Actually I think burning a flag in protest is ok (and so does the supreme court)
I'm also opposed to the proposed flag burning amendment to the constitution.

The thing is it has to be YOUR flag that you burn. Burning your own flag is an act of political protest.
Burning someone else's flag is first of all theft (since you have to take their flag) and also criminal property damage. (depending on your local statutes)

How many of these flags are there?

let me know when my hatred for christians changes.

you act li,ke this is new behavior.

ive BEEN this way.

where in lousiana are you?

and have you overlooked the fact its mounted on a STREET SIGN?

the street sign bit constitutes defacement of public property, and is a safety hazzard to motorists and pedestrians.

"If you don't take it down officer, I will. And then you can arrest me for doing your job for you."

A good rule of thumb is to always carry something to cut bind and burn. :thumbsup

yeah, ya never know when you may run into a christian

http://www.phreak.org/archives/archi...fs/ed_gein.gif

gut them all.

fly an iraqui flag and see how pissed off they get.

:thumbsup

Everyone who had more than one beer shouldn't drive.

JC4L baby :glugglug

I'm in the covington/mandeville area.

and have you overlooked the fact that its FLAG DAY???

LOL

I just read through this whole thread and was about to post the same thing.

Flag Day?

:1orglaugh

How retarded.

It's not really a holiday...Hallmark can't make any money off of it.

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The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'.

On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.

Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as 'Flag Day', and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag.

Two weeks later on May 8th, the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution unanimously endorsed the action of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames. As a result of the resolution, Dr. Edward Brooks, then Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on June 14, 1893 in Independence Square. School children were assembled, each carrying a small Flag, and patriotic songs were sung and addresses delivered.

In 1894, the governor of New York directed that on June 14 the Flag be displayed on all public buildings. With BJ Cigrand and Leroy Van Horn as the moving spirits, the Illinois organization, known as the American Flag Day Association, was organized for the purpose of promoting the holding of Flag Day exercises. On June 14th, 1894, under the auspices of this association, the first general public school children's celebration of Flag Day in Chicago was held in Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, with more than 300,000 children participating.

Adults, too, participated in patriotic programs. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, delivered a 1914 Flag Day address in which he repeated words he said the flag had spoken to him that morning: "I am what you make me; nothing more. I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself."

Inspired by these three decades of state and local celebrations, Flag Day - the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 - was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. While Flag Day was celebrated in various communities for years after Wilson's proclamation, it was not until August 3rd, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.

fwiw..

I don't think you're supposed to write shit on the flag in the first place.

If Fletch burns that flag, imo, it wouldn't be the american flag he would be burning, but the mangled christian version of the flag.

Not everyone in america is christian (yet).

Anyway, it would be an act of umm... patriotisim.

Preserving the flag even. Uh..Yeah... that's it'. :glugglug

How do you know it was the "Christians"? Could have been the Catholics? Was this an organized event in your community? Maybe it was the Athiests trying to make people think it was the Christians.


Defacing the American Flag is the biggest problem I can see here.

Defacing stop signs is also a problem and in our area, illegal.

Hopefully they will be gone quickly.