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JDPriestly

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9. Flag-burning is passe. It's stupid. It is at best meaningless, at worst

Thu Feb 2, 2012, 02:52 AM

Feb 2012

offensive. Most of us agree on that.

But condemning the Occupy movement because a tiny group of individuals burned a flag, individuals who may or may not have been part of OWS is even more offensive.

And I think we all agree that the most offensive of all is police brutality.

Flag-burning does not justify police brutality.

Flag-burning has nothing to do with the primary things that OWS is protesting about such as the banks' and Wall Street's irresponsibility and failure to answer for their role in causing our economic situation, the joblessness, the outsourcing, the Citizen's United decision, the role of money in our politics, etc.

Flag-burning is juvenile behavior.

It has nothing to do with OWS.

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FLAG: There's an overlap, whether one chooses to see it or not... [View all] Bicoastal Feb 2012 OP

See, you use lots of language such as 'the practice' and 'endorse' as if this was some Bluenorthwest Feb 2012 #1

veterans who kill themselves get free flags on their coffins nt msongs Feb 2012 #2

Well, actually, the flag is given to the primary next of kin, as a keepsake. nt MADem Feb 2012 #4

Yep. Everyone knows that a person has every "right" to cut a fart on the subway. MADem Feb 2012 #3

A Textual Venn Diagram a simple pattern Feb 2012 #5