http://rawstory.com/news/2008/State_employee_wont_lower_flags_for_0709.html
State employee won't lower flags for Helms
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen
to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Republican Sen.
Jesse Helms.
U.S. and state flags have been flying at half-staff since Gov. Mike
Easley ordered them lowered after Helms died Friday.
L.F. Eason III told his staff at the state Standards Laboratory to
ignore the directive. The News & Observer of Raleigh re****ts that
Eason sent workers an e-mail saying he didn't think it was appropriate
to lower the flags because of Helms' "doctrine of negativity, hate,
and prejudice."
Eason is calling it quits after 29 years with the Department of
Agriculture after superiors told the 51-year-old to lower the flags or
retire immediately.
Flags at the lab have since been lowered to half-staff.
"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that
said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care.
It's not that im****tant. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
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