Vets compare latest Obama assault on freedom with Hitler and Stalin.
LAKE COUNTY, Florida (PNN) - March 13, 2012 - Tempers are flaring over a version of the Amerikan flag flying in Lake County. A veterans group says the flag is an outrage.
Korean war veteran Don Van Beck said his blood was boiling.
"I can't describe how upset I was because you just don't do that to the Amerikan flag," Van Beck said.
Van Beck found it flying outside Lake County Democrat headquarters under the stars and stripes. Marine Corps vet John Masterjohn was seeing red.
"Joseph Stalin, pictures of Mao, pictures of Adolph Hitler. The pomp, the ceremony - the flags like that," said Masterjohn.
Nearly a dozen veterans went to the door and aimed to take it down.
"No. This is private property. This is private property. You're not allowed to touch anything. I'll call the (pig thug cops)," Democrat Party chairwoman Nancy Hulbert said. "I just went online and looked up the flag code. There is no higher-up in Lake County. I'm responsible. I take responsibility."
"If you've been a veteran and fought - and some died for this flag - you don't want to see it desecrated. That's how simple it is," said Van Beck.