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Originally Posted by minusonebit
So let me change this: If Rudy Giuliani becomes president, I am going to burn a United States flag on the statehouse steps, while wearing/waving a red flag and after handing out flyers printed on images of United States flags that tell about Giuliani and my fond dislike of him. That way I can violate every section of the act with one act.
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Just watch out for the Good Ol' Boys, the coke-snorting Sherriff and the bent coroner who signs the death certificate as "death by drowning while waving a flag in the town square"
The mentality level sure don't go much above that when flags are involved.
Love this bit - the waving of a red flag at a bull
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Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly display any red flag or other emblem or banner, indicating disloyalty to the Government of the United States or a belief in anarchy or other political doctrines or beliefs, whose objects are either the disruption or destruction of organized government, or the defiance of the laws of the United States or of the State of Oklahoma, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary of the State of Oklahoma for a term not exceeding ten (10) years, or by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by both such imprisonment and fine.
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Sounds a fine and rational piece of legislation with modest penalities
They frightened of something or is it just another law of oppression?
It's ironic that many people gave their lives for the symbol of a flag and under often "just" circumstances. It's the "call to arms" symbol which we supposed to respect and support for some vague undefined reason - because we were told. At the same time, while waving flags, there has been genocide, torture, oppression, slavery, murder, rape ad nausea - and that's still happening now. What we may see as a flag can be a symbol of terror to others - expecially in victims and survivors.
There may be a couple of "innocent" countries, but most have nothing to be proud of in their flags and sure is nothing 'honorable' about em.