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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Foreigners burnt the Stars & Stripes because they don't like Americans. This salient fact seemed to escape most people, so they tried crashing into you with planes instead. What I want to know is, where does your average Iraqi mob GET an American flag to burn? Is there a thriving cottage industry in knockoff flags for burning at rallies and riots? Or are they buying them online from burnourflag.com? The big problem with that hoo-hah ten years back about burning the flag, freedom of expression etc. was that the people indicted for flag-burning were morons. I mean, presumably they did really love their country but felt the need to express their distate with its policies. Unfortunately they chose a really stupid way to do it, which probably more than anything firmed up conservatives' minds that people who didn't agree with them were unAmerican traitors. I'm pissed off with what Blair has done to Britain, he's gotten us involved in an illegal war that shows no sign of ending, and the only thing that seems to be saving us from being the next big Al-Qaeda target is the fact that we've always had a nice big secret police organisation, operating without any form of constitutional oversight, to protect us. The fucker's almost made the Conservative Party electable again for Christ's sake. Yet I don't feel any need to go torch a Union Jack. What good would it do? A flag is just a symbol. It means to you whatever you want it to mean. Just don't get upset if others see it differently. Especially bloody children, how are they supposed to know what a flag represents to you, and why should they care? I wouldn't worry, the way things are going they'll soon be getting fully indoctrinated in the correct behaviour, joining the Cheney Youth, pledging allegiance to God, President Bush and the DisneyCoke corporation. So, treat the flag however you like, wrap yourself in it naked and lie there quivering in barely-suppressed ecstasy if you wish. Don't expect everyone else to do the same. A flag represents a country - but it isn't the country. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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