Hospital Supervisor Yanks Down ‘Offensive’ American Flag From Co-Worker’s Cubicle

"I find it very frightening because if I can't display my flag, what other freedoms will I lose before all is said and done."

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May 27, 2009 at 1:10 pm - KTVT-TV
Dateline: Forth Worth, TX
Other   May 27th, 2009 - 1:11 pm

They are both at fault.
The women shouldn’t have assumed that such a big flag is acceptable for the workplace.

The employer should have just reached a compromise, like a smaller flag.

Will   May 27th, 2009 - 1:16 pm

Kruschev,Marx and Stalin are spinning in their graves.They think this is hilarious .

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Lady liberty   May 27th, 2009 - 1:29 pm

What I find offensive is the tattered condition of the flag flying outside the hospital…
I don’t think it says in our constitution that we Americans have to kowtow to offended people over OUR FLAG…What spineless weasels!

Anne   May 27th, 2009 - 1:41 pm

As a Texan and an American I find this to be outrageous. The event was Memorial Day, a tribute to the sacrifice of our armed forces for our benefit and our right to display the flag of our country. You can bet this will not go unnoticed in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington area where Mansfield is located.

If this Afr*can does not like looking at an American flag on Memorial Day she should simply go back to the slime pit she left behind because it was not fit to live in and then emigrate to other country that won’t mind their national symbols being insulted on their special days to honor their people in service to their country. Frankly it does not say much for the other people in that office to allow this foreigner to remove the American Flag in the first place. NOT on my watch. Not without a fight.

As for me I would tell this arrogant POS refugee that if she ever touched anything that belonged to me again she would need a colonoscopy to find her GD Green Card.

Sandy   May 27th, 2009 - 1:54 pm

Backlash city! This hospital will rue the day it made such an idiotic decision

Anne   May 27th, 2009 - 1:55 pm

Perhaps you would like to comment directly to the hospital – -

Contact info for Kindred Hosp

Kindred Hospital – Mansfield
1802 Highway 157 North
Mansfield, TX 76063
Phone: (817) 473-6101
TX TDD/TTY# 800-735-2988
Fax: (817) 473-5538

jimw428   May 27th, 2009 - 1:57 pm

Anne said it best!

I’m also a Texan and equally outraged. This is one more example of how far down into the cesspool of political correctness we have descended. How long are we going to put with this crap and who the hell is running INS? We have enough disgruntled blacks who were born here, why do we need to import more?

If this stupid African woman is so offended by the American flag, she needs to pack up and go back to Africa.

I’ll pay for the ticket!

What Are We Coming To?   May 27th, 2009 - 1:59 pm

What a joke I must say. It sounds to me like the “lady” who complained had more motive than being offended. It seems like maybe she had something personal against the lady with the flag. Or maybe she discovered some BS loop hole that she could exploit in order to get some money out of a law suit if the flag wasn’t removed. Or maybe it was just out of spite plain and simple.

Personally the lady and whoever else complaining should of been dismissed because HELLO there is a flag flying outside the hospital!

I never thought I would ever hear this type of story in my country. But to be honest it doesn’t surprise me at all. An immigrant coming to a country to work and reap its benefits but yet being offended by its flag.
One word comes to mind: LEAVE!

I can’t wait to see the bleeding hearts who normally post to Breitbart try and defend the complainer.

Talen   May 27th, 2009 - 2:06 pm

Whoever this person is that is LIVING AND WORKING IN AMERICA, needs to get the F out of the country. You come here to live and work and take advantage of all this great nation has to offer and you can’t even allow a co-worker to hang a flag in their office?? You need to go.

I’m sick of all the parasites living here who hate our country. If you hate it, then leave, go find a better place to live.

RALLY CRY!!!   May 27th, 2009 - 2:11 pm

Anyone in near this town, near the county, etc. I beseech you all:

GET THE BIGGEST FLAGS YOU CAN, DO DOWN THERE FLY THEM HIGH AND PROTEST THIS SPINELESS HOSPITAL!!!

Trust me once this hospital sees it’s business decline and taking hit after hit on the news from around the nation, they’ll change their stance! Hit em where it hurts…their ‘bottom line’!

American Liberal   May 27th, 2009 - 2:16 pm

We are winning the war. You conservatives can no longer fly the American Flag. The new President Obama flag is coming soon. The red one with the black shadow of Obama on the front. America and conservatives are going down. You know it and I know it and there is nothing you can do about it.

