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Title: Air Force action 'entirely inappropriate'
Source: One News Now
URL Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com/national- ... -action-entirely-inappropriate
Published: Feb 13, 2015
Author: Chad Groening
Post Date: 2015-02-13 14:42:54 by redleghunter
Ping List: *Military or Vets Affairs*     Subscribe to *Military or Vets Affairs*
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A conservative military watchdog says it was completely inappropriate for an Air Force commander to allow the display of a hybrid flag that advances the radical LGBT political agenda on base.

Writing for The Blaze, former Senior Airman Brian Kolfage accounts that he was driving through Davis Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson when he saw an American flag with rainbow stripes, instead of red and white stripes, flying high on a two-story house.

Kolfage complained to base officials that that flag violates a section of Title 4 that states the American flag "shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."

But several days after his complaint, the installation commander ruled that the flag does not violate federal law and can remain flying.

Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), thinks the decision was made to accommodate a political agenda.

"This was exhibitionism of a political point of view. It was entirely inappropriate," she exclaims. "Other forms of political expression on a military base also are ruled out, so for the Air Force to make an exception for the sake of a flag that is the hybrid of the American flag -- and the LGBT flag is inappropriate itself -- but to allow that display on a military base, the Air Force authorities who made that decision should be held accountable, because they are the ones who are out of line here."

Donnelly concludes that this incident is a consequence of Barack Obama's imposition of LGBT law on the American military. Subscribe to *Military or Vets Affairs*

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#3. To: redleghunter (#0)

[Article] Kolfage complained to base officials that that flag violates a section of Title 4 that states the American flag "shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."

But several days after his complaint, the installation commander ruled that the flag does not violate federal law and can remain flying.

Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), thinks the decision was made to accommodate a political agenda.

Senior Airman Kolfage and CMR President Donnelly are wrong and the installation commander did what the law required. The First Amendment protects unpopular forms of expression, including this one. The complainants reliance on Title 4 for enforcement action is unfounded.

https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30243.pdf

Congressional Research Service Report for Congress

The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions

Updated April 14, 2008

John R. Luckey
Legislative Attorney
American Law Division

Order Code RL30243

Excerpt from introductory summary, unnumbered page

This report presents, verbatim, the United States “Flag Code” as found in Title 4 of the United States Code and the section of Title 36 which designates the Star- Spangled Banner as the national anthem and provides instructions on how to display the flag during its rendition. The “Flag Code” includes instruction and rules on such topics as the pledge of allegiance, display and use of the flag by civilians, time and occasions for display, position and manner of display, and how to show respect for the flag. The “Code” also grants to the President the authority to modify the rules governing the flag.

Excerpt at 1: [footnotes omitted, emphasis added]

On the national level the Federal Flag Code provides uniform guidelines for the display of and respect shown to the flag. In addition to the Code, Congress has by statute designated the national anthem and set out the proper conduct during its presentation. The Code is designed “for the use of such civilian groups or organizations as may not be required to conform with regulations promulgated by one or more executive departments” of the federal government. Thus, the Flag Code does not prescribe any penalties for non-compliance nor does it include enforcement provisions; rather the Code functions simply as a guide to be voluntarily followed by civilians and civilian groups.

Excerpt at 2: [footnotes omitted, emphasis added]

In addition to the Flag Code, a separate provision contained in the Federal Criminal Code established criminal penalties for certain treatment of the flag. Prior to 1989, this provision provided criminal penalties for certain acts of desecration to the flag. In response to the Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson (which held that anti-desecration statutes are unconstitutional if aimed at suppressing one type of expression), Congress enacted the Flag Protection Act of 1989 to provide criminal penalties for certain acts which violate the physical integrity of the flag. This law imposed a fine and/or up to one year in prison for knowingly mutilating, defacing, physically defiling, maintaining on the floor, or trampling upon any flag of the United States. In 1990, however, the Supreme Court held that the Flag Protection Act was unconstitutional as applied to a burning of the flag in a public protest.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-02-13   17:08:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: nolu chan (#3)

Senior Airman Kolfage and CMR President Donnelly are wrong and the installation commander did what the law required. The First Amendment protects unpopular forms of expression, including this one. The complainants reliance on Title 4 for enforcement action is unfounded.

Wrong. Military members have no 1st Amendment rights while on base,or right to display any political opinion on base housing.

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-13   18:34:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: sneakypete (#13)

Wrong. Military members have no 1st Amendment rights while on base, or right to display any political opinion on base housing.

You forgot the citation to case law. Most emphatically, military have 1st Amendment rights on and off base.

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#20. To: nolu chan (#17)

Most emphatically, military have 1st Amendment rights on and off base.

But they had better be damn well careful about exercising them.

tpaine  posted on  2015-02-13   21:49:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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