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Originally Posted by Capo

I'll never understand why people make such a fuss over a piece of fabric.

Originally Posted by Karasu

Um, i'm for my country and all, but is it really that big of a deal? Nevermind the fact it is or isn't illegal, I just think it's pointless to get so angry over which flag is on top. Obviously, the person who had both flags loved America and his nationality, Mexico. He was giving props to both, but one dude gets personally hurt because the Mexican flag touches the sky higher than the American flag. I just...don't get it.

This is why certain people abuse the term "unpatriotic." Now, notice, neither of you say you disagree with the view, you just say you don't understand it.

It's pretty simple. A country's flag represents said country, this is the reason flag-burning is such a strong form of protest, you're saying, "What this country is doing is so awful I'm going to let them up." If someone destroyed an object that held sentimental value for you with the knowledge that you held it in such high regard you would, doubtless, be upset.

Well, it is assumed that one's flag holds that kind of value for every citizen, and it's assumed by a great many more that such value is instilled in every generation.

I'm not commenting one way or another on what I think of this (or US Flag boxers), but you should at least understand how important the flag is to some people, and why they'll go to such lengths.

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Originally Posted by Smelnick

Here in canada, we believe in equal rights. Noone would have gone tearing down another man's home flag. Actually, some wigger probably would just to be an ass. But otherwise, as patriotic as we are, we still respect other's lineage.

The fuck does this have to do with equal rights? Nobody saying he can't fly the Mexican flag. Nobody's saying he needs to GTFO&STFU. This isn't about his right to fly another nation's flag, it's about whether he should fly any flag above the Stars n' Bars.

Go look around Winnipeg and see how many flags are flying above the Maple Leaf, I doubt there are any.

Also, Canada is awesome, and even I shit candy when I was there.

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Originally Posted by Brent

Well you've already stated that you agree the owner isn't punishable by any law, so why exactly does he need to buy another flag pole?

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. Another addition: Canadian flag etiquette. I don't suppose anyone knows Mexico's national flag ettiquette?

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

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

Didn't mean to imply he did, or what the veteren did was legal/right. Just trying to help clarify the Generic Badass's comments. :/

And Smelnick? Well.. hell. Just one more way y'all up north are different.

How ya doing, buddy?

Big things are made up of smaller things, Arainach. Nobody's comparing improper flag etiquette to torture, so don't you go discouting what that piece of cloth means.

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And as the symbol of that nation, doesn't one's use and treatment of said "peice of cloth" mean something? Why the hell do you think people burn flags? Because they ran out of clean sheets?

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He's far from justified, Brady, but I can't bring myself to make fun of the man for having an infalted sense of patriotism.

Also, Angel, many, many people have already quoted from the US Flag Ettiquette, and I linked to the Canadian one. Check the first page for these things.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

Frank has the right idea. This man is only trying to protect us from the commies in the school systems, infiltrating our precious bodily fluids.

This whole thing is so impossibly banal. "Crazy old man is senile, acts cantankerously and does stupid shit". WELL FUCK, THIS IS PRIME-TIME MATERIAL

He's a crazy old man. Crazy old men go to the nursing home. Then we can all root through his house for whatever other things he's stolen to protect the nation!

I bet he has a stash of "Disgruntled Negro" CDs.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?