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American flags replaced with white flags on Brooklyn Bridge
ABC ^ | 7/22/2014 | ABC

Posted on 07/22/2014 10:51:36 PM PDT by Dallas59



BROOKLYN BRIDGE -- Someone has replaced two American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge with mysterious white flags.

The white flags - international symbols of surrender - fluttered Tuesday from poles on the stone supports that hold cables above the bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan.

One of the flags, viewed via video, appeared to have faint traces of stars and stripes on it.

Police say it isn't clear what time they were placed there - or by whom.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 5ththread; flags; newyork; surrender; whiteflag
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1 posted on 07/22/2014 10:51:36 PM PDT by Dallas59
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I think the white flags represent the surrender of America by BHO. It may have been guys from our side that did this.


2 posted on 07/22/2014 10:56:59 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Dallas59

Why is there so much outrage over these white flags??? They symbolize Obama’s immigration and foreign policy!


3 posted on 07/22/2014 10:57:27 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: Right Brother

Well, then… Shouldn’t they have been black flags??? (or at least checkered, or even gray?)


4 posted on 07/22/2014 11:01:32 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Obama is mad! He's getting madder with each crisis and now he's a real MADMAN with no temper left!!!)
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To: Dallas59

The second they showed those flags on TV I knew what they symbolized..Obama’s surrender..heck he’s been surrendering since Jan 2009 its the only thing Obama knows how to do, besides bowing down to our enemies


5 posted on 07/22/2014 11:11:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Dallas59
If someone could do this on a major structure in a city full of cameras, couldn't they also place a dirty bomb, nerve gas canister, EMP device or bacterial agent there without anyone seeing until it was too late? How do you like your new lackadaisical Bolshevik mayor now, folks?
7 posted on 07/22/2014 11:25:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Not everyone in NYC is a liberal


8 posted on 07/22/2014 11:32:20 PM PDT by stanne
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Where did I say they were? He won with a majority, I’m guessing he didn’t get 100% of the vote.


9 posted on 07/22/2014 11:35:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Just saying


10 posted on 07/22/2014 11:40:09 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Dallas59

NYPD Thinks Brooklyn Bridge White Flag Stunt Was an Inside Job
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/nypd-brooklyn-bridge-flags-inside-job.html


11 posted on 07/22/2014 11:44:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Just saying what? Show me where I said everyone in NYC was a liberal... Do you deny that Bill de Blasio/Warren Wilhelm, Jr. is a communist?


12 posted on 07/22/2014 11:47:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Right Brother

“I think the white flags represent the surrender of America by BHO. It may have been guys from our side that did this.”

Or tourist from France


13 posted on 07/23/2014 12:02:46 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Dallas59

Hasn’t anyone wondered if they weren’t just cheap flags that faded and no one noticed?


14 posted on 07/23/2014 12:05:25 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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Hasn’t anyone wondered if they weren’t just cheap flags that faded and no one noticed?

No.

Anything else on your mind?

15 posted on 07/23/2014 12:14:45 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Ok....so the theory is...so someone got the same exact size flags....bleached them...but not completely....then hung them in place of the other flags?

Why?...what is the motive?


16 posted on 07/23/2014 12:26:35 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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Ok....so the theory is...so someone got the same exact size flags....bleached them...but not completely....then hung them in place of the other flags Why?...what is the motive?

All good questions.

You know one of the flags was inverse, too, right? Black stars on a white background, red and white stripes reversed, all faded back to grey so light it could barely be seen against the white - just like the other flag. So, one flag completely faded in the positive, and one flag completely faded in the negative.

So, not bleach. Not actually faded, either. Rather created that way, and installed with no one seeing anyone do it.

Or changed right on the flagpoles...


17 posted on 07/23/2014 12:40:12 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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"A stretch of bright sunny days will bleach out the flags, Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/july-4-biggest-day-year-brooklyn-bridge-flag-man-cesar-pazmino-article-1.427480#ixzz38HBWrQFD
18 posted on 07/23/2014 12:58:08 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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19 posted on 07/23/2014 1:07:04 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Crim

It also says “a flag is usually freshened every three months.” So how many days is “a stretch of bright sunny days?” I don’t know, but I have a sneaking suspicion it’s longer than the evening of one day, where as the sun set, the webcam could pick out the bright colors of both flags, to the following morning, when they were virtually pure white. And what is the meaning of “bleach” - faded how much? In the entire history of the bridge, we can safely presume that the flags didn’t suddenly astonish everyone by turning pure white.

Also you didn’t forget that inverse-negative thing of one of the flags, did you? Kind of hard for bleaching to do that.

There, has enough time been wasted on this obviously inapplicable idea? Because I’m done with it.


20 posted on 07/23/2014 1:28:50 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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