Letter to the Editor Re: Flag Etiquette
As the mother of two Eagle Scouts, I am fussy about flag etiquette. Here are some do's and don'ts for our flag.
1. Do not place any other flag more prominently than the American flag. No politician or cause supersedes the United States flag.
2. Never bastardize the flag for your political beliefs like changing the colors. It is not gray with a blue, red or any other color stripe. It is red, white and blue.
3. Do not display the flag with the Stars and Bars. The Virginia Confederate flag is about the destruction of the United States. That is its history.
4. Never use the flagpole of the US flag to try to beat a capital police officer to death while chanting "Shoot him with his own gun."
5. Never cut the American flag down off of the Capitol and throw it to the ground as insurrectionists cheer.
6. Never try to replace the US Capitol's flag with a Trump flag.
What happened on Jan. 6 was the culmination of an anti-democratic, anti-American movement that has been building in our area for a while. It was not liberals in Trump hats that disgraced our flag. It was people who believe that only they should have a vote, and with Trump's lies and hateful words ringing in their ears, they were willing to spill blood to make Trump king.
Any politician or person that does not condemn that day is not an American let alone an American patriot.
posted by spooked at 4:38 PM
2 Comments:
everybody country has a flag. to pledge allegiance to one's country's flag is blind acceptance of the evils that the leaders of one's country perpetrates in the name of that flag.
fuck the american flag.
because that's what our leaders do.
p.s. ""The Virginia Confederate flag is about the destruction of the United States. That is its history.""
slavery was an obvious evil but the US civil war was not about slavery nor the destruction of the US. it was about the south issuing their own currency in an effort to escape the yankee boot on their neck. i suspect that in reality, the yankees did not really give a shit about the plight of the black slaves other than as a propaganda tool.
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