American Flag gets cut down by angry vet.
nzshadow
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Can someone please explain what the fuck the big deal is?im genuinely not taking the piss, is the fact that one flag is on top of another, thus making the top flag more important?is it really worth getting so worked up over it, and is it really illegal?
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I guess the positions of the two flags plays right into the fears of some Americans that the US is turning into Mexico North - an immigration invasion, rather than a military one.
Bill Hicks had a great routine based on this very principle...
lemme see if i can find it.
edit: found it.
i really don't understand this kind of thing, why do people get so worked up over flags?
Im not trying to start shit here, i just don't get the symbolism of one flag flying higher than another.
that pretty much sums up that shit.
he prolly also fought for our freedom in 'nam. a country that didn't have shit to do with us.
Judging from his beard, I was thinking he was a vet from the war of 1812
Since you're asking an honest question, I'll give you an honest answer:
To this man it is worth getting so worked up over it. If he really is a Vietnam vet, he very likely went through some of the most horrific experiences a person can go through. He may have even committed atrocities himself, under orders from an authority he trusted. Trying to reconcile such extreme circumstances with the life he leads now, in the States, no doubt causes a lot of cognitive dissonance. So many acts of war are completely unjustifiable when applied to normal, everyday life, making it nearly impossible for some vets to apply a realistic, healthy perspective to their everyday dealings with others.
In all likelihood, this man is not really upset about the flag. Rather, I'm guessing he's furiously trying to reconcile or justify his past actions and experiences to a population that may have little or no idea what he's been through.
"by the rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night, that our flag[/b] was still there..."
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I dont know about that, I know a lot of good people rockin' a Billy Gibbons lite
fucking annoying local news, "what do you think about this???"
sweet
That said. The dude is a nut ball and should probably be arrested for what he did. Not that I think the shop owner will lay charges.
I'm not even American and I know the flag has a crap load of rules. Ask anyone who cares, how much people take a piss if it even touches the ground or is even folded wrong.
It's like symbolic dominance; the higher flag is the dominant one, and the lower flag is the subjugated one. Or, in this instance, the Mexican flag was presented as more important than the U.S. flag.
Obviously, some people get really worked up about this stuff. Others don't really give a crap either way.
Funny part is, that's the proper way to dispose of a flag that has touched the ground, been left out in the rain, or otherwise been defiled. Even better is the fact that the flag-waving ignorati of this country are usually the ones who proudly fly their flag, and leave it out for months to get tattered and sun-faded.
and coming over here illegally is a cake-walk.
4 U.S.C. ???? 1-10 deal with what the U.S. flag should look like and how it should be treated.
But it's really more like a bunch of suggestions; it doesn't contain any enforcement provision.
Please be serious.
I have to win the award for having my name mentioned in the most threads I don't even read/post in.
A flag doesn't mean much to me.
100's of gang members have been killed for simply wearing the wrong color.
Symbols like these play a major role in many people's life.
My question is.............
What did this flag/symbol mean to the guy who put it up in the first place??
Bill Hicks refuses to become irrelevant even 12 years later.
It's kind of sad that people still wave this shit around. I live in liberal Southern California and I see this crap sometimes. Hell, my local liquor store (owned by a Mexican family) sell bandanas/doo-rags as counter impulse buys, a couple of them being Confederate rag themed.
I meant that in a sarcastic sense...i incorrectly read your post and I was about to go e-thug on you
I'm not saying Vietnam isn't traumatic but you figure the challenges people from Latin American countries as well as all across the globe, it's brutal.