Seriously? the American Flag?

[Bob]

Sometimes Bob i wish you could respond in the political forum without the racial bullsh!t. This is about the American flag, not the KKK or the confederate flag, or whites, or blacks or the delusions of an obviously angry man.

Stick to the subject...

if you can't connect the dots, don't get angry. ask questions! my points aren't bull****. blind patriotism is bull****.

 

[Bob]

You actually are saying that 9-11 was a war?
Hmmm seems to me that was a terrorist attack...
The fervor for war that followed was actually whipped up by the flying of planes into the World Trade Center, and the unnecessary loss of Innocent American Citiznes; not by the simple flying of flags.

you're lost....

 

[mtlinscomb]

sometimes the flag is used to whip up fervor for war...see 9-11

sometimes people would prefer our country bending over sans the lube after being attacked. sometimes we elect presidents that bang interns and turn a blind eye to our enemies for 8 years

 

[Andy A]

No Lie:

After 9/11/01, when this nation was unified for a moment and there was a run on American Flags, someone made the statement, "Why would anyone make a pledge of allegiance to a flag anyway?"

I challenged the PhD candidate to review the words right after, "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America........"

Excellent point. All too often we recite the pledge of allegiance without analyzing what it really says. I'd have loved to see the look on the PhD candidate's face.

 

[sunspotbaby]

I'm done. when it takes this route, i just can't stomach anymore.
Thanks for all the responses on my thread. See ya'll.

 

[BobbyB]

you're lost....

really??
I think that if you actually keep in context what we are talking about here, I have been trying to guide us back to a civil conversation.

If you are so bright then enlighten us all on how we would have gone to war just because we were waving our flags if the attack on the WTC had not happened?

According to your words "sometimes the flag is used to whip up fervor for war...see 9-11 "
I believe that this statement coupled with your other posts on here are actually pointing to your own misguided deep seeded hatred and the fact that you are indeed the one who is actually 'lost'.

I will say, Bob, that you alone have made this thread take a wrong turn and you alone have tried to relate the American Flag to Nazi germany, the KKK, etc.

You need help, sir!

 

[Andy A]

if you can't connect the dots, don't get angry. ask questions! my points aren't bull****. blind patriotism is bull****.

And you are definitely full of exactly what you indicate above if you think that patriotism, in any form, is what you imply.

 

[BobbyB]

I'm done. when it takes this route, i just can't stomach anymore.
Thanks for all the responses on my thread. See ya'll.

I agree, some have to ruin it for the rest... I am done.

Thank you sunspot for posting and may I say:

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

 

[Bob]

I'm done. when it takes this route, i just can't stomach anymore.
Thanks for all the responses on my thread. See ya'll.

we love ya sunspot! i was responding to the pill post. wasn't the original post about fox reporting the display of the flag in oregon? i just happen to think there can be too much of a good thing. i don't want the state to line the avenues with flags unless it's memorial day or july 4th. regarding fighting over private displays of the flag, you could do that forever. some people are obnoxious about it, and i believe they are the very folks that like to start wars.

 

[LuciferSam]

OK... I just read this whole thread and whether you are liberal conservative or neither, whether you were born in America or chose to move here, we are all given one unalienable right that is protected by the flag...
IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.
The american flag stands for whichever side you believe and it also stands for the diversity of this great country whether you agree with Alpha or Santiago.
The American Flag should be the only symbol of such that is truly 100% protected by the law as we ALL live in America, this right should be protected unconditionally anywhere and everywhere within our borders. MANY HAVE DIED FOR THAT RIGHT.

A flag never protected anybody or anything. When they make one that can stop a bullet, I'll go along with that.