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Little Boxes on a Hilltop
You gotta love the Orwellian control homeowners’ associations have over their minions. The latest comes from Colorado, where a subdivision has attempted to ban a woman from hanging a Christmas wreath on her door, threatening her with a $25 a day fine. The problem: The wreath bears a peace sign, which many of the subdivision’s residents feel is either an anti-Iraq war protest and/or a sign of the Devil.
“Somebody could put up signs that say drop bombs on Iraq. If you let one go up you have to let them all go up,” [Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs] said in a telephone interview Sunday.Lisa Jensen said she wasn’t thinking of the war when she hung the wreath. She said, “Peace is way bigger than not being at war. This is a spiritual thing.”
Jensen, a past association president, calculates the fines will cost her about $1,000, and doubts they will be able to make her pay. But she said she’s not going to take it down until after Christmas.
“Now that it has come to this I feel I can’t get bullied,” she said. “What if they don’t like my Santa Claus.”
The association in this 200-home subdivision 270 miles southwest of Denver has sent a letter to her saying that residents were offended by the sign and the board “will not allow signs, flags etc. that can be considered divisive.”
Who knew that peace signs could be considered “divisive”? The next thing you know, some town will make it illegal to fly a foreign flag—unless an American flag is flown above it.
