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University of Kansas flies defaced American flag on campus (on purpose!)
Fox News ^ | July 11,2018 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 07/11/2018 12:06:39 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Patriots in the Heartland are furious after the University of Kansas raised a defaced American flag on campus. And it was intentional.

The flag, defaced with what looks like black paints and the incongruous image of a sock, is part of an art installation hosted by the Spencer Museum of Art called, “Pledges of Allegiance.”

One of my readers passed along photos of the red, white, blue and black flag flapping in the breeze. And like any right-thinking, red-blooded American patriot he was enraged.

“I’m ashamed to be a Jayhawk,” he told me. “Wake up, America.”

The defaced and desecrated flag is the work of Josephine Meckseper, according to Creative Time, a public arts organization.

“The flag is a collage of an American flag and one of my dripped paintings which resembles the contours of the United States,” Meckseper said in a post on Creative Time’s website. “I divided the shape of the country in two for the flag design to reflect a deeply polarized country in which a president has openly bragged about harassing women and is withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol and UN Human Rights Council.”

So she defaced Old Glory to take a cheap shot at President Trump? How avant-garde.

Speak for yourself, Ms. Meckseper.

A university spokesperson said the photo is of a display from the nationwide "Pledges of Allegiance" public arts project that went up July 5 and is at 13 locations nationwide.

The university said the exhibit is being funded by private donations.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach tells me he is outraged by the exhibit.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jayhawks
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To: Hojczyk

This is ugly and disrespectful. I don’t by their reason for doing it either.


41 posted on 07/11/2018 12:51:15 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: Army Air Corps; yldstrk; zerosix
Oh good grief!

When will this madness end?

42 posted on 07/11/2018 12:59:20 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Mercat

” What can I do?”

Be like Santa....Making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s been naughty or nice.


43 posted on 07/11/2018 1:04:43 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: Hojczyk

The left is deliberately trying to provoke CWII. Do not those idiots realize that they would lose not only the war but their lives as well?


44 posted on 07/11/2018 1:09:17 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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To: beergarden

“.....We had our 8 years of hell...”

So we’re giving them 8 years of Heaven with them kicking and screaming all the way.


45 posted on 07/11/2018 1:10:54 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: Hojczyk

Throw her into a Muslim ghetto in Germany.


46 posted on 07/11/2018 1:20:48 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Salvavida

Speaking of the assault rap, back when there was a battle about whether there could be laws against burning the American flag (not that long ago; my how things changed quickly), my solution to keep things compatible with the First Amendment was simple. Allow the flag burning, and make the assaulting of anyone doing so punishable as an infraction with a $5 fine and no civil lawsuit allowed.


47 posted on 07/11/2018 1:35:40 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Forty-Niner

Yes, sir. That is a fair exchange. It’s not like we go into violence like these jackasses.


48 posted on 07/11/2018 1:38:04 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: Hojczyk

Nothing new....I was there in late 80s early 90s. I’d go to all the Democrat events because the girls were EASY. Commies all over the place even back when being called a commie was a black mark.


49 posted on 07/11/2018 1:38:30 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

I would like to piss in her face and see how she would like it...….


50 posted on 07/11/2018 1:42:28 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: max americana

Well said. I couldn’t agree more.

The Left are violent enemies of the US and want us dead. I don’t understand why many conservatives want to play by “the rules” and refuse to get vicious.

Will Conservatives EVER wake up??


51 posted on 07/11/2018 1:46:28 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Free Tommy Robinson!)
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To: Hojczyk

Sure wished I had a time machine to send them all back to just after Pearl Harbor to see how they’d survive that!!


52 posted on 07/11/2018 1:48:50 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Hojczyk; All

Whoever hoisted that should be executed.


53 posted on 07/11/2018 1:52:28 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Yo-Yo

UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 36 CHAPTER 10, §176(g):
The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

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Would the “thin blue line” flag be similar in this situation?


54 posted on 07/11/2018 1:59:28 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: beergarden

Leftists are enemies of our nation.

It’s that simple.

I agree with you also.


55 posted on 07/11/2018 2:14:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Take a look out there folks. Can you see evidence of a Left Wing Hate Group, perhaps fascist too?)
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To: Hojczyk

And the Left (of course) thinks NOT having government funding for “the arts” is “unamerican”.


56 posted on 07/11/2018 3:24:44 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: mikelets456
UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 36 CHAPTER 10, §176(g):
The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

_______________________________________________

Would the “thin blue line” flag be similar in this situation?

Yes.

57 posted on 07/11/2018 3:29:54 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Hojczyk

What people in Lawrence, KS, won’t stoop to these days!


58 posted on 07/11/2018 4:14:58 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Mercat

Get a concrete saw and cut the pole down.


59 posted on 07/11/2018 6:52:37 PM PDT by Bommer (Jesus is God! Deal with it.)
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

because they’re busy praying for these clowns. i do pray for them...for them to drop dead.


60 posted on 07/12/2018 7:30:32 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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