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Veteran Removes Illegal Mexican Flag, May Be Charged

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A Veteran from Reno, Nev. has hit headlines after he took matters into his own hands yesterday and tore down a Mexican flag that was being illegally flown above a U.S. flag at a local business.

Local news station krnv News 4 had received calls yesterday afternoon from angry residents complaining about the Mexican flag. When the station sent a reporter to investigate the Veteran took the opportunity to make a statement in front of the cameras.

The man commented "I'm Jim Brossert and I took this flag down in honor of my country with a knife from the United States army. I'm a veteran, I am not going to see this done to my country. if they want to fight us, then they need to be men, and they need to come and fight us, but I want somebody to fight me for this flag. They're not going to get it back."

The hispanic store owner who witnessed the incident would not make comment on camera but told krnv over the phone that he was flying the flag as a mark of solidarity to the hispanic community. Pro-immigration protests have been ongoing in the area all weekend after raids were conducted by authorities in the area last week.

The store owner said he is an American citizen and did not know what he was doing was against the law. However, according to federal law it is illegal to fly any flag above the U.S. flag, and if flying more than one they must be on separate poles and be of an equal size.

The Reno police department has told krnv that Brossert will faces charges for theft if the store owner files a police report of what happened.

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.

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Originally Posted by Smelnick

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Originally Posted by Fresh Frank

I think he's merely stating his agreement with the posted flag ettiquete, and his belief that the owner of the liquor store should pony up the dough to pay the proper respect.

Well, bottom line here, the vet both vandalized and stole the store owner's property. That store owner doesn't owe anybody jack squat.

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Originally Posted by Generic Badass

He's not a goddamn hero for cutting the flag down and running with it, but what the owner did was ignorant, insulting and inflammatory. The vet's reaction, while not justified, is understandable.

I can also understand some domestic crimes because damnit that bitch was mouthin' off and needed a good shankin.

Some people being insulting and inflammatory, intentionally or not, is what people have to deal with in a free society. Whether or not the store owner intended to be an asshole is irrelevant, because how he arranges his property is his business and nobody else's.

People are free to take offense, they're not free to steal somebody else's property and violate their freedom of expression.

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I'm pretty sure that's been pretty well established anyway.

Aw man, Ice Burn. You totally got him there.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So you're saying that we should all think of the store owner as a big fat jerk because he broke a law that if enforced would violate his Constitutional rights?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Why wouldn't that be his stated reason then?

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Hey, give Rip Van Winkle a break, he just woke up from a time before the Farm Worker's Union.

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