Flags Burned, Replaced With Swastikas [US Veterans' Graves Vandalized]

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/28/07 | AP

[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.

[Northern Yankee]

I like it!

[ThomasThomas]

SF Gate dosn’t care much about small towns in northwest Washington. Why would they publish this?

Is Whidbey Island Naval Air Station the closest military base?

[beelzepug]

Orcas Island is a 40-minute ferry ride from where I live on Fidalgo Island. It is roughly 60 sq. miles and has a full time population of about 4500 people. I would say that a majority of the locals vote democrat but they are mostly low-key folks who enjoy their island lifestyle and this sort of thing would be very uncharacteristic of them.
To the best of my knowledge there are no muslims and few, if any, Mexicans living on the island. You can only get there by boat or small plane and living is pretty expensive.
My guess would be kids, kids who probably had no idea how this sort of thing would be taken. No excuses for their sorry little butts, but pretty doubtful it was a “hate” crime.

[Shadowstrike]

Agreed. Nor can I repeat what I’d do to the little scum when caught.

[realcleanguy]

I am amazed how far the left will go to show their hatred of US citizens

[Riverman94610]

I will bet you it was the offspring of some white ultra liberal Dems who think this is a way to”rebel”.
I doubt very much this was an illegals protest.Most of them will at least show their faces.

[Minutemen]

Catch and hang em!

[lonestar]

Tokyo Rosie.

[reg45]

Air drop them into North Korea with American Eagle and CIA tattoos.

[GOPJ]

bump

[RaceBannon]

lOCK AND lOAD,

and remember, EVERYONE who served in Iraq is a WAR CRIMINAL, and this moonbat in this video from SATURDAY says so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2pz_MN7N8M

[RaceBannon]

Anyone want to sing Kum-Bay-Yah with me?

[SandRat]

No, but my Scots blood is stirred; I want to gather the Clans and march to the pipes playing "Scotland the Brave" to treat the perpetrators to the same tender mercies that William Wallace gave to the British.

[PGalt]

BTTT

[river rat]

Nah....I’m not much of a singer...
But when the time comes to go “postal” and commence adjusting some brain housing groups -— count me in..

[river rat]

Nah....I’m not much of a singer...
But when the time comes to go “postal” and commence adjusting some brain housing groups -— count me in..

[Dick Vomer]

Nothing that night vision, 2 or 3 guys with plastic cuffs and baseball bats can’t fix.

[DuncanWaring]

...treat the perpetrators to the same tender mercies that William Wallace gave to the British.

I'd rather treat them to the tender mercies that the British gave to William Wallace.

[SandRat]

Either one works well.

[Theresawithanh]

Yeah, we are a blue state, but go further east and you’ll find it’s way more conservative. That’s the left coast for you. Too bad we can’t push the libs into the ocean and start anew.