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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I hope they are caught and prosecuted. Sounds like they will if the sheriff gets hold of them. Being an island, shouldn't be too hard to find them, especially if they are locals.
[Mr] T
Is it time to shrug yet?
From San Francisco, the shining city of Liberal Tolerance and Light.
One more excellent illustration of the fact that liberalism is a psychological condition, rather than any set of coherent political beliefs.
Just realized it was in WA... second sentence still holds true.
Probably being reported in the SF Times to “rally” the hometown Communist “troops”, lest anyone forget there’s still an illegal war in Iraq where 645,846,357,243 civilians have been murdered by US Nazi stormtroopers.
One more pic to add to the file of “peaceful, troop supporting anarchist”
[Mr] T
I have a pet peeve about people ripping SF and California, but freely acknowledge much of it is justified in this leftist led den of iniquity. In this case though, something like this could just as easily occurred in SF as in Washington and that is a real shame on both areas.
But then, I would not mind if we could give them the same treatment that the King's men gave to the honorable Mr. Wallace.
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