topsy turvy much?

Original Associated Press Story

Hosted image of the wreath that is stirring up the trouble:


It looks like the warmongers felt that a peace symbol was meant to personally disparage them and their children serving gloriously in Iraq:

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Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs.

Other residents are just complete uneducated nimrods:

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[Kearns] said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan. Three or four residents complained, he said.

These are adult homeowners. How in the hell they don't know what a Peace Symbol is given its prevalent usage with the hippie movement in the sixties/seventies, as well as the ability to find it in just about any novelty or knick-knack shop is beyond me

Kearns then goes on to throw out a completely bullshit slippery slope argument:

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“Somebody could put up signs that say drop bombs on Iraq. If you let one go up you have to let them all go up,” he said in a telephone interview Sunday.

Removal of the 'offending' decoration requires an action by the Architectual Control Committee. The Committee, of course, is staffed by people with brains. Kearns solved this problem:

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Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn’t say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members.

This sounds like an absolutely wonderful, intellectual neighborhood to live in.

Jam it back in, in the dark.