Posted on 07/15/2011 6:41:44 AM PDT by massmike
Who is torching American flags?
It’s a disturbing and potentially dangerous trend in one New Jersey community, reports CBS 2’s Scott Rapoport.
A day or two before the Fourth of July, two homes on West Colfax Avenue and another on East Lincoln Avenue all had their flags burned. The charred black remains of Robert Lingenfelter’s flag are still stuck to his pavement.
Then just this past Tuesday a home on Chestnut Street had its flag torched.
Throughout the town many are asking themselves the same questions: who’s doing this and why?
Roselle Park police officers are on the case and more than a little concerned. They said the flag burnings are more than just a disrespectful act; it’s an act of arson.
“The danger is the flag is attached to the residence. And if the residence were to catch fire you’re now endangering lives,” Roselle Police Chief Paul Morrison said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
Chief, can you say “stake-out”?
How about “surveillance cameras”?
It seems odd that the Left would are asking for the tree of Liberty watered while they are in power
How ‘bout a law that says if you catch a flag burner, you can't be prosecuted for your immediate actions.
Religion-Of-Peas alert?
Including The Rainbow Flag?
Oh. Wait. Of course not. That would be a hate crime.
Time to start burning korans, Mexican flags, rainbow flags, obama effigies and pictures of Che’ as an answer....
Yes, but my understanding of that is that you have to own the flag that you're burning.
I read this article as saying that the flags that are being burned are someone else's property.
Did Bill and Bernardine take a trip to New Jersey?
I read this article as saying that the flags that are being burned are someone else's property.
That's how I read it too. Someone is burning flags that are hanging in the front of other people's houses. At the very least, wouldn't that be trespassing and/or vandalism??
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arson?
Oh yeah. That too. Just like the cop said in the article. That's what I get for skimming, I guess. lol
A lot of these flags appear to be hanging off homes. Setting fire to part of an occupied residence is arson, a felony. In many jurisdictions, arson of an occupied dwelling justifies use of deadly force.
Someone sets fire to something attached to my house and we got serious problems.
Yes, but my understanding of that is that you have to own the flag that you're burning.
I read this article as saying that the flags that are being burned are someone else's property.
That's how I read the article. What you have here is criminal trespass and arson. Arson being a felony. If more than one person is involved, then there's a conspiracy. If a single perp did it, but asked someone else to participate, that's solicitation to engage in a conspiracy. While I don't know what NJ law is on this, at least here in Texas if someone is attempting to commit a crime against you at night, you can shoot them with full justification, and I guarantee that if I saw someone trying to light up something attached to my house (with the obvious danger of the house itself catching fire) then that someone will have several more holes in their body when they leave my property than when they entered.
We can debate the legal and moral merits of burning your own flag that is not attached to the property of another all day long, but it is clear that some very serious crimes were perpetrated here. People literally could have died because of this (and burning to death is not exactly the most pleasant way to go), so I don't particularly care if it was a prank, a gang initiation or some ideological or religious compulsion that caused the perps to do this - the police need to investigate this and when apprehended the perps need to get a felony record and spend time in the Graybar Hotel.
It’s Obama slaves symbolizing what their master is doing to America.
Just some Democrat. All someone needs to do is put up a discreet surveillance camera, and post images of the burner on the Internet, and he will be boned. But, if you catch him in the act, just give him a nunchaku massage and send him on his way, most assuredly *not* publishing the video.
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