Why didn't the headline read:
Hotel Casino Proudly Displays American Flag.
A Hotel Casino that shows it patriotism by a proud display of the American Flag, was recently dragged into the news and labeled un-Amercan simply for enforcing their own employee handbook regulations.
“The Casa Monica Hotel located in St. Augustine, Florida, is an
American-based, homegrown historic hotel,” their email reads. “The
property reflects its pride in America and great patriotism by flying
the Stars and Stripes high over the hotel. The American flag greets
every guest and employee with its symbolism of our belief in this great
country.”
Instead the headline reads:
Hotel Fires Man Who Wore U.S. Flag Pin
One employee decided to wear an American Flag pin and was sent home for disobedience and eventually fired when he refused to remove the pin from his hotel
uniform.
The employees of this hotel wear uniforms. Their employee handbook clearly states, ‘No other buttons, badges, pins or
insignias of any kind are permitted to be worn.’ No matter an
individual’s national preference, political views or religious
affiliation, it is a standard regulation which ensures equality for all
Grand Performers (employees).”
The media is painting the hotel as evil and unpatriotic. The stories on the internet and television show the fired hotel employee in his regular clothes (not the hotel uniform) and they play a sad tale of how he was denied his opportunity to reflect his pride in America. Of course he is an American. He is suing the hotel isn't he? After all that's the American way. And the media is helping him win his case by twisting the news in his favor.
I did not want to hear this story and I did not want to defend this hotel but it came within by line of sight completely by accident and I saw nothing else to do but try and set the record straight. My heart simply cannot take much of
this leaving out the all the truth.
Keep repeating, "I must not watch the news! I must not watch the news! I must now watch the news! I must not watch the news! I must not watch the news! I must not watch the news!........
Here is a uniform that would allow the young man to display his pins and his patriotism.