Michigan man taunts neighbors with Confederate flag and nooses outside home

[Captain Obvious]

Here's a reason why I moved away from everyone, people just suck.

These people should not be voting and should not have the same level of freedoms and liberties that the rest of us do. We should enslave them and make them dig ditches or make big macs or something.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/scre...-outside-home/

A Michigan tree trimmer and one of his employees set up a display featuring a Confederate flag and a pair of nooses – and they don’t care about neighbor complaints.

Neighbors complained about the display outside Robert Tomanovich’s home in Livonia, where he hung a noose from a tree and a Confederate flag, printed with the slogan “I ain’t coming down,” on a fence, reported WXYZ-TV.

After the complaints, a second noose was hung from a tree outside a second home Tomanovich owns down the street and used for his business, Robert’s Discount Tree Service.

“It’s a tree that is easily climbable,” said neighbor Nicole Behrendt. “Any kid could climb the tree and hang himself.”

Tomanovich fled inside his home when a WXYZ-TV reporter asked him for comment, but one of his employees admitted to hanging the second noose in response to the neighbor complaints.

“I love it,” said the employee, who displayed a Confederate flag license plate on his work pickup truck. “Screw ‘em.”

[Polecat]

The first amendment is a lot like the second amendment. The rights being protected can always be misused by those that lack the maturity to handle freedoms.

[Mac-7]

Is the Confederate flag so terrible?

[PolWatch]

Just because a person has the right to do something, doesn't mean its right to do so. Maybe his neighbors can hang an SS flag (if there is such a thing) and build a crematorium on their property.

[The Xl]

Lol at some of humanity

[Mister D]

Just because a person has the right to do something, doesn't mean its right to do so. Maybe his neighbors can hang an SS flag (if there is such a thing) and build a crematorium on their property.

There is, actually. It's mancave material. Not for public display.

[The Xl]

Is the Confederate flag so terrible?

It might be the confederate flag in conjunction with the $#@!ing noose.

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[midcan5]

We were recently traveling in the south where you still see the flag displayed. Listening to some of the conversations makes one wonder if education is still practiced down there? North and South Carolina and Florida just bemuse me. My wife too, who is apolitical. You feel like you are in Dumbville, courtesy of Fox and right wing media. By the way Fox was often on in places we stayed. I listened one day to two men discussing global weather change, the stupidity was too deep to even convey. So then why would this man display a flag that represents everything America is not about. Any need to spell it out.

http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post568697

"But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;" while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new. True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers. Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave trade; some for a Congressional Slave-Code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit Slavery within their limits; some for maintaining Slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the "gur-reat pur-rinciple" that "if one man would enslave another, no third man should object," fantastically called "Popular Sovereignty;" but never a man among you is in favor of federal prohibition of slavery in federal territories, according to the practice of "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live." Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which our Government originated. Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge or destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations." Abraham Lincoln http://showcase.netins.net/web/creat...hes/cooper.htm

[Safety]

It might be the confederate flag in conjunction with the $#@!ing noose.

You're trolling right? Tell me you're trolling

You should know better.

[Ravens Fan]

That's the downside of that pesky "Freedom of Speech" thingy. It is on his property and is within his rights to display it. No one has the right to not be offended.

That said, I would hope that this guy's community will make sure his business suffers, and maybe a "friendly" neighbor could change his mind about the display, but the government should stay out of it.