Hey! My flag is bigger than your flag!   May 27th, 2009 - 2:38 pm

I guess I am more patriotic than you.

peter c   May 27th, 2009 - 3:09 pm

Hey “American Liberal”…you have the right to sit in Mommy’s cellar send hate out over the net because of the thousands of American Patriots who died fighting against those who would…and will…take that right from you.
What you consistently write here is truly sickening…but , you have that Right as an America…that’s if you are one.
Now you are working to take that Right away, not only from others who disagree with you…but also from yourself…if the Socialist Atheists like yourself complete their take over of our country as YOUR MESSIAH Obama is working hard to do even YOU will lose YOUR FREEDOM to express yourself if it’s not according to the PARTY LINE..
Our flag is loved throughout most of the world…Where Freedom rings…mostly because of our fighting Patriots who sacrificed to free them from terror regimes throughout our history as a nation.
This hospital should be put out of business until they retract this Un-American policy of anti-American left-Wing attacks on all things American.
And the immigrant who complained that the Flag offended him/her should be deported NOW!

bjaf   May 27th, 2009 - 3:51 pm

The supervisor should be fired especially if there was not a policy and/or procedures violation.

Marine   May 27th, 2009 - 3:52 pm

Without even seeing this place, I will bet a paycheck that the offended one has some representation of her homeland on display in her cubicle/office. But that’s okay because she is the minority and we must all conform our lives/beliefs to what they want…..utter BS. There are times to be PC and fluffy and there are other times to tell the offended to f-off and leave if they don’t like it. What is this hospital afraid of? A harrassment suit? A discrimination suit? On what grounds could this offended person sue? None….the hospital, in its attempt to satisfy one stupid employee, p-ed off all the rest….makes sense huh? If that was me, I would paint my truck to look like the American flag and wear red, white and blue clothes with stars to work everyday…f-em…out!

Semper Fi

Show Some COMMON SENSE   May 27th, 2009 - 3:55 pm

Quote from article: “McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Afri[k]a. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.”

1. Wow, what NERVE on the part of that AFRIKAN woman!!! Had assumed the Complainer was MEKSICAN–you know, one of those illegal aliens constantly waving around THEIR flag in our American faces and demand THEIR “rights” in OUR country! Someone needs to investigate that Afrikan to see what gives her the right to mess with someone else’s belongings.

2. WHY did this woman feel it necessary to have such a LARGE, 3′x5′ flag on display in her cubicle?!?! Good grief, you can purchase a nice, smaller flag for ONE DOLLAR at the Dollar Store! Would hold the same message but not be so “OFFENSIVE” to whoever finds it offensive.

3. WHATEVER happened to COMMON SENSE & COMPROMISE?!? Sounds like a PERSONALITY CONFLICT going on in those cubicles.

Folks, PLEASE, show some RESTRAINT & RESPECT for one another, our flag, and our country!

FASCIST CENSORS: STOP IT   May 27th, 2009 - 3:56 pm

Here we go again with those damned, dumb Breitbart CENSORS. We should NOT have to camouflage the word AFRI[k}AN in order to get our messages posted!

KNOCK IT OFF, YOU POLITICALLY CORRECT, FASCIST CENSORS!

Send Her AFRICAN AS! back to AFRICA!   May 27th, 2009 - 4:01 pm

Love America or GET THE HEL! OUT!

Show Some COMMON SENSE   May 27th, 2009 - 4:06 pm

Quote from article: “McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said that supervisor took down the flag herself.”

1. Wow, what NERVE on the part of that AFRICAN woman!!! Had assumed the Complainer was MEXICAN–you know, one of those illegal aliens constantly waving around THEIR flag in our American faces and demand THEIR “rights” in OUR country! Someone needs to investigate that African to see what gives her the right to mess with someone else’s belongings.

2. WHY did this woman feel it necessary to have such a LARGE, 3′x5′ flag on display in her cubicle?!?! Good grief, you can purchase a nice, smaller flag for ONE DOLLAR at the Dollar Store! Would hold the same message but not be so “OFFENSIVE” to whoever finds it offensive.

3. WHATEVER happened to COMMON SENSE & COMPROMISE?!? Sounds like a PERSONALITY CONFLICT going on in those cubicles.

Folks, PLEASE, show some RESTRAINT & RESPECT for one another, our flag, and our country!

