You Can't Make This Shit Up

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In fact, it's not illegal. Flag laws codify flag etiquette, but they can't be enforced without violating the Constitution, and don't even clarify penalties for violating the codes.

Well, crap, Brady made the post I was going to make before I even read the thread.

I respect what the guy did and all, but unfortunately the law's not on his side for this one. Even if it WAS we have a system for justice, not vigilante justice.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I'm also pretty sure that eroding people's respect for their nation is not conducive to its survival.

Oh PLEASE.

We invade another soverign nation on evidence we knew before the fact was false? Oops.
We abuse people's fear to take away the very liberties that are supposed to be the source of our greatness? Oh well, can't let those towelheads nuke my farm!
We violate decades of policy and countless international laws by torturing and holding indefinitely without charge prisoners both foreign and domestic? Lalala, I can't hear you.

But heaven forbid someone fly a piece of cloth above another piece of cloth. That erodes my respect for this nation!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No, someone burning or raising a piece of cloth does not effect my respect for this nation. I judge the nation on its actions rather than its symbols.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.