Whitehall, PA vets are angry at Mayor Ed Hozza
For some stupid reason, Mayor Ed Hozza decided that Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania needed a Syrian flag raising on public property. To accomplish that, he took the POW/MIA flag down from the pole and raised the Syrian national flag in it’s place. The article at WFMZ doesn’t explain why that was particularly important at the time, but they are rather graphic about the anger that resulted at a township commissioners meeting last night when veterans confronted the mayor;
Some called for Hozza to resign.
One man claimed he violated federal laws.
Another compared him to “Hanoi Jane,” a name given to actress Jane Fonda, who will never be forgiven by many vets for what they consider her traitorous visit to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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Township resident Kevin Seyfried declared the only time the POW/MIA flag is allowed to come down “is when all 88,000 POWs and MIAs return home.” He also maintained no other flag is allowed to fly on the same pole as the American flag. And he said the U.S. State Department considers Syria a terrorist-supporting country — yet its flag was placed underneath the American flag at the April 18 program.
Seyfried asked township commissioners to take formal action so the POW flag “never comes down again.” He also wanted “a public apology from all who were involved on April 18 to POWs, MIAs, their families, the veterans, the people of this township and the men and women serving our country today.” Seyfried was loudly cheered and applauded.
The article goes on for five more pages. But it looks to me like veterans in Whitehall have a handle on this. Some of them, it is pointed out in the article, wore motorcycle club vests – so, oh, so scary veterans were there.
I’m just curious as to why the mayor decided to raise the Syrian flag in Pennsylvania.
Township resident Nidal Yacoub also apologized, saying there was no intention to insult anyone by having the flag raising. “If what we did caused any insult to anybody, we do apologize,” said Yacoub. “We respect the troops, we respect the veterans. “We come from Syria, but we’re American. We live here now. We don’t like to insult anybody. Accept our apology if that caused any harm to anyone of you.”
Yeah, well, just coming from somewhere doesn’t justify raising a flag from that place on US government property. And why the mayor would think it wouldn’t piss off people is beyond me. He should be removed from office just because of his poor judgement.
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I think that the people of Whitehall Township will be electing a new mayor at the next election. The current mayor really screwed Fido and it looks like they won’t forget it…
They should hang that frigging mayor from the flag pole….communist/mooslime a.h.!
This sounds like something John Spodofora would do.
Or Paul Reickhoff and those other turds at IVAW.
If this dumbass is incapable on his own of figuring out that this would upset people, especially veterans, he aint much of a leader and he should probably go home now. Quietly, and right after he fixes his flag problem. Dipshit.
Dumbass is right. He once set off a fire alarm in an old bomb shelter in the city hall. How you ask? You won’t believe it. Wait. Yes you will. He decided to take a sander to the shelter’s floors. He wanted to show the city it had a mayor not afraid to get his hands dirty. Well, the floor was tile and the tiles…wait for it…were asbestos! An asbestos dust cloud set off the alarm. The responding officer later filed workers’ comp for her exposure to the stuff.
I read about that. HOLY CRAP it was THIS DUMBASS?!?!?
Jebus…also he did this previously
This isn’t the first time one of Hozza’s do-it-yourself projects has made news. In 2013, Hozza personally installed 12 flower planters in the median strip of MacArthur Road at the Allentown border, starting a fight with PennDOT.
The state owns the road and the “mountable curb” where the planters were placed. The curb is needed for emergency vehicles to get around traffic, PennDOT said at the time.
Snyder said Hozza doesn’t seem to realize that township or state property is not his own
/Triple Dumbass??? (Cause double dumbass just isn’t enough.)
And yet, people voted for him.
Somebody tell me how to splutter in writing, because I am literally dumbfounded about this! How does anyone do this?! How does an American raise the flag of a terrorist nation on American soil?!
Well, it’s not exactly a splutter. But for stuff like this, I’ve found that a simple “WTF?” sums things up pretty well. (smile)
Ya can’t fix stupid and this ass wipe is stooooopid writ large.
OC
I am speechless. How can anyone “in their right mind” think this is even remotely O.K.?
