Swastika Display Outside California Home Has Neighbors, Lawmakers Up In Arms.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man's display of poster-size swastikas outside his Sacramento house is upsetting some neighbors and state lawmakers, who plan to call on him to remove them.

The symbols used by German Nazis in World War II replace stars in one American and two Israeli flags. There is also a Palestinian flag and a statue made of wood of a figure raising its arms and dressed in army green. The display also includes Christmas lights to illuminate it at night.
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Freedom of speech or do you think he should be forced to take it down?

[Tradewind]

Nobody should be forced to take down shit, even if it's ignorant stupid shit. Besides it makes it easier to spot the village idiot.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Freedom is just fine but he doesn't live on a island and if the community he is apart of has a problem with it he should be forced to take it down short of some good reason to have it up.

[WskyDK]

Could this fall under hate speech? That's likely the route the local govt. will go

Edit: Suppose I should amend; I don't give two shits about this guy's flag.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Could this fall under hate speech? That's likely the route the local govt. will go

Why not the nazi flag is an enemy flag and should never be risen on American soil constituting treason the part if the person putting it up. I think that's the route I'd go.

[AeneasBK]

Why not the nazi flag is an enemy flag and should never be risen on American soil constituting treason the part if the person putting it up. I think that's the route I'd go.

You know we beat the Nazis in war, right?

[Tradewind]

I propose that if southern states (and various morons worldwide) can still prominently display the confederate flag, all other concerns should be ignored until that's corrected.

[Gourmandise]

I propose that if southern states (and various morons worldwide) can still prominently display the confederate flag, all other concerns should be ignored until that's corrected.

I never thought about that.
So that's why we haven't fixed debt and jazz, those filibustering Confederates up in D.C.

[Calfredd]

It's called "freedom of expression". What happened to "Je suis Charlie"? Oh wait, when we make statements and drawings that are offensive to muslims it's ok, when we do the same but which are offensive to jews and americans and even common sense, suddenly it becomes "Je ne suis pas Charlie".

Damn, that Charlie is one hypocritical motherfucker.

What are you talking about? Under the US's first amendment hate speech is not protected speech so if this falls under it, he may have to take it down.

[cFortyfive]

Somebody needs attention there.

What hate speech? It's a flag, no one called to violence against others, nor displayed banners calling to violence and unrest. It's a fucking flag.

Reminds me of that southpark episode.

[Charge me Doctor]

Definitely not a freedom of speech, he should have it inside, it's offensive material after all. The same reason you don't put KKK dressed mannequins on your yard

[Korgoth]

Should be free to put it up, though I'd look the other way if it gets torched after he leaves home.

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A shame the Nazis ruined the swastika forever.

[Charge me Doctor]

It's called "freedom of expression". What happened to "Je suis Charlie"? Oh wait, when we make statements and drawings that are offensive to muslims it's ok, when we do the same but which are offensive to jews and americans and even common sense, suddenly it becomes "Je ne suis pas Charlie".

Damn, that Charlie is one hypocritical motherfucker.

If he can prove that it's a caricature and put it in magazine instead of his window, then yes. No one have to see it except those who want to see it, and it would be fine, but he decided to show it off to the world instead

[Vokal]

What would Jesus do?

[Slant]

A shame the Nazis ruined the swastika forever.

You wouldn't even know it without the Nazis, so don't give us that bullshit line... :P

[Damerflinn]

No, unless he is part of some kind of home owners association there is no basis to make him remove it. There are ZERO laws that dictate what you can and can not decorate your own yard with.

While it is indecent, it is his own house and his own yard, don't like it, don't look at it. And it is not offensive material, anyone who has ever actually looked into it, knows that the swastika, as we call it now, is a Celtic symbol in origin which was appropriated by the Nazi party. Just because you disagree with his views, as I do, does not mean that we can force him to do as we wish him to and remove it. He has every right to decorate his yard as he wishes.

[Super Kami Dende]

This thread is rife with Naziphobia. You guys need to check your political ideology privilege.

But seriously, with freedom of Speech you can't pick and choose what freedom others choose regardless of how stupid it is

[Doctor Amadeus]

Except it's not even an enemy flag. It's a made-up flag of a non-existant faction, that happens to have a symbol that's not even specific to that former enemy faction.

Maybe not the Swastika in and of itself, but if this is a Nazi flag it sure the hell is an Enemy flag. which should not ever be flown over American Soil, and if this guys Swastika is being placed up, and he is a KNOWN Neo Nazi or white supremacist, he should be treated accordingly. The same as if it was an ISIS flag.

[Super Kami Dende]

You wouldn't even know it without the Nazis, so don't give us that bullshit line... :P

Considering its mass use in pictures and iconography throughout the years, I would say many people would still know what a swastika was regardless of Nazi's using it.

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Maybe not the Swastika in and of itself, but if this is a Nazi flag it sure the hell is an Enemy flag. which should not ever be flown over American Soil, and if this guys Swastika is being placed up, and he is a KNOWN Neo Nazi or white supremacist, he should be treating accordingly. The same as if it was an ISIS flag.

Comparing Nazi's to ISIS is a pretty big fallacy of your own there though.