Miles   May 27th, 2009 - 4:32 pm

I agree that it looks like there may have been a little intra-office angst going on here between the women. Still, a supervisor should be required to seek the more diplomatic less confrontational solution. (Perhaps a smaller flag would have been a workable compromise.)
The idea that an employee should be disciplined for displaying the American flag during Memorial Day is way over the PC top. Plus, it must be a PR disaster for the hospital both internally and externally.I would be very surprised if that supervisor hasn’t been the recipient of some pointed Human Resources consuling as a result

Don   May 27th, 2009 - 4:46 pm

American “Liberal”,

You are a racist and a bigot. Republicans do not have a monopoly on patriotism, no party does. If you truly believe Democrats are in favor of acts like this you are simply ignorant.

No one is going to defend the supervisor.

Rare Owner Of A Brain   May 27th, 2009 - 4:46 pm

God–you flag-defenders are pathetic stereotypes. I’m a proud American, and think that woman was DEAD wrong to hang that huge thing in the cubicle. Bravo to the hospital for making a brave, ballsy decision and telling her to take the stupid thing down. You racist flag-waving “Americans” should all be ashamed of yourselves.

olddog   May 27th, 2009 - 4:54 pm

Maybe she could have gotten away with a smaller flag, although I doubt it. Could this particular flag have had some significance to this woman? Maybe it was presented to her by the military, or a family member that served in the past?
I’ll be faxing a letter to Kindred Hospital and you can be assured it won’t be in support of their “policy”.

Tony   May 27th, 2009 - 5:40 pm

Please note that the story states… “The disagreement was over the size of the flag and not what it symbolized. We have invited the employee to put the flag back up.”

AS for typical leftist marxist “rare owner” I am afraid you got cheated. I would ask for my money back if I were you.

Laffing at Leftists   May 27th, 2009 - 6:07 pm

@Rare Owner Of A Brain nothing feeding you a 7.65mm couldn’t cure. Putz…

Ace   May 27th, 2009 - 6:07 pm

Maybe the old missus from Africa doesn’t like the USA since it was taken over by the Wacky Barracky of no fixed birth certificate.

Company wouldn’t talk to the TV but here’s what they had to say to the New York Stock Exchange

http://www.nyse.com/interface/jsp/NHDetail.jsp?RequestID=2&pageID=NewsHeadlines&sid=BW%2005/27%202627&isdowjones=false

The bigger the flag, the better I like it.

Ace   May 27th, 2009 - 6:11 pm

Maybe the old missus superdoop doesn’t like the USA since it was taken over by the Wacky Barracky of no fixed birth certificate.

Company wouldn’t talk to the TV but here’s what they had to say to the New York Stock Exchange

http://www.nyse.com/interface/jsp/NHDetail.jsp?RequestID=2&pageID=NewsHeadlines&sid=BW%2005/27%202627&isdowjones=false

The bigger the flag, the better I like it.

Anne   May 27th, 2009 - 6:14 pm

This story has hit the news and radio bigtime now in the DFW (Dallas Forth Worth) area. The story at the link by ACE above shows they are regretting this incident and I hope this goes a long way towards preventing a recurrence of it at other workplaces.
Of course the leftists posting here hate any reference to a flag that shows America is still a free country. The flag they love to post is the communist Cuba flag and even the old USSR communist flag can be seen on clothing.
Remember the Cuban flag and the big poster of Che Gueverra, Castro’s murderous cohort, that was plastered on the wall of a campaign office for The Big O before the election?

duncan   May 28th, 2009 - 12:49 am

Give us the name of the “offended one” & why excactly did she come here?

Larse   May 28th, 2009 - 2:02 am

Ok…

I was a genuine rootin tootin cubical cop once ;P

During the Iraq invasion and all…

One guy got drunk and started spray painting his cubical read white and blue… We called his emergency number so his folks could come take him home…. $3400 in damage and had to have the disaster specialist remove the materials and air the place out with big fans… Long story, but it was all cool in the end… DON’T F U the carpeting!!!

But trust me, patriotism can be “overdone”… We finally limited it all to “You can do as you wish to the interior of your cube without doing permanent damage to it.”

The old Russian engineer had his CCCP flag in his. To remind him why he loves NOT being there anymore…

We had the ‘dogs cheating at cards’ tapestry around our poker table :D We made the ‘conference room’ out of old cubicles of laid off folks late one night… Engineers, late at night, empty cubicles, with tools… :D :D :D

Folks seem to feel the need to “demonstrate” something at work. But they often are just P O ing everyone else off…

Dilbert don’t mean S to me :D :D :D

Larse   May 28th, 2009 - 2:47 am

I got modded :D

But look for my comment later on… I have been there, done that…

American Liberal   May 28th, 2009 - 3:05 pm

Don:
I guess you need to look at some of the posts here. It looks like a lot of people don’t like flying the American flag and I bet none of them are conservative.

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