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However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. Rees said in order for police to take any action, the owner of the fence would have to file a complaint. Jeff Collison, owner of The RV Center in La Habra, who has allowed residents to add patriotic symbols to the fence on his property, said he just might do that. If they are allowed to come on my property and burn flags, does that mean I can go to City Hall or the police station and light their flags on fire because that is freedom of speech? Some residents Monday hung signs criticizing those who destroyed the display. Tracey Chandler, a Whittier mother of four who has maintained the spontaneous memorial since it was created by other area residents soon after the Sept. The Bob Dylan song she referred to is "With God on Our Side,' an antiwar anthem of the 1960s. However, he said he does not condone the destruction of symbols important to those who erect them. Some think the best way is to pursue all means possible to avoid putting them in danger,' he said. Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell can be reached at (562) 698-0955, Ext.
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