Gannett Editor Promises to Burn Flag If Burning Amendment Passes

MRC ^ | Wednesday June 29, 2005 | BrentBaker

[Stashiu]

I agree with you on this. The flag was supported by self-less acts. We should keep it that way.

I have been, and remain opposed to any 'flag' ammendment.

[daviscupper]

That's right, she will burn the flag if the ammendment passes the Senate. As oppossed to dumping on the U.S. Military and then wiping her behind with the American flag, which she does almost daily in her newspaper's editorial page. Burning sounds more respectful than what she does nearly everyday. Pass the ammendment.

[rabidralph]

Maybe we could test their resolve at the next counterdemonstration.

[kcvl]

Linda Grist Cunningham

[Eric in the Ozarks]

3 last names? Ted Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy for example ?

[edeal]

This pretty much sums up my feelings.

So, if someone like Joseph Stalin siezed control of the government with "emergency powers", would the flag worshippers still keep this idol sacrid? The US is still the best country on earth, but it is falling fast due to people happily ending the rights of people they disagree with.

[From many - one.]

I don't often have to make those facial grimaces that hold back tears but your post brought me there.

I am posting the core of it again, reformatted slightly.

REQUIUM

Should this amendment pass, I will never fly my flags again, nor will the colors be cased. Because to me this amendment symbolizes the death of the Republic.

Now I give my respect freely. If respect for the flag must be ordered from the free citizenry at the point of a gun, we are no longer free. The flag will no longer be deserving of respect because it will be divorced from what it represents now.

[Meldrim]

It would be interesting to know how many of Linda Grist Cunningham's relatives have served in uniform since 1973.

[Squantos]

I need a burn permit to burn my leaves in the fall......

If a POS burns a flag, hit the loser with the Environazi laws. The Arson laws already on the books, Terrorism laws already on the books.....if that don't work then just drop the pile of books containing BS laws on the flag burning trash....

That aside flag burners are fist magnets when encountered....

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You only confuse people by voluntarily displaying the colors when you don't want to be associalted with anyone who would pledge alegiance to the flag and go into harm's way to uphold the flag.

So I don't think you should wait for this amendment to pass; why don't you make the decision now not to fly the colors?

[From many - one.]

I don't think you got the point of no-s's post.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Perhaps. And perhaps you didn't understand me.

[Salvation]

Now I am totally vindicated in canceling my subscription to a Gannett newspaper.

[fight_truth_decay]

Francis Scott Key (1779 - 1843)opposed to the war but served from 1813-14. "It was the valiant defense of Fort McHenry by American forces during the British attack on September 13, 1814 that inspired 35-year old, poet-lawyer Francis Scott Key to write the poem which was to become our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Key wrote: "Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?..."

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

There can be no law made that can make one honor one's flag. If you give up your flag, you give up "on" your country. I will not give up on my country nor will I ever burn "the grand ol' flag".