Hartley, it is you who seems not (or refuses) to get it. The SCOTUS decisions (1973 and 2015) should be treated and dealt with as acts of treason, These opinions and those who support them endanger the lives and property of Americans. For this reason the flag can and should be flown upsidedown until the threat is passed.
Taking my stated reasons and recommendation that the flag be flown upsidedown, your conclusion that flying the flag upsidedown is not much different than trampling or defecating on the flag is duplicitous. First, as I previously noted, the upsidedown flag is not a symbol that the United States is endangering lives and property, but rather it is the traitorous members of SCOTUS, and their supporters, who have endangered the lives and property of U.S. citizens. Second, if you recognize the U.S. Flag Code in 36 USC §176(a), but disagree about whether the level of dire distress or extreme danger exists, then your urging to trample or defecate on the flag shows your contempt for the flag rather than for those who fly the flag upsidedown because they recognize the dire distress and extreme danger of the SCOTUS decisions.
"I will continue to feel contempt for those who display the flag improperly."
It will a misguided feeling of contempt if it is directed to those who fly the flag upsidedown in response to the traitorous SCOTUS decision.
Carl, I’ll try one last time to explain this simple matter so that even you can understand it:
Immediate physical threat, restricted to a given locality and time span, means OK to fly flag upside down.
Any other situation means not OK to fly flag upside down.
Flag upside down is request for immediate assistance to avert threat. Not expression of generalized disgruntlement or even perfectly justified generalized fear.
I strongly doubt whether any Supreme Court decision means that you are likely to lose your life over it in the next few minutes, or even the next few days, and I can’t see what aid you could expect from anyone who sees your distress signal. Therefore, I consider it improper for you to use these decisions as a reason to display the flag upside down.
So yes, I refuse to get your false ideas on when it is proper to fly the flag upside down. I understand your reasoning, but it is simply not true.
I stand by my contention that displaying the flag improperly is disrespectful to it, and that other forms of desecration differ only in the degree of disrespect.
I have spent enough time on this, and will not respond to further posts on the subject. I believe that you are genuinely concerned with the state of things in this country (as am I), and I hope you will reconsider your views on displaying our flag.