[the anti-liberal]

Imagine posing this hypothetic to a 'English' speaking mexican - suppose someone went down to mexico illegally and took down their flag, which they seem so proud of, and replaced it with a flag of another country, any country.

What do suppose their response would be?

Now imagine trying to explain, patiently, that that is exactly what they're doing here.

Would light dawn on their feeble brows, or would they continue their myopic thinking?

Just a thought.

I agree with you, btw.

[Billthedrill]

Would light dawn on their feeble brows...

Nope. For a lot of the world the U.S. flag is fair game and their own is not. The politics of outrage is strictly a one-way street, and by the time they get any pushback they're so far over the line that somebody gets hurt.

This particular instance was a dumb stunt by a dumb kid but it isn't isolated, as your links reveal. A whole lot of folks need to crank this thing down before it explodes.