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December 25, 2005

On Burning the Flag

Hillary Clinton sponsored legislation to ban the burning of the American flag. It's part of her effort to fool people into thinking that she is politically more to the right than she will ever actually be. But I did come across one flag burning story that I am sure would evoke the senator's honest outrage.

The story came to me from one of the flag burners, my good friend Wayne. Wayne recently moved from somewhere in the south to the wilds of New Hampshire. Wayne does a little computer consulting and general upkeep on the Macs in our company, which is how I met him seven years ago. I think he has moved his family four times since I have known him. He can run his business from anywhere so I think he's just trying a lot of different place until he finds one he likes.

He has never come out and said that it was his intention in moving to New Hampshire to be a part of the Free State Project but it was inevitable once he moved there that he would be. I don't know how deep he has gotten - you be the judge from this photo of Captain Liberty.

Yes, that's my friend Wayne in the funny hat at the Second Annual UN Flag Burn put on by the New Hampshire Underground. From the photos it seems that everyone had a good time. Wayne did eventually take the hat off!. The the U.N, flag burns nicely.

I am not sure how effective a cook-out, sledding-party flag burning is as a form of protest. U.N. Flag Code and Regulations state

2. Dignity of the flag: The Flag shall not be subjected to any indignity

3. Flag protocol: (1) The Flag of the United Nations shall not be subordinated to any other flag.

I strongly suspect that the attitude contained in that second example has a lot to do with the motivation do violating the first.

U.N. flag regulations also specify that

Any violation of this Flag Code may be punished in accordance with the law of the country in which such violation takes place.

Somehow I get the feeling that the people of the New Hampshire Undergorund would like to see them try.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:28 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment

1 Any violation of this Flag Code may be punished in accordance with the law of the country in which such violation takes place.
I doubt that any country has laws regarding the handling of the U.N. flag.

And it's also proper not to display the U.S. flag below any other flag. We're the only country that refuses to dip the flag as it passes the Olympic flag at the opening ceremonies.

And Hillary is just dripping with fraud, ain't she? **sigh** Always has, always will.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at December 25, 2005 06:48 PM (bHdVc)

2 Ahh, Hillary's a great one for civil liberties, huh? I guess she's decided to try to woo a few conservatives, but I don't think the libertarians are anywhere near her camp.

Posted by: Brad Warbiany at December 27, 2005 03:58 PM (xy3qy)

3 I was going to make up a sign that said "Unaccountable Nincompoops" but I didn't have time due to family obligations.

You're right Steve, it was fun!

Posted by: Wayne at December 31, 2005 10:48 AM (wsM0S)

4 By the way, the reason why I oppose the UN is that I believe that history has shown us repeatedly that when too much power falls into too few hands, bad things always happen to the citizens. The UN aspires to "global governance". This is a problem.

Decentralization of government and true Free Markets are the most moral, efficient and empowering methods to employ, in the pursuit of happiness, stability and prosperity. The UN wants more socialism.

Once the UN sinks their claws into us with their global tax, they will have the funding to make many new stupid things happen around the world. They already have their International Criminal Court. Did anyone ever think they would get that? They have gone way beyond their original purpose of being a place for nations to sit down and speak frankly with one another about disputes and world issues.

I would call your attention to these articles:
http://www.lp.org/media/article_102.shtml
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul257.html

I rest my case.

Posted by: Wayne at December 31, 2005 11:21 AM (wsM0S)

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