Pelosi Censors Poster Honoring Fallen Soldiers in House Office Building.....

But don't, under any circumstances, question patriotism......she loves America, except for the people who fight and die for it.....

......The tale of Pelosi's folly begins with Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C. He wished to pay tribute to the service members of Camp Lejeune who had been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Accordingly, Walter placed a poster flat against the wall in the corridor outside his office showing their names and pictures.

It was altogether fitting that Jones saluted the fallen soldiers on congressional premises. Congress authorized the wars that occasioned their tragic deaths. Congress appropriated the money that dispatched them to mortal danger. The posters communicated to congressional visitors that war is a combination of heroism and hell. Voters would leave with more informed judgments about the costs of the twin wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was no tension between Jones' wall poster and the ordinary use of the House Rayburn Office Building to host direct communications between Members of the House and the public. On one occasion, for instance, a mother from Minnesota entered Jones' office with tears in her eyes to thank him for displaying the picture of her son who had been killed while serving the nation.

Speaker Pelosi apparently took umbrage.Under federal law, she is empowered to issue and enforce rules and regulations governing the use of the House office buildings. A 1999 rule prohibits "displaying any flag, banner, or device designed or adapted to bring into public notice any person, party, organization or movement..." On April 17, Pelosi issued a sister hallway policy to improve compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act by restricting "the display of flags and the placing or storing of any items within a hallway exit access, exit or stairwell of the House Office Buildings."

On Aug. 2, the architect of the Capitol removed Jones' name and picture poster from the Rayburn Office Building wall. Borrowing a page from Humpty Dumpty in "Through the Looking Glass," the removal notice insisted that the poster violated the hallway policy, although it was neither a flag nor a stored item within a hallway. The architect also hinted that the wall poster constituted a "flag, banner, or device" prohibited by the 1999 rule, although no one associates any of those nouns with a wall poster.

Displaying homage to fallen soldiers constitutes core political speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has routinely invalidated unreasonable restrictions on the use of government property for speech purposes. And as applied to the wall poster, the hallway policy amounts to censorship for the sake of censorship.

Irrespective of free speech, the prospect of losing the veterans' vote in November should concentrate Pelosi's mind on honoring the right of all members of Congress to display wall posters in House office buildings commemorating those who died in furthering wars that Pelosi has voted to fund.

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Comments

[Last Angry Man]

"You..."

I would elaborate, but I'd get my ass banned.

[skh.pcola]

Surely this surprises nobody here. If Obamadoosh gets elected, he'll probably remove any flags from the capital and hoist Che banners in their place.

[Last Angry Man]

Pelosi and ilk already think all Veterans are baby-killers and morons. This isn't any stretch of the imagination, and neither is Barry Hussein doing similar.

[Peeved Guy]

If that poster had said 'No blood for oil', I'll bet she would have been A-OK with it.

[Last Angry Man]

What a little non-entity she is, yearning for notice by way of her petty little spiteful acts. That this Republic has descended to small toads such as her as holders of high office. I know people who got bad-conduct discharges who are more honorable than she is. Hell, I know people who served jail terms who possess more morals than she has in her shrunken little twisted dwarf liberal carcass.

I swear to God, we either get a handle on these lunatics, or we will witness the end of our nation in our lifetimes.

["Islamophobia"=BS]

Pictures of Pelosi's ugly puss need to be censored. It would best be displayed on bottles of ipicac for obvious reasons.

[pulsar182]

don't forget ....Pelosi is 3rd in line from being President...now that is a scarey thing to ponder.

[Elric66]

Hopefully CIndy wins