First of all ... There exists a government "homeowner association" in Virginia? A Common Interest Community Ombudsman? Uh?
Most private homeowner associations are dumb enough, but bring in the government and you're dealing with the mafia. Who uses "any means necessary."
The sweet old man in the picture to your right, Col. Van T. Barfoot, is being forced by the mafia government to tear down the flagpole in his yard.
Now, I do appreciate the outrage about a "veteran" being forced to take down an "American" flag, but the truth is, this whole thing is a lot simpler.
Both the land and the flagpole belong to Barfoot. They are his property. Case closed.
I don't care if it were a pirate's flag he's flying. He isn't violating anybody's rights, therefore nobody gets to tell him what to do.
Do we still live in America?
A badge of shame for the Commonwealth of Virginia
Col. Van T. Barfoot, a local Medal of Honor winner, is under the gun from his Henrico County community's homeowner association.
In a five-paragraph letter to Barfoot that he received yesterday, Barfoot is being ordered to remove a flagpole from his yard. The decorated veteran of three wars, now 90 years old, raises the American flag every morning on the pole, then lowers and folds the flag at dusk each day in a three-corner military fashion.
The flagpole isn't the problem. Clearly they need to remove the board members instead.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ordered to Remove Flagpole
What is the world coming to when a 90 year old Medal of Honor recipient from World War II can't raise his American flag because some asinine neighborhood association has "aesthetic issues" with his flagpole?
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Barfoot received a letter yesterday that orders him to remove a flagpole from his yard. Every morning he raises the American flag but this somehow offends the board of directors of the Sussex Square community where he lives. Barfoot's daughter says there is no provision in the rules that says he can't have a flagpole, but it was ordered removed anyway. It seems that the association prefers short flagpoles fixed to your house instead.
