WND – by Bob UnruhA California city has decided that for at least one day, the flag of communist China will get equal time with the “Star-Spangled Banner” flying “o’er the land of the free.”
Despite the objections of residents and human rights groups, the city council of San Leandro, Calif., decided in a 4-3 vote to fly the flag over its city hall Oct. 1 to honor “the formation of the sovereign state in 1949 by communist leader Mao Zedong,” the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Councilman Benny Lee explained he wanted to provide a sign of support for the city’s Chinese residents and signal that the city is open for Chinese business and investments.
Lee was joined in the vote by council members Ursula Reed, Diana Souza and Jim Prola.
“Raising the flag gives us the opportunity to show the openness to the people of China, the business people of China, to show that we welcome that investment and we welcome the prosperity,” Lee said, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
A number of Tibetan organizations opposed the vote, according to the San Jose paper, including Tashi Kungo of the Tibetan Association of Northern California, who charged the flag is “stained with the blood of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Chinese.”
Arlene Lum of the Asian Community Cultural Association, however, supported the council’s decision. She insisted it reflects a welcome to the Chinese population in San Leandro and an open door to Chinese money.
The San Leandro Patch reported that a petition is being promoted that condemns the plan.
The San Leandro school board showed its opposition to the council’s decision by voting to move its meeting away from city hall on the day the Chinese flag will fly there, according to KGO-TV in San Francisco.
The station reported flags from China already fly in San Francisco but said the decision to raise it over city hall in San Leandro for one day has riled human rights activists.
Blogger Greg Autry – a senior economist with the American Jobs Alliance and co-author of “Death by China?” – charged the city council has been “corrupted by the lure of Chinese money.”
He noted Oct. 1 “celebrates the conquest of China by Mao’s brutal communist forces in 1949 and the establishment of a regime that has killed more people than any other on Earth.”
“Apparently ‘partnering’ with these sort of criminals is what San Leandro wants to be known for,” Autry said.
He called for boycott of San Leandro and a demonstration there Oct. 1.
“Bring your own food and fill up your gas tank before you enter town. Never do any business in or with a San Leandro firm,” he said.
The Chinese flag, Autry argued, symbolizes the “inferior position” of the Chinese people, represented by the small stars, to the Communist Party and the “overall dominance of communism,” symbolized by the red background.
He said the decision insults Korean veterans who fought Chinese forces and Tibetans “who are watching their country be systematically dismantled and their people abused under Beijing’s colonial ambitions.”
Vietnamese Americans, he added, “had their country overrun and stolen by communist forces.
He also called it an insult to the members of the Falun Gong sect have been “executed so their organs and bodies could be sold for profit,” Christians “whose churches have been demolished and the millions of unemployed Americans whose jobs have been sucked up by the Chinese behemoth.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/chinas-flag-to-wave-oer-land-of-the-free/#LAFW4Y7ekpFFF9LK.99
Fits these commies perfectly…”California’s got the most of em`…boy they got a host of `em.”…-Frank Zappa -Flakes
Bizarre …. hasn’t this city council got better things to do
with their time than to spend one ounce of energy ….ON THIS?
Is there any doubt remaining that California is riddled with communists? Hell, the whole country for that matter, at the leadership level, and I use the word “leader” very loosely. Disgusts the shit out of me. Kommieforniacation.
The pink-o’s in the state of
“commie-fornication” fly their true colors.
Yet another travasty of impropriety out in CommieCal.
How the hell does an American city fly a friggen chink flag? Why don’t we just carve Mao’s face into Mt. Rushmore?
No shit. This is insanity!
WOW! That’s like having the Mexican flags being flown in the state of Texas, which they have at many Mexican-owned car sale places here. I have half a mind to come back at night and rip them to shreds.
Do the people of this country even know what a flag stands for? I’m sorry, but I was in China for 5 years and I have NEVER EVER seen an American flag or any other country flag being flown over there other than at an embassy. That’s it! The same goes for Singapore, Japan, Indonesia and Taiwan where I have visited and lived at.
This is BULLSHIT!! It has nothing to do with this multicultural bullshit! THIS IS AMERICA! Tell the people to riddle it with bullet holes.
Just the other day, I saw this asshole Mexican with his shirt off running up an exit ramp in the city of Austin with a huge Mexican flag as though he were Mel Gibson trying to hold the line with the American flag in the movie, “The Patriot”. I wanted to put my car in reverse, back up the highway and drive right up the exit ramp and right over him.
This shit has to end. Flags are to celebrate the country that you are in. Not some other country. If you have another country’s flag, that is treasonous and shows that you have just let the other country conquer you and lay claim to that land. What the hell is a matter with those people? GROW UP!! Put some bullet holes in that flag and end it or burn it to the ground. This is America! Be proud of it and respect it or get the F**K OUT!
Saws-all the dam pole down if they are not going to use it for its rightful purpose that being only old glory.
I know how it is NC, as a fellow Texan who has lived in Austin & Georgetown recently, now in the Houston area, I have seen way to many mezcan flags flying throughout the years, as there should be none.
MOLON LABE
The 4 councilman that voted for this BS should be recalled. i would bet the Feds last dollar (lol) that if the council tried this BS in 1942 they would have rightly been tried for treason. Just saying…