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Am waiting for someone to feel sorry for the law violator...

Your link does not seem to work.

Are you saying that CNN feels sorry for the man who stole that American Flag?

After all, as I am not an expect on Nevada Law, I suspect that there is a law in that state against Theft of Private Property.

My apologies-- I posted the HTML incorrectly and failed to proofread..., CNN founded by Ted Turner, and has behaved in a sympathetic manner towards liberals since at least clinton. The supporters of illegal migrants in our area are in general...liberal.

I've searched the US CODE, Located HERE, and cannot find the results. Strange, especially if the code is 4 USC Sec. 7, as suggested by the link in the article. But via that link...is says (note quote) in times of peace, flags of different nations can be flown at same height, but different staffs.. ???

Hope these links work. If not, I got them here...1st link under google.

title 4 chapter 1

Position and manner of display

EXERPTS

(c) No other flag or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the flag of the United States of America, except during church services conducted by naval chaplains at sea, when the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for the personnel of the Navy. No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United States at any place within the United States or any Territory or possession thereof: Provided, That nothing in this section shall make unlawful the continuance of the practice heretofore followed of displaying the flag of the United Nations in a position of superior prominence or honor, and other national flags in positions of equal prominence or honor, with that of the flag of the United States at the headquarters of the United Nations.

(g) When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace.

------------Am currently looking for enforcement of the code....

http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=cmty.leveld&did=2479

Public Law 94-344, known as the Federal Flag Code, contains rules for handling and displaying the U.S. flag. While the federal code contains no penalties for misusing the flag, states have their own flag codes and may impose penalties. The language of the federal code makes clear that the flag is a living symbol.

In response to a Supreme Court decision which held that a state law prohibiting flag burning was unconstitutional, Congress enacted the Flag Protection Act in 1989. It provides that anyone who knowingly desecrates the flag may be fined and/or imprisoned for up to one year. However, this law was challenged by the Supreme Court in a 1990 decision that the Flag Protection Act violates the First Amendment free speech protections.

NEVADA:

Apparently, Pahrump Nevada made it illegal to display a foreign flag unless a US Flag is flown above it. (per cnn’s link under the google results page)
http://www.google.com/search?q=US++flag+in+Pahrump%2C+Nevada&btnG=Search&hl=en

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Nrs/NRS-118A.html
NRS 118A.325 Right of tenant to display flag of the United States in certain areas; conditions and limitations on exercise of right.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a landlord or an agent or employee of a landlord shall not prohibit a tenant from engaging in the display of the flag of the United States within such physical portion of the premises as that tenant has a right to occupy and use exclusively.

2. The provisions of this section do not:

(a) Apply to the display of the flag of the United States for commercial advertising purposes.

(b) Preclude a landlord or an agent or employee of a landlord from adopting rules that reasonably restrict the placement and manner of the display of the flag of the United States by a tenant.

3. In any action commenced to enforce the provisions of this section, the prevailing party is entitled to recover reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.

4. As used in this section, “display of the flag of the United States” means a flag of the United States that is:

(a) Made of cloth, fabric or paper;

(b) Displayed from a pole or staff or in a window; and