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Old 08-13-08, 08:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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No more belgian flag in Lennik

Il n’y a plus de drapeau belge à Lennik - lesoir.be

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Le bourgmestre de Lennik, une commune de l’arrondissement de Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde, a fait enlever tous les drapeaux belges ornant les façades des bâtiments communaux, qui sont remplacés par des drapeaux frappés du lion flamand, a annoncé mercredi la rédaction de la radio-télévision publique flamande VRT. Willy De Waele (Open Vld) explique son initiative par le fait qu’il ne croit plus en un Etat belge. Il se dit toutefois prêt à faire à nouveau arborer le drapeau tricolore lorsque la Belgique aura été transformée en Etat confédéral.
There is no more belgian flag in Lennik

The mayor of Lennik, a commune (= county) close to Brussels, asked for the removal of every Belgian flag from public buildings, and has replaced them with Flemish flags (yellow with a black lion), announced the flemish public television VRT. Willy De Waele (flemish liberal) explains that he doesn't believe in Belgium anymore. However he'd agree to place Belgian flags again when Belgium becomes a confederacy.


what would you do if the mayor of NY banned US flags??
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Old 08-13-08, 08:54 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: No more belgian flag in Lennik

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There is no more belgian flag in Lennik

The mayor of Lennik, a commune (= county) close to Brussels, asked for the removal of every Belgian flag from public buildings, and has replaced them with Flemish flags (yellow with a black lion), announced the flemish public television VRT. Willy De Waele (flemish liberal) explains that he doesn't believe in Belgium anymore. However he'd agree to place Belgian flags again when Belgium becomes a confederacy.


what would you do if the mayor of NY banned US flags??
The same thing you would do if the mayor of Lennik removed belgian flags. j/k.

I would go live in New York, and then, from my bed in my trash-can, I would wave a huge Texas State Flag whenever the mayor walked by:

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Re: No more belgian flag in Lennik

Has Leterme said anything about this yet?
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The same thing you would do if the mayor of Lennik removed belgian flags. j/k.

I would go live in New York, and then, from my bed in my trash-can, I would wave a huge Texas State Flag whenever the mayor walked by:
lol I wounder how they would react if I came there with a Walloon flag

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Has Leterme said anything about this yet?
No, I think he's on holiday (or in China)...bah, it's not the first time such a thing happens...3 frenchspeaking mayors who had been elected last year have been fired by the flemish government because they sent political mails in French to their Frenchspeaking electors who live in Flanders!


I haven't found any more article about this in the frenchspeaking media, but I've found several ones in flemish newspapers. They tell the same thing but add more details:

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Lennik bant Belgische vlag uit straatbeeld
De burgemeester van Lennik, Willy De Waele (Open Vld), heeft alle Belgische vlaggen aan gemeentelijke gebouwen in zijn gemeente laten weghalen. De driekleur werd al op 11 juli vervangen door een vlag met de Vlaamse leeuw. Dat meldt de VRT-nieuwsredactie woensdag.
(belga) - 'Het gaat om een beslissing die we op 11 juli informeel genomen samen met de collega's uit het schepencollege en geen officieel college- of gemeenteraadsbesluit', aldus De Waele.

Met dit initiatief wil Lennik een aantal zaken aan de kaak stellen met betrekking tot de gang van zaken in ons land. 'Wat dekt die Belgische vlak nog als lading? Na 50 jaar staatshervorming is dit land in een bestuurlijke chaos verzeild geraakt en een jaar na de jongste parlementsverkiezingen is de bestuurloosheid fenomenaal groot geworden. Van ordentelijk bestuur is al lang geen sprake meer', aldus De Waele.

Vlaanderen pikt bovendien volgens De Waele een hele resem zaken niet meer. 'We betalen ons zodanig blauw aan transfers naar andere gewesten dat we geen eigen politiek meer kunnen voeren bij gebrek aan eigen middelen. Met de niet-splitsing van de kieskring Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde wordt de grondwet bovendien niet meer gerespecteerd en Vlaamse beleidsbeslissingen worden tegengehouden door mandatarissen uit een ander gewest zoals de ontsluiting van de haven van Antwerpen en de verbinding Antwerpen-Ruhrgebied'.
Lennik bans Belgian flag from the streets

The mayor of Lennik, W. de Waele, has removed every Belgian flag from municipal buildings. The tricolour flag had already been replaced on 11th July (Flemish national day) by the Flemish lion.

(...)

"What means the Belgian flag anyway? After 50 years of state reform, this country has become an administrative chaos, and one year after the elections, the "administrationlessness" is incredible. We don't talk about good administration anymore for a long time."

(...)"





That's funny to read the comments of these articles:

- on the Walloon websites, they call the Flemish "nationalist", they call for a boycott of the Flemish coast and bash the Flemishs
- on the Flemish ones, they congratulate the mayor and bash the Walloons

But there are also moderate people who say that just makes us look stupid!
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There is no more belgian flag in Lennik

The mayor of Lennik, a commune (= county) close to Brussels, asked for the removal of every Belgian flag from public buildings, and has replaced them with Flemish flags (yellow with a black lion), announced the flemish public television VRT. Willy De Waele (flemish liberal) explains that he doesn't believe in Belgium anymore. However he'd agree to place Belgian flags again when Belgium becomes a confederacy.

what would you do if the mayor of NY banned US flags??
i am sure the feds have a backup plan they could use, like the plan they had if 9/11 was unsuccessful
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