Bumper sticker I saw today: "If you're gonna burn our flag, wrap yourself

[freeplessinseattle]

in it first". On a Tennessee plate, hadn't seen anything like that around these parts before.

Just made the traffic even more annoying being stuck behind that thing. That was their only bumper sticker, so kind of telling that's the only thing that inspires passions enough to drive around expressing their big gripe. Never mind what atrocities might have inspired any flag burnings in the first place.

Not that I'm big on burning anything, but the sentiment just stuck in my craw for some reason and wanted to share my distaste with the more enlightened people here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is disgusting.

It upsets me too.

[freeplessinseattle]

2. It is, isn't it? I don't think I've ever seen a pro-violence sticker before

creeped me out that someone would be so proud of feeling like that

[Squinch]

3. First of all, it doesn't even make sense. "Wrapping oneself in the flag" is a description of

those who are typically on opposite ends of the aisle from anyone who would burn a flag.

Second of all, the hysteria over flag burnings that has gone on for the last 4 decades is amazingly persistent in light of the miniscule number of actual flag burnings that have happened. (I've never seen it. I've never heard of it happening anywhere near where I live, which is one of the more liberal corners of the country. I've never even heard of it happening anywhere else within the country. The only American flag burnings I can remember being aware of were in Middle Eastern countries during wars.)

The dopes are being stirred up by the right again. Wonder what the right is using outrage over flag burnings to deflect attention from this time.

[nyquil_man]

4. It's suggesting that a flag burner should set him/herself on fire.

Yes, it's that insane.

[Squinch]

7. I know. But the part that bothers me the most is that it's so

unprovoked. No one is burning flags. How much of an idiot do you have to be to be driving around with a bumper sticker advocating violence against an imaginary slight?

Honestly, the stupidity and the drama mongering are amazing.

[nyquil_man]

9. They value a piece of cloth more than they value humans,

particularly when those humans disagree with them. The cloth means something to them while the human means nothing to them.

I take George Carlin's advice and leave symbols to the symbol-minded.

[Tikki]

10. Absolutely...if ever, it was back during the 60's protest and even then...not so much..

That tired old canard reminds me of: I'd rather my son be dead than to have long hair...or...The only good hippie
is a dead hippie.

Tired, old, bitter people keep the hate alive..even if it makes them look beyond stupid.


Tikki

[underpants]

5. Burning flags is happening a lot?

No of course, that is a dashboard believer playing victim as instructed

[watch the sky]

6. I guess it means to kill yourself if you're so unpatriotic as to burn an American flag

free speech issue, who is this redneck to dictate a suicide clause?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then

"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." Arundhati Roy

[backscatter712]

12. I couldn't have said it better myself. n/t

[bunnies]

11. You just reminded me of that flag burning bill...

and who voted for it. Thank you.

[Mariana]

13. If I buy a flag, it's not OUR flag, dammit.

It's MY flag. Mine. I own it. It belongs to me. Just like the flag that you bought is YOUR flag.

I'll do what I damn well please with MY flag.