12,000 American Flags - were they DNC trash or stolen - asking the Denver Police Department

Denver PD ^ | 9-6-08 | dfu

[doug from upland]

THE STORY FROM ABC IN DENVER

As many of you have heard, there is a flag controversy between the Republicans and the DemocRATS. The RNC is claiming that it save about 12,000 Americans flags leftover from Invesco Field in Denver. The claim is that they were headed for the dumpster.

The DemocRATS are claiming that the flags were "stolen" and never intended for the dumpster. They claim that they were in storage and were either to be used again or donated.

If 12,000 flags were stolen, I would think that a police report would have been filed.

In a preliminary contact with the Denver Police, I was transferred to an officer in the communications department. She knew of no police report for the theft of such flags, but she referred me to the Public Information Officer, whom I will attempt to call on Monday.

That is the latest on the story. We will let you know the status after the discussion with the PIO.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Great quote:

“I just spoke with the person at Invesco who found the flags and he thinks both sides are exaggerating a bit. The person claims the majority of the bags with flags in them were near the trash, on a dock, and would have been thrown away. The person thinks it was probably an “oversight” by the Democrats rather than any nefarious plot against the flag. But the person doesn’t believe anyone was coming to get them: “The flags were there for a week and a day and no one came looking for them.””

Doesn’t really sound to me like BOTH sides are exaggerating.

[nuconvert]

It sure looked to me like the flags were in plastic trash bags with other items that anyone would consider trash

[SevenofNine]

Well if you info from Inforamtion officer on Monday post it I really want to know

I wouldn’t pass that on Demos especially Magic Barry

[doug from upland]

‘Maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’”

This whole campaign is walking and quacking like an unpatriotic duck. Gee, I think the question of whether he hangs out with radicals has been answered.

[ken21]

agree.

big time tv ad!

[doug from upland]

[ModelBreaker]

In a preliminary contact with the Denver Police, I was transferred to an officer in the communications department. She knew of no police report for the theft of such flags, but she referred me to the Public Information Officer, whom I will attempt to call on Monday. That is the latest on the story. We will let you know the status after the discussion with the PIO.

Interesting. Those flags are $5.00 a piece. So $60,000 was "stolen" and noone thought to file a police report. Well ModelBreaker has four of them. Every precinct caucus I run in the future will start with one of them and the story of how the rats were going to throw them out.

So come and get me Obama, for receiving stolen property.

You guys should have seen it today. They passed them out to a huge crowd at the McCain/Palin rally. The flags started at the front and then spread across the crowd. By the end, 12,000 Republicans were waving flags paid for by the DNC.

That's what conservatives have spent the last 50 years doing. Cleaning up after the mess left by liberals. We even know what to do with their trash.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Doug, those pics need to go to Drudge, Hannity, Rush and any other media outlet that will broadcast them.

[frannie]

I know I saw a picture of discarded flags but I can't remember where I saw it.

Some were mixed with litter and if I remember some were on the floor. They were not in bundles or bundled in trash bags.

[RightField]

Yes, and note that the pictures were taken at two different times ... note different positions of her purse, the water bottles, etc. Just making the case here that Biden regularly put the flag on the ground when he wasn't using it - the flag did not just drop to the ground unawares.

[library user]

I just spent a half-hour trying to find the photo Drudge had on his site last week, to no avail. Maybe someelse will have better luck?

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/timeline_html.htm

[org.whodat]

I think someone is blowing a lot of smoke here, but I’m not sure who.

[Anti-Hillary]

So I have a question????? If they were in “storage” why were they in trash bags and NOT bins or boxes????? I am pretty sure when you place an order for thousands of flags they are not delivered to you in trash bags!!! And if you were storing them for future use you would put them in a box and in a storage closet. NOT IN A TRASH BAG ON A LOADING DOCK!!!! They are caught red handed!!!

[SandRat]

See Reply#12 and seethe with rage at the RATS.

[SevenofNine]

What bunch of pigs Demos are

[doug from upland]

You need to sell one of them on eBay. If you need help writing the script, it will be a pleasure! Or, I will list it as long as I know it can be delivered to the winning bidder. Are you in?

[freespirited]

I love this comment from the Denver Post site:

If the flags had been French, the democrats would have taken them home like they were a national treasure and displayed them proudly.

[doug from upland]

Here are the statements from the Democrats.

“American flags were proudly waved by the 75,000 people who joined Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. John McCain should applaud that, but instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism.

Ummm, “wrongfully took” means stolen.

[AliVeritas]

I gather you saw this... (check out the Pepsi Center vs. Invesco/Redstate comment)

http://atrueobamanation.blogspot.com/2008/09/dont-question-their-patriotism.html

The natives are getting restless on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7bfbw26u8

[Blood of Tyrants]