Thread: Foreign Flag Must be Removed

I wish we could ban foreign flags on vehicles. This is just one example how Quebec is protecting its French Canadian culture.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2 ... 69786.html
By THE CANADIAN PRESS


MONTREAL - A Quebec superior court told Theodore Antonopoulos last week that he had to remove the large Greek flag painted on his garage door.

But the Montreal resident is considering appealing the decision.

"I'll speak with my lawyer and see what's involved time-wise, money-wise," Antonopoulos said in a phone interview.

It's been more than four years since Antonopoulos painted the blue-and-white flag on the garage door of his Montreal area home in a fit of patriotic fervour during the 2004 European soccer championships.

Greece had just won a surprising victory over host Portugal.



Antonopoulos was fined $138 by the Montreal borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro when an inspector turned up after a neighbour's complaint and ordered it removed.

He contested the fine at the municipal court but lost in 2007.

He then hired Montreal human rights lawyer Julius Grey, who argued that the bylaw involved was illegal because it infringed on Antonopoulos' right to freedom of expression.

But in her ruling, Superior Court judge France Charbonneau wrote that the municipality had the right to set uniform standards within its jurisdiction and upheld the bylaw, which prohibits residents from installing a sign that is painted or reproduced on a building or a fence.

Antonopoulos said he is disappointed in the ruling.

And despite the flap, the flag is still there.

"I'm not sick of it at all," he said.

Good. I know here there is a problem in one town where there's like one street of Mexican business owners, flying the Mexican flag. No American flags or at the best, flying it below the Mexican flag. Not sitting very well with the community. That's not freedom of speech to me....it's blatent disrespect for this country. There's being proud and then there's down right rude. Try flying a UofI flag in Husker territory. LOL They're tiny little decorative flags and people frown on that. (Kidding) Or Bears with Vikings close by. You can quickly get the cold shoulder and glaring glances from your neighbors if you do. Not to mention some beer bottles tossed in your yard. And that's just friendly sports. I mean be proud.....but do it with some class and consideration.

Just fly the I.C.E. flag