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I've lived in a couple of gated urbanizations during the last year (I recently moved), and there are still plenty of homes with flags (although, as I said, not as many as after September 11). Maybe you should drive thorugh Tintillo Hills or Torrimar more often.

The American and Puerto Rican flags along the Las Americas Expressway were put up not by the government, but by grass-roots, pro-Navy activists led by state Senator Myriam Ramirez de Ferrer. While it is true that one of the flags put up by Dr. Ramirez was torn down by a left-winger and mailed to her Senate office, that certainly does not constitute American flags getting "torn down all the time."

As for the 4 punks who hoisted Molotov cocktails in Vieques, I did a websearch, and all I could find is that a couple of them were freed because a *Federal* court ruled that there wasn't enough evidence to charge them. Again, while I agree with you that the local police did nothing to stop many of the protestors from breaking the law (the Chief of Police at the time, Pierre Vivoni, was a former liberal judge who was an embarrassment to men in uniform, and allowed protestors to break down fences and illegally go into Navy land), these 4 terrorist wannabees were immediately arrested, and even the spineless Vivoni and several left-wing Vieques agitators went on the record denouncing their acts. If Clinton appointees in the federal judiciary let them go on a technicality, I hardly see how this says anything about the patriotism among the 3.8 million U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico.

"...I hardly see how this says anything about the patriotism among the 3.8 million U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico."

Ok, I'll tell you.

These 4 terrorists wore ski masks and threw 4 Molotov Coctails at a Navy convoy and had 4 more ready to throw when they were caught.

There was hardly a peep out of anybody in Puerto Rico when it happened and not a peep when these 4 were let go.

You live in Puerto Rico and you had to look it up.

The majority of Puerto Ricans are American only if it helps them, when it comes time to collect their benefits or apply for a job.