ain't symbolism a wonderful thing?
kremvaxNov 27, 2006
Only rightwing nutjob "focus on the family" "faith based government initiative" "christians."you know, Republicans.The rest of us Christians, we actually read the bible.
Closed AccountNov 28, 2006
What a bunch of wussies. Just rip it down. If anyone gives you a hard time about ripping it down, you're just exercising your right to freedom of expression. If they want to argue with that, just point to all the college punks that throw s**t at people when they're trying to speak on a topic the dumbass college kids aren't wise enough to understand yet. Or be like me. Violent.
Closed AccountNov 28, 2006
I'd just wait until you were on my property, claim I was in fear of my life, and blow your dumb ass away.
cbgalootNov 28, 2006
That's Hilarious. You know Rush Limbaugh is always giveing grief to people in Lomalinda. Seems he thinks they are the dumbest people on earth.<a class="user" href="http://www.givemetheinfo.com/Christmas-prank-gifts/">http://www.givemetheinfo.com/Christmas-prank-gifts/</a>
outbreak117Nov 29, 2006
yeah what happened to freedom of speech?that home owners association can shove it