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2009-07-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

Dispute over flag protest erupts in Wisc. village

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Posted by gorb 2009-07-11 03:29|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Good luck with your liquor license, resturant, and life in that small town dipshi*. You belong down in Madison with the other nuts.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-11 06:01|| 2009-07-11 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 What kind of moron drops $200,000 on supper club renovations without having the liquor license in his pocket?

That said, the DA was nuts to tell the cops to take Congine's property. He's gonna lose his job over this one.

Stupidity abounds.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-07-11 08:32|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-07-11 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 He might get by in Milwaukee's upper east side, too.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-07-11 08:35|| 2009-07-11 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry, but since flying the flag upside down is an internationally known symbol of distress, it is a public disturbance because decent citizens will call into emergency services to tell them someone is in distress, which if nothing else, wastes time. I don't blame the cops for taking it down on the 4th of July, a day that is filled with emergency calls.

Posted by Penguin 2009-07-11 10:02|| 2009-07-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Parabellum called it. Chances are he'd be flying it upside down when he went outta business in about a year.

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-11 11:51|| 2009-07-11 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 The city will argue his safety was at risk for disrespect. Besides, who now would go there, certainly not me or anyone I know.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-07-11 12:10|| 2009-07-11 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 The local law should beat him around the kidneys with a rubber hose while the fireworks were going. Pissing blood for a month would have made him a better person.

Posted by .5MT 2009-07-11 14:58|| 2009-07-11 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry, but since flying the flag upside down is an internationally known symbol of distress...

On a ship or a besieged fort, yes. In this case, it's an internationally known symbol of a crank. There's a house near me that has four state flags flown upside-down. I think they're supposed to be the boundary markers for the Sovereign Republic of Lolostan, but I can't be sure. Should I call the cops, just in case this guy's in permanent distress? Seriously, he's in such trouble he can't dial 911 or put a big HELP! sign in the window, but he can go out and turn the flag upside-down?

Guy has a right to be a jackass on his own property. People have a right to boycott his business in indignation. Cops have no right to enter and seize property for this reason.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2009-07-11 20:42|| 2009-07-11 20:42|| Front Page Top

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