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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:12 PM
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Poll question: Ever personally seen an American flag being burned as a protest?
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 08:15 PM by tuvor
(In the USA, that is...Thanks, Pooja.)
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pooja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:13 PM
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1. Wait... I have but in other countries not the US
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KyndCulture Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:15 PM
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2. I've burned many flags..
oh wait, damn, I was a Girl Scout and they taught us how to retire a tattered or torn flag..

nevermind.


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LA lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:18 PM
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3. yes
I was in college in the 60's and 70's and saw it a few times.

I also saw it happen in Frankfurt Germany on the Roemer.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:20 PM
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4. Yes, in 1991, during protests against Desert Storm.
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 08:20 PM by asthmaticeog
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spag68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:20 PM
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5. flag burning
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 08:20 PM by spag68
Maybe I've lost my memory with age, but I do remember any number of t-shirts bandanas and certainly fireworks with flags on them. Flag burning is preferred to suicide bombs.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:20 PM
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6. You can't change the question after 20 people have replied!
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tlsmith1963 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:28 PM
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7. No One Has Burned the Flag in Years
It used to happen in the '60s & '70s, but I don't think I have seen it since. If they had passed the anti flag-burning thing, the flag-burning would have come back. If you tell someone that they can't do something, it makes them want to do it.

Tammy
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Big Kahuna Donating Member (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:33 PM
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10. It happened in Amherst Mass. a few years ago.
The beer-belly brigadiers on all of the politics forums screamed about it for months.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:12 PM
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16. I have to vehemently disagree with you
flag burning crimes went up 33% this year. This is an epidemic. The total amount of flagburning crimes went up from 3 incidents to 4 incidents. They have got to call out the National Guard to hunt down all 4 of these people and send them to Gitmo......Oh wait, all our Guardsmen are in other countries hunting down brown people. :sarcasm:
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:30 PM
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8. never heard of any one who knows someone who has...
Republicans will fight farting in the wind next. So we smell safer...
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 10:00 PM
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21. LOL!
:D
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MisoWeaver Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:30 PM
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9. I have in the Phillipines
Pretty sure it was an American Flag. I was probably pretty drunk at the time.

Mug Beer Muna Tayo
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KyuzoGator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:34 PM
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11. Only in the countries we're destroying.
In the U.S., not so much.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 08:36 PM
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12. My great-uncle and I retired one when I was a kid.
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 08:36 PM by MercutioATC
...only time I've seen a flag burned.
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Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:03 PM
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13. Nope. And I'm 57 and was around protests in the 60's
I never actually saw anyone burn their draft card either. Only saw it on the news, never in person. Today I wonder if the people doing it (that were filmed for the news) were Nixon operatives sent in to stir up hatred toward the anti-war groups.
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:08 PM
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14. This is exactly what I've always assumed --
agents provocateur from the government -- the hippies and anti-war people I knew were so emotionally distant from the flag it would never have occurred to one of them to burn it -- if you look at early films of flag burnings, the people don't look right. Never could put my finger on it, but they look too well-fed, and I remember one flag burning TV spot where the guys were wearing boots, not sandals -- I think the flag-burnings were made-for-TV psy-ops on the American people.
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yorkiemommie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:56 PM
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19. i saw someone burn his draft card at my university
during an anti VN war protest. He went to Canada afterwards.
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FogerRox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:11 PM
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15. World cant wait... protest in DC... Feb 2006
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 09:11 PM by FogerRox
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:13 PM
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17. Seen a different red white and blue one burned many times on

March 17th through the years but never seen an American one burned.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:24 PM
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18. I saw one burned several years ago at an anti-GMO protest
Edited on Thu Jun-29-06 09:25 PM by Webster Green
It was in Sacramento, CA.

A former community garden in a vacant property had been shut down by the city, but liberated (and re-planted) that day by anti GMO protesters.

I have a pic that I took of the burning flag somewhere, but it would take me a while to track it down.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 09:58 PM
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20. No. Only on TV. n/t
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MamaBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 10:10 PM
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22. Yes.
Yes I did. Once. In May 1970, a day or two after the Kent State killings.
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Biernuts Donating Member (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-29-06 10:16 PM
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23. You don't have to outlaw it - just make the max penalty for shooting
a flag burner a $5 fine, $2 if you bayonet the burner.

Seriously, this is self-policing conduct. If you burn it in the middle of Berkeley, you're probably safe and may get a higher grade. Try that on a US Marine Base, and your stupidity will be recognized in a very physical way.
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