Posted on 05/28/2007 5:06:49 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
(05-28) 15:58 PDT ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. (AP) --
Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
Forty-six flags were burned completely and another 33 were found in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.
Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington's northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon.
The vandals repeated the stunt on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff's office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas.
"This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime," Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Sheriff's department officials declined to comment further on Monday.
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If so, it won't even come close to working. Acts like this tend to have the opposite effect -- gets Americans righteously angry and patriotic. .....and looking to some kick commie/nazi posterior.
Geez...there’s a surprise, eh?
This is the work of a genuine hate America group; and I’m not talking KKK. Contrary to public belief, the official flag of the KKK is the American Flag; they wouldn’t do this. This is the work of people who truly hate America and all it stands for. Why is it that the first thing that comes to mind is Jane Fonda and John Kerry?
I’m betting on the Mexifornia people, the muzzies and others who don’t want our society to exist.
Yeah, but they support the troops. And don't you dare question their patriotism.
You took the words right off of my keyboard.
Little weasly pasty-skinned black-clothed punks.
Typical West Coast stuff.
How about this for a sicko act—in 1996 there was massive vandalism at Gettysburg. Hundreds of monuments were pulled down and severly damaged. In some instances, someone attached ropes to the monuments and pulled them down using a truck.
The monuments at Gettysburg were actually erected by the veterans of that battle after they raised money when they went back to their hometowns after the war.
This happened in Natick MA as well, though there was no report of swastikas. Seems to me it’s a pattern.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Sounds like it’s time to bait the field with more flags and go hunting.
Not ALL West Coast people are sick, deranged luniatics who should be subject to a firing squad. There’s a bunch of Washington Freepers who love this country with all their hearts.
Speaking for me, I am beyond disgusted by the heinous act of pure hatred and idiocy that these sub-human pieces of putrid slime perpetrated on graves of honored American heroes.
If there’s any justice in the world, then these pieces of filth will be caught...hopefully by a PATRIOT...and dealt with accordingly.
Exactly!
The San Juan Islands fill up on holiday weekends with people from a variety of places. I doubt this was the work of island natives.
Since there is no place for violence on Free Republic, it would be wrong of me to suggest that these subhuman slugs should get the snot kicked out of them by the entire county police force after their arrest, so I won’t suggest that at all;)
Mega Bump.
They’re too cowardly to be seen. This is the left in action. They hate and that’s all they know. I want to smash some skulls too.
I like the way that you think.
I certainly would not endorse the idea of private citizens (namely vets such as former SF guys) setting flags in the graveyard and laying in wait and stealthily engaging each punk...one at a time. I certainly would not suggest such a thing.
How big is the island? I once did a mortgage for a client who bought a home there. I thought it was a fairly small place.
“Im betting on the Mexifornia people, the muzzies and others who dont want our society to exist.”
Possibly. But I’m betting it’s the Punk Rock,Metal Freak Satanists. Like the ones that hang out at DU.
Or a combination thereof!
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