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To: Berlin_Freeper

Someone with greater knowledge than I will have to answer this question, but is altering it in this manner considered desecration of the flag? Yeah, I know it is a desecration to put Obozo’s image on it, but I mean legally.


10 posted on 03/14/2012 10:43:05 AM PDT by Robwin
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To: Robwin

Desecration of the US flag has been 100% legal, at least since the ‘60’s.


36 posted on 03/14/2012 11:41:28 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty ("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." --Winston Churchill)
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To: Robwin
...is altering it in this manner considered desecration of the flag?

I'm amazed at the number of folks I see in FR that post comments without reading the link, where you would have learned FL state law as it relates to PUBLIC property and lands:

Statute 256.05, which covers improper use of state or United States flag, or other symbol of authority, reads: "No person shall, in any manner, for exhibition or display:

"(1) Place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color, ensign or shield of the United States or of this state, or authorized by any law of the United States or this state; or

"(2) Expose to public view any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield upon which shall have been printed, painted or otherwise produced, or to which shall have been attached, appended, affixed or annexed any such word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing or advertisement."

40 posted on 03/14/2012 11:53:28 AM PDT by QT3.14 (Life is not a Dress Rehearsal - it is Showtime!!)
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