Reason number 1371 that Homeowners Associations are evil.
This is a story of the time an HOA tried to tell a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Retired Army Colonel Van T. Barfoot, that he could not fly the American flag in front of his home. It was a bad move.
This is it. This is a trifecta video where I finally get to talk about the military while simultaneously bashing on Karen's and HOAs all at the same time.
I particularly like the description of HOAs as "Diet Communism."
A homeowners association, which if you don't know is basically diet communism. It's where a bunch of people build some nice houses, then they get together and they're like...Hey, we got all these nice houses, you know what we need. More government. We've got federal, state, county, Municipal. It's not enough. We need even more rules. We should come together, designate a tribunal of Elder Karens to make all the important decisions for us.
This is Fat Electrician's video WW2 Veteran vs. HOA - Van T. Barfoot
Until one day in December of 2009 when at 90 years old he would open a letter informing him he was not allowed to fly the American flag in his own front yard. Which, bear in mind, literal Nazis with machine guns couldn't stop him from flying the American flag in Germany in the 1940s, and now you're gonna try to tell him he can't do it in fucking Virginia, in his own front yard.
It's a bold strategy.
So the next day Colonel Barfoot's son-in-law calls up the local radio show. They run with the story. It gets picked up nationally almost immediately. Everybody from the White House Press Secretary, to Fox News, to the local VFW is absolutely Furious.
Okay stop. At this point in time it's 2009. Barack Obama's President. Do you understand what I've just told you? This HOA has fucked up so bad, that they've got the Obama Administration and Fox News to agree on something. Okay? Okay, this is a critical fucking error on their part. The HOA would end up backing down within a week, because apparently when the entire nation is looking at you like the eye of Sauron, it ends up being bad for the Aesthetics and curb appeal of your little neighborhood.
Click thru for a recap of Colonel Barfoot's military career, including the operation that lead to him receiving the CMH, and what his career was like after that.
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