We read:
"When the Seattle Housing Authority found a swastika, Confederate flag and pornography on its residents' doors, the low-income housing provider banned all door postings. Goodbye Christmas wreath. No more pastoral watercolors. Even the "Do Not Disturb" sign had to go.
That ban, the state Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, violated the tenants' right to free speech. Even if they live in public housing, their doors belong to them. "A government ban on all residential signs constitutes a violation of the First Amendment," Justice Charles Johnson wrote in the majority ruling.
Tom Tierney, the Housing Authority's executive director, called it a philosophical issue among residents. "It's a matter of whose rights ought to be paramount," he said. "Is it the right of the neighbor who's got to get past this other person's free speech? Or is it the right of the person who wants to put up whatever he wants on his door?" ....
The Housing Authority is considering changing the lease to specify that the doors belongs to the agency, a move resident Rick Harrison says he would fight. Harrison, a member of the Resident Action Council who lives in Cedarvale House near Northgate, said, "We could understand the logic of having a rule like not having racist hate messages or obscene messages, but a complete ban was ridiculous."
A senior property manager for the Housing Authority, Bruce Garberding, said he saw the swastika, a Confederate flag and "Soldier of Fortune"-style images on a tenant's door, and has come across nude photos on other doors that he considers demeaning to women.
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If we tolerate billboards by the side of roads we drive along, we should be able to put up with messages on doors that we walk past. But the Left are encouraging the formation of a new namby-pamby generation who cannot handle anything that they don't like.
