Posted on 09/26/2009 10:12:55 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
VALLEY FALLS -- The young man was given three choices: get turned over to the police, go one-on-one in a fight with a seasoned war veteran, or be duct-taped to a flagpole for six hours with a sign around his neck identifying his alleged crime: flag burning.
It was the third option that would still have the small town buzzing a week after a 21-year-old was hunted down and forced to endure a public humiliation with its roots dating to the Middle Ages. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1938 were incensed enough to tie up the man last Sunday after they accused him of setting the flag in front of their building on fire.
Post Commander Nick Normile, a Vietnam War veteran, said the man came into the post's bar Sept. 18 on Poplar Avenue and was eventually turned away for not having a proper ID.
Apparently angered, the young man, who Normile did not want to name, cut the rope of the American flag flying overhead and used a cigarette lighter to set it on fire, Normile and others said.
The man sat pilloried as the village had its fall youth soccer picnic with a long parade of children passing in front of him.
"He'll never disrespect the flag again, I can tell you that," Normile said.
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no, he wrote down the tags of lawbreakers.
It is called community watch
you got something against catching lawbreakers who commit treason against their country???
No cure for stupidity.
I never implied that this jackass had some right to destroy someone else’s property. I was ineffective in expressing my point. He was punished by the crowd, whereas he SHOULD have been reported to the police, resulting in a permanent record. Now, the POS gets off easy with a few hours humiliation. If he breaks a law again, it will be treated as a first offense. The crowd PROTECTED him from being punished by the rule of law.
Well, we have many thuggish idiots here in Texas. We have our share of yankee's trying to keep from freezing their pee pee's off here, but they usually conform or run back home. Please stay away from us as we may waste some of your time putting you in a hospital. We are also armed here and know which end is the business end. If you choose to bun a flag here, you will most likely end up hurt, I don't care how well you think you are protected. You won't make it as well as you seem to think.
Oh, and I appreciate your commendation on my ability to advance the conservative cause. We take particular pride with that here in Texas.
Word. (I learned that from my kids)
...These persons had no right, no matter how distasteful the act, to break the law. Should they be prosecuted, yea, but pilloried or jailed, maybe not. It should be left to the judge or jury...
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