Washington state mayor destroys LGBTQ+ activist who complained about city hall flying POW/MIA flag: How dare you
A Washington State mayor scolded an LQBTQ+ activist who was outraged that the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flag was allowed to fly over city hall, but the Pride Flag was not.Newcastle Mayor Robert Clark was berated by activists at a public hearing Tuesday night as citizens of the city — located about 12 miles from Seattle — were upset over the council’s decision last year to stop the Pride flag from being flown at City Hall during Pride Month.Toward the end of the three-hour-long session, an activist stood in front of the council and called Clark “disgusting” and claimed he and some of the elected city officials were trying to “trick” people out of believing the Pride flag can’t be flown by flying the POW/MIA flag.“There are 82,000 Americans registered as POWs and MIAs, but there’s 20 million minimum LGBTQ members,” the activist said. “I’ve talked before about the hypocrisy, and I think that your approach to trying to trick people out of having to fly the Pride flag in June by making sure the POW-MIA flag was flown is really disgusting.”She then told Clark and the council they should be “ashamed” of the decision.As she walked away from the podium, her comments sparked a fire inside Clark, who immediately called her out for alluding that his city was using the flag as a “political stunt.”“It’s not common that I respond to public comment, but I will not sit here and have somebody tell me that veterans are a political stunt.
How dare you,” the mayor declared.“This country was founded because veterans lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of people died for this country so you could fly your Pride flag.Man, I am pissed.”Clark then told the woman to never “disparage veterans” in his presence again.“Those 82,000 people who never came home will never have a chance to have a family or grow up while you can fly your pride flag, they sacrifice their lives all over the world for America and for Freedom around the wo...