For some comical relief here is what the onion is saying about Tiger Wood. Spoiler Alert—this will make you either cry or piss your pants or both….
http://www.theonion.com/article/tiger-woods-lindsey-vonn-blame-breakup-hectic-sex–50359
Argh ….
This is the type of immigration we are getting these days. I see it all the time, dudes (and dudettes) driving around with foreign flags hanging from their rearview mirrors inside their cars. Some have the flags as bumper stickers, or glass stickers.
And I am an immigrant, but I came here chasing my American dream, and I have lived mine, but these people are trying their best to fundamentally transform America into a 3rd world banana republic, stealing my kids American dream.
Thanks Yef. Appreciate your post and your sentiment.
I travel in an RV in Mexico frequently. By their law I cannot criticize, get involved in anything political (including standing on a sidewalk and passively watching a political event); earn income; yada, yada. I have to go through an anal exam to get a tourist pass for 6 months. Guess what? That is fine with me. It is their country and they set their rules. If I don’t like it, I don’t go.
I often say that we don’t need an immigration bill. Just translate Mexico’s and adopt it. Lib’s heads would explode because Mexico damn sure keeps their borders closed.
Many peoples heads would explode if we ran our immigration/naturalization standards as other countries do. I have looked at ‘returning” to Ireland (I am second generation…) and their standards, while attainable, are quite involved. As is Canadas (Wife is Canuckian…) for me to simply live there and work…cant be taking a job that can be filled by a Canadian, must be seeking a job in a career field that is needed nationally or regionally, advance degrees move you to the head of the line etc.
It is easy to critique us when you are on the outside looking in…
Let none forget that it was the Syrian regime under the Assads who ordered up the Oct 1983 Beirut Marine Barracks bombing, and provided Hezbollah with the logistical and intel support to carry it out. This mayor is too stupid/ignorant to care to make that connection…nuff said…
This guy couldn’t find Syria on a map if it and the USA were the only two countries on that map. Moron. And I hasten to point out, he was re-elected. Ah, America. Is this a great country or what?
The Stupid is strong with this one.
Agreed. Who are the brain dead mutants that come up with these shitty ideas.
IDIOT. Fa’qheem and all of his goats.
I guess they’re lucky that it wasn’t a Confederate battle flag. The town would have already been burnt down and looted.
The irony is asphyxiating isn’t it?
If it were a Confederate flag, every news agency would be there asking the mayor why he’s a racist and wants to own slaves, etc etc.
But because he puts up a terrorist supporting flag, “well, he’s sorry for upsetting anyone” and no one says crap about it in the MSM.
Or an Israeli flag…
2 words:
FOX News!
That is what is needed in that sleepy ‘lil town.
Bullshit they identify themselves as Americans.
Their actions trump their taqiyya.
This is precisely the guy, and his ilk, that prove this country may well have passed the point of no return. There is nothing about the deal which is supportable. It would have been wrong to fly a Syrian flag on any flagpole on the people’s property. Flying it beneath the US flag? Never OK. To take the additional step of removing the POW/MIA flag to fly a foreign terrorist flag? Unbelievable stupid. Or maybe it’s just some more willful ignorance in combination with a complete lack of caring.
i don’t think that there were any accidents involved. They meant to fly the flag, they meant to take down the POW/MIA flag, and I truly believe that if they thought they could have gotten away with it, (without getting drawn and quartered) they would have compleatly replaced the American flag.
I have not heard what their reasoning was for this stupidity. It doesn’t really matter, but I would still like to hear it.
I agree with your statement that it may be too late for our country, but I hope we are wrong. I’m afraid it is going to take another 9/11 to bring us back around. What a shame.
Yeah.
One flag comes down and another goes up.
Hmmm… One is predominately black and the other is white/black/red/green.
I guess they are color blind or cannot read.
Maybe ESL folks?
Who knows. Either way, I believe that there will be a new mayor soon.
If Obama had a brother…
I personally emailed the mayor (ehozza at whitehalltownship dot com)and told him that if he were any kind of a real man he would resign.
He can be reached via telephone at (610) 437-5524, ext 147 as well. He isn’t in yet, though.