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Flags burn in celebration
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | July 4, 2006 | GENEVIEVE BOOKWALTER

Posted on 07/04/2006 3:31:16 PM PDT by RetroSexual

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To: RetroSexual
"It seemed like a good idea to burn some flags just because we can," added fellow organizer Sha Lar, 32, of Santa Cruz.

Moron.

21 posted on 07/04/2006 4:05:30 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: maica
Of course not, that's no fun.

Notice how their "taking back the flag" thing never goes anywhere, because the reaction is "Who's stopping you from showing the flag?" And of course, after they periodically find their love of the flag, it's gone once the cameras aren't around, and they go right back to showing their "Peace" and "UN" and rainbow flags, which are the only ones they can really get behind. (yawn)

22 posted on 07/04/2006 4:06:28 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: FreedomCalls
Maybe they should try burning some crosses "just because they can" and see what happens...

They'd respond by saying "But that symbolizes something we're against"...as opposed to burning the flag. A revealing attitude.

23 posted on 07/04/2006 4:07:46 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: Darkwolf377

The amendment to stop this crap failed by one vote: and one of the voters against it was 12,000 year old Robert Byrd who is up for re-election. He might get re-elected, of course, because he in the King of Pork. However, whether he can vote next time remains to be seen. The other WV Senator had better sense and voted affirmative.
Of course the second annual flag burning may not be the last annual flag burning, but the burners will (a) be doing it elsewhere than in the U.S.; or (b)doing it here because they want some warm place where food is provided; or (c) they like the stories they have heard about prison homosexuality, or (d) they are just the harmless but nettlesome prickly pears who need something to do after sucking the bong all day, with a snort of coke as a chaser later in the early evening.


24 posted on 07/04/2006 4:09:19 PM PDT by mathurine (ua)
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To: Libloather

I was thinking the same thing. With names like Poison Oak and Sha Lar I bet they fly the rainbow flag.

25 posted on 07/04/2006 4:18:42 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: RetroSexual

Getting folks riled up is their goal...it apparently works...


26 posted on 07/04/2006 4:19:55 PM PDT by dakine
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To: RetroSexual
If burning the flag is an exercise of free speech, can we consider such flag-burning as equivalent to the uttering of "fighting words" and beat the crap out of the flag burners? We would be performing an act of free speech ourselves, I should think.

Or could flag-burning be considered "hate speech" and therefore be subject to fine and imprisonment?

How about incitement to riot? Public burning without a permit?

27 posted on 07/04/2006 4:20:22 PM PDT by Doug Loss
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To: RetroSexual
Backwards ass, California city f---s.

Ah, much more fitting saying now.

28 posted on 07/04/2006 4:28:13 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Doug Loss
If burning the flag is an exercise of free speech, can we consider such flag-burning as equivalent to the uttering of "fighting words" and beat the crap out of the flag burners?

Yes. I would hope the courts would agree. It should be treated the same as if it was a cross that was burned. Go burn a cross and see if anyone who attacks you is protected by the law. I'll bet no charges would be brought (unlike if it were a flag).

29 posted on 07/04/2006 4:32:22 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: maica

BUMP! to your post.

Still, it's funny to see them fight to "take back the flag" so they can burn it!


30 posted on 07/04/2006 4:33:12 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: RetroSexual

Barf alert! Those people make me sick!


31 posted on 07/04/2006 4:34:42 PM PDT by Bangupjob
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To: RetroSexual

What would their reaction have been if some one showed up with U.N. flags to burn?

Notice this is Santa-Cruz, Kommifornia.
You know, the same insane bunghole that elects avowed communist as mayor, the community that happily accepted Angela Davis a regent at the local university.


32 posted on 07/04/2006 4:38:09 PM PDT by Richard-SIA ("The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" JEFFERSON)
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To: coconutt2000

They've shown that they are idiots for all the world to see.


33 posted on 07/04/2006 4:40:06 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: FreedomCalls
Maybe they should try burning some crosses "just because they can" and see what happens....

Wonderful idea. If I still live in the area next year, I'll give it a go.

34 posted on 07/04/2006 4:41:34 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: lesser_satan

Neal Boortz had an interesting idea. He said that flag burning should be allowed as a first amendment issue, and that we should make a federal law protecting flag burners which says anyone beating the crap out of a flag burner shall be arrested and fined one dollar.


35 posted on 07/04/2006 4:45:01 PM PDT by Sender ("Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-b*tches we're going up against. By God, I do".)
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To: RetroSexual
"It seemed like a good idea to burn some flags just because we can," added fellow organizer Sha Lar, 32, of Santa Cruz.

"It seems like a good idea to kick these turds in the teeth just because we can," added Freeper Triggerhippie, 38, of St. Augustine.

36 posted on 07/04/2006 4:47:08 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: stands2reason

I saw one man today at our town's Fourth of July parade, carrying two 'War is not the Answer' [white words on a UN blue background] signs. Boy, did he look out of place! He even looked a bit uncomfortable, just too many American flags and happy Americans for his 'sensibilities.'

People who want the UN to put the US in its place are idiots as far as I am concerned. I do not give them the time of day!


37 posted on 07/04/2006 4:58:20 PM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: RetroSexual

I wonder if smoking a cigarette in Santa Cruz is protected?


38 posted on 07/04/2006 4:59:33 PM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: RetroSexual

Poison Oak? Who the heck names their kid 'Poison'? Known to all three of his friends as 'Scratch'.


39 posted on 07/04/2006 5:03:14 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: RetroSexual
"It seemed like a good idea to burn some flags just because we can,"

I wonder if they would be willing to put their lives on the line to defend the flag (and everything it stands for) if we were under attack ?

40 posted on 07/04/2006 5:05:07 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Good news is no news.)
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