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Flag desecration?

A propos for July 4th:

  1. Yesterday I dropped my daughter off at a friend's house for a pool party. I noticed small US flags planted at the corneers of the public and private sidewalks thorughout the neighborhood. I looked closely at the flag in front of the friend's house: below the flag on the stick was an advertising banner for a local mortgage company.

  1. In a teaser for a cable TV show, I saw Jesse James (the hotrod/motorcycle builder), while visiting troops in Iraq, autograph a US flag wih an indelible pen.

  2. (A little late for Dominion Day (oops, according to wikipedia it is now officially Canada Day)): on the OLN Tour de France show this morning I noticed a Canadian flag painted in the middle of the road, right where many of the bicycles had to ride over it.
Reply to
Richard Henry
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That seems to be the gimmick of the year... around here a real estate agent distributed flags. I have no problem with that.

That annoys me, but not quite to the "shovel upside the head" level.

It's not a US flag, so who cares ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

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Reply to
Jim Thompson

Who cares, its only a flag

martin

Reply to
martin griffith

The whole bit with the flag is just more irrelevant hoi-poloi political bs for the ignoraTards. The truth is pretty bad, the nation has gone to hell. For example:

quote The premeditated rape and murders are just the latest in the long line of horrific war crimes from Abu Ghraib to Haditha. Bush supporters are still in denial about each incident. It is amazing that Bush supporters think we have a John Wayne military when, according to news reports, recruitment problems have resulted in the military accepting felons, drug users, thugs, low-IQ high school dropouts, and illegal Mexicans promised green cards for signing up. Apparently, the same people who make America's streets unsafe for Americans make Iraqi streets unsafe for Iraqis. In response to the declining caliber of new recruits, some of our best troops are refusing to reenlist. Several have written to me that "the Army has left them." end quote

In addition, some of the larger urban gangs are making their members enlist in the Army for the specific purpose of receiving urban warfare training. This has been reported by several reservists who were also civilian police gang crime experts in the US- they noticed the tell-tale graffiti on our armored vehicles in Iraq- and lots of troops walking around with gang memebership tatoos.

Reply to
Fred Bloggs
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Fred, Go suck a Democrat ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Reply to
Jim Thompson

See my other post about those riffraff...

Reply to
Fred Bloggs

I'm a veteran.

Making flag burning illegal, makes it into an object - instead of a symbol. You can destroy an object, nothing can destroy a symbol. Creating a special case for our flag does not mean it would no longer stand for freedom, it just means it would stand for a bit less.

Luhan

Reply to
Luhan

My apologies!

...Jim Thompson

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Reply to
Jim Thompson

Agreed!

However I would like a LAW... burn a flag in my presence enables me a one-time exercise of a right without penalty... one shot upside your head with a shovel ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Reply to
Jim Thompson

My, how I wish Jim had enough sense to realise that you can't have laws like that - it's just one more version of vigilante action, and sillier than most.

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Reply to
bill.sloman

There is a traditional English common law right of necessity- an act necessary to prevent a serious crime. So if flag burning is made a felony then...

Reply to
Fred Bloggs

I fully support Jim's right to be a really pissed-off American!!

Luhan

Reply to
Luhan

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:17:11 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

ALA Blazing Saddles...

Reply to
Roy L. Fuchs

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:28:30 +0200, martin griffith Gave us:

You're only an idiot, and we let you hang around... right?

Reply to
Roy L. Fuchs

In article , Luhan wrote: [....]

Just make it out of something that doesn't burn.

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Reply to
Ken Smith

Or make the smoke lethal ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

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Reply to
Jim Thompson

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:14:09 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

IAWTP

Reply to
Roy L. Fuchs

It's not just TV personalities (well):

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Reply to
Bill Green

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:12:57 GMT, Bill Green Gave us:

Wow...

Reply to
Roy L. Fuchs

Richard Henry typed in news:// snipped-for-privacy@j8g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,

And sometimes people with flags printed on their shirts condemn those who fly it upside down. They've gotten the rules upside down.

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Tom Del Rosso

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