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	<title>Comments on: Chinese Flag To Be Raised on White House Lawn</title>
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		<title>By: Roxanne Willoughby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roxanne Willoughby</dc:creator>
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		<description>In my quick research via the Internet I found the following: &#039;District of Columbia: prohibits, on U.S. Capitol Grounds, a flag designed to bring into public notice a party, organization or movement.&#039;  (See http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-law.html).

Granted, the U.S. Capitol and the White House are not synonymous.  However, one could consider Mao&#039;s gov&#039;t both a &quot;Party&quot; and a &quot;Movement&quot;!  Regardless of whether painting that brush stroke is accurate, I feel that displaying the flag of the People&#039;s Republic of China on the White House lawn is totally inappropriate.  Why would there be an anniversary party for the PRC&#039;s founding allowed on property that is so clearly a symbol of our own country&#039;s founding?  I submit that it is disrespectful to display a flag of any nation on US gov&#039;t properties, except on the occasion of a foreign head of state being present, and then only when the US flag is elevated above the flag of the visiting nation.  Call me &quot;old-fashioned&quot;, but we cannot allow the lines of sovereignty to be blurred.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my quick research via the Internet I found the following: &#8216;District of Columbia: prohibits, on U.S. Capitol Grounds, a flag designed to bring into public notice a party, organization or movement.&#8217;  (See <a href="http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-law.html)" rel="nofollow">http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-law.html)</a>.</p>
<p>Granted, the U.S. Capitol and the White House are not synonymous.  However, one could consider Mao&#8217;s gov&#8217;t both a &#8220;Party&#8221; and a &#8220;Movement&#8221;!  Regardless of whether painting that brush stroke is accurate, I feel that displaying the flag of the People&#8217;s Republic of China on the White House lawn is totally inappropriate.  Why would there be an anniversary party for the PRC&#8217;s founding allowed on property that is so clearly a symbol of our own country&#8217;s founding?  I submit that it is disrespectful to display a flag of any nation on US gov&#8217;t properties, except on the occasion of a foreign head of state being present, and then only when the US flag is elevated above the flag of the visiting nation.  Call me &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221;, but we cannot allow the lines of sovereignty to be blurred.</p>
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