Oregon Business Owner Ordered to Remove American Flag Mural on Private Property

PJ Media ^ | December 31, 2021 | Jeff Reynolds

[KarlInOhio]

But if St. Banksy had tagged that same wall it would probably be illegal for the owner to paint over it.

[taxesareforever]

Salem. City of witches?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Obozo or George Floyd murals would have been A-OK.

[Fai Mao]

At some point, someone needs to ask these cretanous city councils if they’ll take payment in lead?

[Flick Lives]

If there is enough blowback, these douche knuckles on the city council will back down and claim it was all a misunderstanding.

[leaning conservative]

Same here.

[MAGA2017]

But a George Floyd mural would be OK?

[lp boonie]

That is a beautiful piece of work. Salem must be a real schitt hole if this art is a problem.

[Chode]

tell them it’s NOT art!!!

[frank ballenger]

Public tax money has been used to have public paid workers paint BLM and slogans on city streets.

Granite Ten Commandments signs over public buildings were taken down by workmen.

In a K-12 school in some city the Arab immigrant children told their parents the American flags in the public school building made them “nervous.” They were ordered removed.

A looted and burned Target in Minnesota had a big mural commissioned on its site to glorify marchers with signs a big portrait of George Floyd and a BLM slogan along with “We are all in this together. We are with you.—Target.”

[frank ballenger]

Our veterans sacrificed so much with the thought “what we give up is for the good cause of protecting and defending our great free country and her people back home.”

Now that is forgotten by some and dishonored deliberately by many.

This must stop.

[Carriage Hill]

The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft bronze statue of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

[Mr.Unique]

So I took a look at their code.

So I took a look at their code.

Fixed.

[Rowdyone]

According to the dictionary signs are used to convey information or instructions. This mural appears to do nothing more than pay tribute to those erecting the national flag.

[frnewsjunkie]

That would be the hill to do battle over!

[Aria]

Oregon has become a shithole.

[lightman]

Poliitcal speech is the most highly protected by the First Amendment.

The storeowner will be able to own much of Salem.

They will loose, bigly.

[Pirate Ragnar]

A mural is not a sign. Beyone the illegal city code, there is no legal authority to stop it. Probably many lawyers would be happy to sue the shitty council.

[reg45]

They probably consider the American Legion to be a terrorist organization.

[Retain Mike]

I sent the city council members the following email. If it becomes an embarrassment to them throughout the country, they might reconsider.

Here is the link: www.cityofsalem.net/Pages/contact-a-city-councilor.aspx

Removing American Flag Mural

This Star-Spangled Banner provides the majestic, revered the essence of our country and the freedoms it represents. The flag raising at Iwo Jima represents the magnificent, martial achievements of the Greatest Generation now all but gone. Asking the mural to be removed will be seen nationwide as an imbecilic and degrading action. Find a way out.