It is an improper display of the flag, and thus disrespectful of it, to fly it upside down for any reason other than to request assistance with immediate physical danger. That means actual danger, not political disgruntlement or other forms of personal butthurt.
A lot of people, including quite a few on FR, seem to think that it’s OK to disrespect the flag as long as it’s done out of self-perceived patriotic motives. Strange logic.
Thank you for your input, nerd.
Just another clueless Boomercon midwit, wholly oblivious to the reality of the world in which he now lives.
A lot of people, including quite a few on FR, seem to think that it’s OK to disrespect the flag as long as it’s done out of self-perceived patriotic motives. Strange logic.
Get over yourself KAREN.
I’ll have to look up my OLD flag book, but IIRC it simply states “distress”. Not “physical danger” or any real specifics. Now, I always interpreted that as severe political danger, as in they’re taking over NOW.
So my view has been it’s simply perhaps too glibly used to indicate some kind of distress. Indeed this is minor and so should really not be used for personal “danger” calls. But Idont necessarily see it as the equal of tearing down the flag and stomping it into the ground, or burning, etc. as I stated it’s maybe about the same level as constantly lowering the flag which is done far too much nowadays by people in power.