Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial(update arrest made)

[Gaard]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I think that flag burning should be legal, but I think that in all cases it's very stupid and here's why: If you disagree with bush you can burn pictures of him. That's fine, but burning a flag of your nation is not an affront to the government at that time, it's an affront to your own country.

Burning your own country's flag is saying "I hate this country and what it stands for." and my question is: Why are you still living in that country if you hate it?

I kind of agree with you. Remeber that bald chic who ripped up a picture of the Pope on SNL? She was trying to make a statement by doing something legal...but frowned upon. Her career was tanked after that...not because what she did was illegal, but because it such a distasteful act. Burning the flag is just like that...legal but extremely distasteful. If one chooses to go that route, they have to be prepared to answer for it...not in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion.

About your other points, I was prepared to say something like "Does America stand for starting wars with countries it deems may be a threat in the future"? But I've decided not to say that. 😉

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ScottyB
The police should have pissed on the flags to put them out. In all seriousness, the protesters should have bought their own flags to burn and torched them to their hearts' content.

I always thought that burning the American Flag was one of the most counter productive ways to protest (at least in the USA). All you accomplisyh by that act is to upset those who have even the slightest Patriotic Feeling for the Flag and Country and effectively close their ears and minds to anything those burning the flag may have to say.

I never said it is a great idea for the cause but it is better than destroying private property.

Not to mention that burning the Flag is legal where as destroying Private Property isn't..unless the flag is the property of someone else who doesn't want it burned.

 

[Iwentsouth]

Update arrest made.

 

[DaiShan]

While I don't necessarily agree with Bush's policies especially towards Iraq, that is uncalled for, anyone have names and addresses for the street trash? Maybe I will go down there and teach them a little class...

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: IGBT
So this is what "peace" protesters do eh??

You got it, they climb up on their high horse to denounce violence in the name of peace and they can't even practice what they preach. See the problem is we have too many college age kids who think they are the next descartes, or rousseau, they really think they are intellectual heavy hitters, but all they can do is spit back what they hear, they don't even make informed decisions for themselves, I see this far too often at school. They are pathetic sheep who can only follow others.

 

[UltraQuiet]

The American Flag
I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence is my Birth Certificate. The blood-lines of the world run through my veins, for I offer freedom to all who are oppressed.
I stand for many things and many people. I am the Nation, a country that has grown from 13 free and independent sovereign colonies to now 50 states; united for strength and in the common belief "...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights". I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired, "the shot heard around the world." I am citizen/soldier/statesmen George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Dwight Eisenhower, and Admirals John Paul Jones and Chester Nimitz and General "Stormin Normin" Schwartzkopf.
I remember the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, Korea, and Vietnam. When Freedom called, I answered, and stayed until it was over. I left my heroic dead in the Flanders fields, on the rocks of Corregidor, in the oceans of the Pacific and Atlantic, in the steaming jungles of Vietnam, the waters of the Persian Gulf and the sands of Desert Storm.
I was conceived in freedom and, God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days. May I possess always the integrity, the courage, and the strength to keep myself unshackled, to remain the citadel of freedom, and the beacon of strength to the rest of the world. This is my goal, my hope, my prayer. A symbol of liberty and strength, I, The American Flag, have carried my message throughout the world.