Ray From Cleveland
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Well, now, I disagree with that logic, Ray. You make America worse off when you banish people do to peaceful protests. Even these protests that I find to be beyond the pale of acceptable behavior, at least militarily. If you follow your logic to its end, then the Native Americans would be justified in asking us to leave. In your case, perhaps it would be the Hurons... Go Tribe!It's not just a flag. That flag represents the people of the United States. That flag represents a free country. That flag represents our military and strength.
If you really want to protest the US and all that we stand for, the best way to do that is move to another country.
Well if people have the right to express their anger using our flag, then certainly I have the right to believe they are anti-American in doing so.
There are all kinds of ways to protest. You can protest here on USMB, you can protest by writing an opinion piece to your newspaper, you can protest on Facebook, you can protest on the sidewalks of our cities, there are all kinds of ways to protest. So why do liberals choose the type of protest to offend the most American people? Because they are nothing but troublemakers.
If I want to protest Target stores, I don't shop at Target stores. If I want to protest the NFL, I don't watch the NFL. If somebody wants to protest the United States, then move out of the United States. Put your money where your mouth is I always say.
That's fair. I just don't think this particular form of protest is limited to liberals. I've seen it on both sides recently and it makes me sick no matter who is doing it.
Then I must have missed something because I never seen anybody on the right desecrate our flag, and if they did, I will say the same thing about them.
Yeah, I watch FOX News (I like Chris Wallace) and they really flog the "unhinged liberals are desecrating our flag" angle. But it's going on both sides and has been in my view since 2000 when I saw Dubya supporters doing it. I was and continue to be enraged.
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Okay, you found one guy. But again, I hold the same opinion about him as I do with anybody who disrespects our flag on our side or theirs.