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4 Arrested for Flag Burning in Chicago (Chicago 2016 Olympic Banner)
Chicago Police Radio ^
| 09/29/09
| RightHandedWriter
Posted on 09/29/2009 5:48:15 PM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer
Just heard on the police scanner that 4 anti-olympic protestors have been arrested for tearing down and burning a "Chicago 2016" olympic flag at a protest in Downtown Chicago this evening.
The charge was criminal damage to property.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: flagburning; oldglory; olympics
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Would they have been arrested if it was a US flag???
To: Right_Handed_Writer
And yet burning the Stars and Stripes is OK.....
We are living in a world turned upside down.
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posted on
09/29/2009 5:49:59 PM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Right_Handed_Writer
Maybe a lot more will protest the gross misuse of our Government to fly our President to Copenhagen while his home city has children dying almost daily from violence...
Soldiers sitting in Afgahnistan waiting for a word as to why they are there and not getting help...why our Health care is in such a crises it needs to be done NOW or else and why we have the highest unemployment rate and ah the
most important thing on our presidents mind....
pay back the people who helped me get in office...He has a few backs to scratch....Gross Gross injustice!
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posted on
09/29/2009 5:52:31 PM PDT
by
Texas4ever
(God is in control!)
To: Right_Handed_Writer
We should all go out and burn Olympic flags
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posted on
09/29/2009 5:58:12 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: roaddog727
There's an entire tribe of Libertarian freepers who have no problem with public humiliation of Old Glory.
It's free speech doncha’ know.
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posted on
09/29/2009 5:59:37 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(Cass Sunstein is to the Constitution as Lucifer is to the Ten Commandments.)
To: Jacquerie
Please list those evil Libertarians who think it’s okay to burn someone else’s property.
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:00:45 PM PDT
by
nufsed
To: Right_Handed_Writer
The charge was criminal damage to property. Gadaffi finds it worthy of addition to his list of instances when the UN has sat by and not preserved the peace.
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:00:57 PM PDT
by
This_far
(Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
To: Right_Handed_Writer
Thanks for the report...sorry I missed the protest in downtown Chicago this evening at 5:30. Hope someone can report back with what happened....
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:02:14 PM PDT
by
Fu-fu2
To: Right_Handed_Writer
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:22:49 PM PDT
by
montag813
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
To: Right_Handed_Writer
If it goes to Rio Obama will blame Geo Bush as everything is Bush’s fault.
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:23:35 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Cash for Clunkers - A big failure and Obama and rats want us to trust them with our healthcare!)
To: Jacquerie
There’s an entire tribe of Libertarian freepers who have no problem with public humiliation of Old Glory.
I have a BIG problem with it. But that doesn’t mean that I support making it illegal to burn your OWN flag.
Liberty too subtle a concept for you?
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:35:04 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Socialism: The sin of envy, masquerading as a political movement.)
To: Beelzebubba
Theres an entire tribe of Libertarian freepers who have no problem with public humiliation of Old Glory.How about burning a cross in Harlem???
Same thing as far as I am concerned...
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:38:44 PM PDT
by
Sir Francis Dashwood
(Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
To: Right_Handed_Writer
Would they have been arrested if it was a US flag???Or burning a cross in Harlem?
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:40:32 PM PDT
by
Sir Francis Dashwood
(Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
To: montag813
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:42:29 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: roaddog727
I guess the arrest was because the protestors did not burn their own flags but I suppose it was the city’s or olympic committees.
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:57:11 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: montag813
Whoa....potent poster. I see its your work. Very effective
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posted on
09/29/2009 7:06:07 PM PDT
by
MadelineZapeezda
(*I can see Sarah's political ascendancy from my house!!!!! .........*posterchild)
To: GeronL
"We should all go out and burn Olympic flags." And communist chinese flags!!!!
To: Right_Handed_Writer
If it wasn’t their flag, then tough.
If it was theirs, then shame on the Chicago Gestapo.
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posted on
09/29/2009 9:55:44 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(If God didn't want a One Worlder hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created rope)
To: ApplegateRanch
Rush said this morning that he thought for sure that the olympics are coming because obummer wouldn’t go over there if it wasn’t a done deal.
I don’t watch the summer games, winter is better.
The x games are the best and I watch every event except the skateboard and bycycle street.
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posted on
09/29/2009 10:01:18 PM PDT
by
bakoj
To: montag813
Love the poster! Thanks!
Tried to have a t-shirt made with the “Chicago 2016 just say nooooo” (the o’s in the olympic configuration) phrase on it but was turned down because Chicago 2016 is an actual trademark. Mayor Shortshanks and crew are very protective of their business venture.
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posted on
09/30/2009 5:48:46 AM PDT
by
Right_Handed_Writer
(Change the Change -- Vote Right in 2010™)
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