STATEMENT BY FRIENDS OF BRANDY TATE:

 

AFTER BANK OF AMERICA BETRAYED LOYAL EMPLOYEE BRANDY TATE, SHE HAD TO FLEE HER HOMETOWN OF GAFFNEY SOUTH CAROLINA, HER GOOD JOB, HER BEAUTIFUL HOME, AND EVEN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.  NOW SHE HAS TO HIDE LIKE A CRIMINAL AND IS AFRAID FOR HER SAFETY.

 

FOLLOWING WRITTEN BANK POLICY THAT "OUTSIDE COMMUNITY DISPLAYS", INCLUDING "MILITARY/PATRIOTIC, IRREGULAR SIZE U.S. FLAGS OR" OTHER "FLAGS........MUST BE APPROVED BY ... CONSUMER MARKET MANAGEMENT", EMPLOYEE BRANDY TATE REMOVED  U.S. FLAGS  PLACED OUTSIDE HER BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2009, AS THEY WERE OF IRREGULAR SIZE AND HAD BEEN PLACED WITHOUT THE REQUIRED PRE-APPROVAL.     AFTER LEARNING THAT THE FLAGS HAD BEEN PLACED TO HONOR AN AMERICAN AND LOCAL HERO, U.S. MARINE LANCE CORPORAL CHRISTOPHER FOWLKES WHO   HAD BEEN KILLED DAYS BEFORE WHILE SERVING IN AFGHANISTAN, EMPLOYEE TATE OBTAINED THE REQUIRED APPROVAL.  THEREAFTER SHE PERSONALLY PLACED THE FLAGS BACK ON BANK GROUNDS FOR DISPLAY AND EVEN USED HER OWN MONEY TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL FLAGS. 

 

SUBSEQUENTLY, HER ACTIONS AND PARTICULARLY BANK OF AMERICA'S  FLAG POLICY BECAME SUCH  AN INTERNATIONAL STORY AND SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY THAT BANK OF AMERICA SPOKESPERSON LARRY DI RITA DENIED EVEN THE EXISTENCE OF THE POLICY AND SCAPEGOATED EMPLOYEE TATE IN A  PRIME TIME TELEVISED FOX NEWS INTERVIEW.

 

 

SHAME ON BANK OF AMERICA FOR THESE FALSE STATEMENTS TO THE COUNTRY ABOUT THE GAFFNEY, SC FLAG INCIDENT IN SEPTEMBER 2009.     HOWEVER,THEY DIDN’T STOP THERE! THEY ORDERED MS TATE TO REMAIN SILENT.

 

NOW THEY HOPE THAT THEY CAN QUIETLY DISPOSE OF THE DEDICATED YOUNG BRANCH MANAGER. IN SPITE OF NUMEROUS LETTERS FROM HER DOCTOR, INDICATING SHE SHOULD NOT RETURN TO WORK BECAUSE OF THREATS TO HER SAFETY. THE BANK HAS REPEATEDLY THREATENED TO TERMINATE MS. TATE’S EMPLOYMENT, EXACERBATING THE SEVERE EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL DISTRESS THE BANK HAS CAUSED.

 

WORLD RENOWNED STANFORD UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIST, DR. DAVID SPIEGEL, WHO NOW TREATS MS TATE STATED IN A LETTER PROVIDED TO BANK OF AMERICA AND DATED OCTOBER 16, 2009  THAT HE " REVEWED THE INCIDENT AT THE BANK ON THE INTERNET TO ASSESS THE NATURE OF THE STRESSORS SHE IS FACING" AND THAT IT WAS HIS " ASSESSMENT THAT SHE HAS GOOD REASON TO FEAR FOR HER PHYSICAL
SAFETY ".     BECAUSE OF THIS AND OTHER RELATED REASONS DR. SPIEGEL WENT ON TO SAY THAT MS. TATE IS "PSYCHIATRICALLY DISABLED NOW."

MS. TATE HAS BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED OF BEING UNPATRIOTIC AND UN-AMERICAN, ALL BECAUSE SHE FOLLOWED THE BANK’S EXPLICIT POLICY.  BANK OFFICIALS CARE NOTHING FOR HER SAFETY OR WELL-BEING. ON PRIME TIME FOX NEWS THE BANK SPOKESPERSON  DENIED HAVING A WRITTEN FLAG POLICY.  HE STATED  "THERE IS NO SUCH POLICY." AND THAT MS. TATE "MISUNDERSTOOD BANK POLICY" AND "MADE AN ERROR IN JUDGEMENT" BUT HERE IS BANK OF AMERICA’S FLAG POLICY:

 

1. "OUTSIDE COMMUNITY DISPLAYS (OTHER THAN CORPORATE APPROVED

SPONSORSHIP MATERIALS) SHOULD NOT BE DISPLAYED WITHIN

CUSTOMER VIEW."

2. "OTHER FLAGS: DISPLAYING OTHER FLAGS SUCH AS LOCAL CITY/

COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES, COMMEMORATIVE, MILITARY/PATRIOTIC,

IRREGULAR SIZE U.S. FLAGS OR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP FLAGS

MUST BE APPROVED BY YOUR CONSUMER MARKET MANAGEMENT."

3. THE SIZE OF THE BANK’S APPROVED "U.S. FLAG STANDARD IS 5'X 8' "(5 FEET X 8FEET)

MS.TATE AND HER FAMILY HAVE PREVIOUSLY EXTENDED, AND CONTINUE TO EXTEND HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES AND SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY OF U.S. MARINE LANCE CORPORAL CHRISTOPHER FOWLKES.   SHE HONORS THE FALLEN MARINE, AS SHE DID ON THE DAY OF THE FLAG INCIDENT AND ON THE DAY OF THE PROCESSION IN HIS HONOR.    SHE HAS ALWAYS PAID TRIBUTE TO OUR MILITARY AND VETERANS AND HAS RECEIVED CERTIFICATES OF COMMENDATION FOR DOING SO.     MS. TATE COMES FROM A FAMILY OF U.S. MILITARY SERVICEMEN WHO SERVED IN ALL OF THE  WARS DATING BACK TO WORLD WAR ONE.     SHE  NOW HAS ONE COUSIN WHO CURRENTLY SERVES IN THE U.S. NAVY AND ANOTHER WHO SERVES AS A MAJOR IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE.