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War on Peace

Regnad Kcin

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Subdivision Bans Wreath With Peace Sign

DENVER (Nov. 27) - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
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Story here.

The mind reels.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
Subdivision Bans Wreath With Peace Sign



Story here.

The mind reels.
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IIRC, that symbol began its life as "ban the bomb" in reference to Atomic weapons. That isn't "peace" so much as prevention. Homeowners associations are infamous for their petty tyranny. I find the complaint that some have soldiers as relatives a curious juxtaposition of facts, as most soldiers I know are pretty strong on free speech.

This seems a bit contrived, as if someone is out looking for trouble. Not having a copy of the covenants of their home owners' association in front of me, I have no idea which clause would have been violated.

ETA: I had forgotten the nautical origin of the symbol.

DR
 
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Maybe they mistook the peace sign with the anarchist sign.

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I wonder what they'd try to do if she put an actual pentacle wreath up? Would they be crazy enough to object to certain religons symbols and not others? Or would they ban all holiday displays entirely just to spite her?

Hmm. I just gave myself an idea for a genuine Xmas holiday craft project.
 
Apparently there was such a problem with homeowner's associations banning the display of the US flag that they had to pass a bill on it:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-42

What do you get when you give a group of individualls who normally have little to no power a miniscule level of control over the lives of others? A homeowner's association.
 
Nothing like a public shaming to get a bunch of cretins to act like decent human beings.

I'm glad they found their christian values of peace and understanding.
 
KingMerv00 said:
Update:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/28/peace.wreath.ap/index.html

Seems the homeowners association backed off.
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I'm not a fan of this resolution if all it means (as it appears) is that the HOA is simply not enforcing their rule in this instance.

I am a fan of enforcing stupid rules until they are changed, not until they are excepted.

When I lived in Denver, some years back, there was a hubbub in Boulder over a no-smoking-in-public law. A theatre was producing Grand Hotel, iirc, in which smoking in one particular scene is integral to the story. One character, one cigarette, one scene.

The theatre installed a new ventilation system above the stage. It announced in all its flyers that there would be smoking during the play. It offered every patron a refund at any time up until curtain.

Yet on opening night, someone in the audience complained, and the city decided to shut the show down. Public outcries followed and the city relented, granting one exception.

I disagreed. They should have shut them down and let people realize how little the lawmakers think through their legislation. Force them to do some real work and either repeal the law entirely or rewrite it to allow legal exceptions.

In the OP's case, if the HOA states that no such decorations are allowed, then stick to it or repeal it.
 
Bandersnatch said:
I've seen the peace symbol referenced by fundies as evil before. Scroll down this link and it gives you the "history."


Nero's Cross
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Please see the link in my first reply on the origin of the Ban the Bomb symbol. It's similarity to "Nero's Cross" is at best coincidental. I smell a bit of CT on your link.

DR
 
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