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Carl, I’ll try one last time to explain this simple matter so that even you can understand it:

Immediate physical threat, restricted to a given locality and time span, means OK to fly flag upside down.

Any other situation means not OK to fly flag upside down.

Flag upside down is request for immediate assistance to avert threat. Not expression of generalized disgruntlement or even perfectly justified generalized fear.

I strongly doubt whether any Supreme Court decision means that you are likely to lose your life over it in the next few minutes, or even the next few days, and I can’t see what aid you could expect from anyone who sees your distress signal. Therefore, I consider it improper for you to use these decisions as a reason to display the flag upside down.

So yes, I refuse to get your false ideas on when it is proper to fly the flag upside down. I understand your reasoning, but it is simply not true.

I stand by my contention that displaying the flag improperly is disrespectful to it, and that other forms of desecration differ only in the degree of disrespect.

I have spent enough time on this, and will not respond to further posts on the subject. I believe that you are genuinely concerned with the state of things in this country (as am I), and I hope you will reconsider your views on displaying our flag.

Hartley, you keep adding words and phases that are not part of the U.S. Flag Code, and treating your words and phrases as if they are part of the Code. Of course, they are not.

Those who see the current homoterrorism actions of the SCOTUS and its leftist supporters, or other actions by the Obama regime, or the SCOTUS genocide-by-abortion decision of 1973, as "extreme danger to life or property" do not have to restrain themselves from flying the flag upsidedown based on your personal opinions.