Moran in Pittsburgh PA area Flies Soviet Flag to Protest Obama

Inauguration day was a sad time for Scott Rice.

Rice, who backed the McCain/Palin ticket, said he knew President Obama would try to change America into "a society based on socialist principles." So he walked outside his Mt. Lebanon house that chilly morning, lowered an American flag flying from a pole in his front yard, and raised a different flag — bearing a hammer and sickle.

"I always had the Stars and Stripes up," said Rice, 51, a rental property manager and Army veteran, at his Cochran Road home. "It hurt me to take that down."

To this day, the red and yellow Soviet-era flag flies in its place along busy Cochran Road, traveled by nearly 11,300 motorists each day. The flag, he said, is a symbol of his displeasure with the Obama administration's plans for the country.

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Scott Rice considers himself a patriot. He said he loves America so much that he isn't sure he can stomach the changes he fears are coming.

"For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American," he said, adding that he is considering renouncing his citizenship and moving overseas.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_640641.html


Scott Rice sits in the front yard of his Mt. Lebanon home Thursday with his son, Ryan. Rice describes himself as an American patriot so incensed with the "socialist" direction our nation is taking that he erected the Soviet flag on inauguration day.

Move Moran and good riddance!

NOT!

ONE WAY TICKET!

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and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church, and I ain't even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife."

"You may not know it but this man is a spy.
He's a undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!"

That's a fairly sane community.

I hesitate to say that that equals insanity, but...

Everyone I know from Mt. Lebanon is a Democrat.

My stepfather used to fume at the reference to "Marxist Rebels" the news media would use to describe any groups in Central or South America who were trying to overthrow despotic regimes. He would say that the media reporters didn't know what "Marxism" was and he doubted that the freedom fighters were really "Marxists."

So this isn't based on any sort of evidence or fact.

i also wonder what conservative paradise he expects to find overseas...

Moran probably thinks the whole world speaks English.

:rofl::rofl:

a generation or two ago, this freedumb-lovin' 'merikan probably would have shot on sight anyone in his neighborhood flying the hammer and sickle...now he is ordering them by the gross (and who still makes those, anyway?)...he is promoting the very thing he claims to despise...

That could be considered socialist other than pushing health care that would have a public option that you wouldn't have to choose if you didn't want to?

TlalocW

pointing out the obvious!! :sarcasm:

The Change that dimbleweed is protesting is that we have a B-L-A-C-K president.

thinks Obama has nationalized the banks and housing, but then is upset that some people consider him to be uninformed.

:hurts:

dude, wtf?

what was he doing with a soviet flag in the first place?

what a maroon © bugs bunny

"Now, I'm not a smart man," Rice said.

Where does he want to go?

Why do we let them abuse that word???

I think I've discovered a flaw in your plan, pal.

You should? Okay, I'll get my paint tin.

Hey, he can do it if he wants. He's free to do so.

It's possibly one of the most misdirected statements one could do. He could fly his American flag upside down if he wanted. That would perhaps show his displeasure more.

He needs treatment and needs to get back on his meds. That's my assessment.

Maybe Rice didn't want to imitate him.

A Pulaski Township man who was protesting the election of Barack Obama by flying his American flag upside down is upset after someone stole it.

Larry DeBaker decided to fly his flag upside down because he says he's worried about the country's direction.

"I had my doubts on whether it was right or wrong, you know, but through the experience of it all, I'm sorry as an American I find that it's crazy that if you express your opinion," he said.

He says he's gotten phone calls from dozens of people who are both for and against his protest.

"I think it's disrespectful to the flag and to the country – I think he could have found a better way to protest if he wanted to," an area resident tells KDKA.

DeBaker says his protest was not meant to be unpatriotic; and he says he plans to put another flag upside down.

DeBaker tells KDKA he intends to keep it that way until Obama's inauguration and then will lower it until he's out of office.

http://kdka.com/local/Upside.down.flag.2.862167.html

for him to call home.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0

That makes about as much sense as this guy. Rwers....no one ever said they were smart.

Another generation of bigots is born... :(

:sarcasm:

:rofl:

That he wants to give up his citizenship and move out of the country he professes to love because HIS choice for president didn't win.

Patriot my ass.....

He's no Barbara Fritchie, that's for sure.

I'd rather deal with the hicks down in the sticks down south a bit, at Peechins than those folks.

What other country wants his ass? Does he think there are no restrictions? Or that any country would be glad to have him?

but because they're all white, he'll see this as OK.

Like the woman who wanted to run to Britain because Obama won. It won't be much longer until they have a black or Arab PM, so I'd love the look on her face when it happens.

:hi: Don't let the doorknob hit ya...etc. etc.

he is a communist sympathizer?