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Oregon Department of Transportation removing American flags from I-5 overpasses
Komo News ^ | 2/27/22 | by KVAL

Posted on 02/28/2022 1:17:30 PM PST by MAGA2017

EUGENE, Ore. — American flags that have been placed on overpasses along I-5 are now being removed.

The Oregon Department of Transportation says they need to be removed due to safety concerns.

Over the past six months the flags have popped up on multiple overpasses from Cottage Grove to Woodburn.

"The mission of the Oregon Department of Transportation is to create a safe multi-mode of transportation system for all of our system users,” explains ODOT’s Angela Beers-Seydel. “And that means we have to maintain a safe environment. We can't have things hanging over or off of a freeway overpasses. When you attach it to an overpass we need to remove it because it's a distraction for drivers."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: flags; i5; krisstrickler; oregon; overpass
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But if these were rainbow flags...
1 posted on 02/28/2022 1:17:30 PM PST by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

Removing THOSE is a “hate” crime


2 posted on 02/28/2022 1:18:48 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: MAGA2017

BLM flags?


3 posted on 02/28/2022 1:19:01 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: MAGA2017

WTF? I used to live in the United States of America.


4 posted on 02/28/2022 1:19:24 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: MAGA2017

Hang BLM flags and see if they’re removed.


5 posted on 02/28/2022 1:20:02 PM PST by SAMWolf (Western civilization is almost done.)
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When you attach it to an overpass we need to remove it because it's a distraction for drivers.

Idiotic. The same could be said for anything within the drivers view while driving. I could understand if they said it was a hazard from falling down into traffic, but this reasoning is just an excuse to put a boot on patriotism.

6 posted on 02/28/2022 1:21:00 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: SAMWolf

Lets hope the people in Oregon come to fully aware of WHO is leading them.


7 posted on 02/28/2022 1:21:11 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: MAGA2017

Oh, so Russian like.


8 posted on 02/28/2022 1:22:45 PM PST by Toespi ( )
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“But if these were rainbow flags...”

That’s a good question.


9 posted on 02/28/2022 1:23:06 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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But if these were rainbow flags... ; Hang BLM flags and see if they’re removed.

So maybe someone in OR should hang one of these and see if they get removed.......

10 posted on 02/28/2022 1:23:40 PM PST by Mopp4 ("It is a cruel world, Herr Hauptman. You said it yourself.")
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“Lets hope the people in Oregon come to fully aware of WHO is leading them.”

I believe they know, and they like it.


11 posted on 02/28/2022 1:24:11 PM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: MAGA2017

Surprised they weren’t Hammer and Sickle flags???


12 posted on 02/28/2022 1:24:16 PM PST by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: MAGA2017

Defund the ODT...


13 posted on 02/28/2022 1:24:46 PM PST by Paladin2
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Sounds Like Operation Put Them Back Up is a Go!


14 posted on 02/28/2022 1:28:37 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: Mopp4

“So maybe someone in OR should hang one of these and see if they get removed....... “

This is actually a good idea, take video of putting it up as a test and video to see if it remains or is taken down. Same size flags. Don’t rant and rave, act angry or say nutty stuff, try to do it as if it were a Project Veritas test.


15 posted on 02/28/2022 1:31:27 PM PST by LouieFisk
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but if it was a blm flag ya’ll would be fine with it.


16 posted on 02/28/2022 1:39:51 PM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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What she said was: “When you attach it to an overpass we need to remove it because it’s a distraction for drivers.”

What she meant was: Once you leave your property on an overpass, we are free to remove it as having been abandoned. But if you stand there holding flags, we can’t interfere with your 1st amendment right to expression.

TBH, if they didn’t constantly remove signs off the overpasses they would quickly turn into trashy 3rd worldish billboards of tattered advertising banners.


17 posted on 02/28/2022 1:40:47 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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Correct on every point.


18 posted on 02/28/2022 1:44:59 PM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: MAGA2017

Removing American flags is the wrong thing to do.


19 posted on 02/28/2022 2:01:58 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: SAMWolf

Or rainbow flags


20 posted on 02/28/2022 2:03:05 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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