There must be a crisis of flag burning to warrant amending our Constitution to restrict people’s freedom, yes? There must be a rash of these heinous, un-American acts inundating the country-side to justify Congress stepping into the breach, rather than wasting its time on such trivial matters as Iraq, Social Security, Pension Reform and the protection of endangered white women, right?
Well, knowing how that liberal mainstream media neglects to cover stories of vital interest to the real patriots in our land, I thought I’d do a quick google search to find out who the arsonists of our National Pride are, how many of them there are, and what if anything has been done about their perfidious, traitorous activities.
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The first one I found was this despicable act of cowardice:
And here, another notorious act of desecration by flag arsonists:
(CNS) – Three protesters were arrested Sunday at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, after they tore down and burned a rainbow flag, which symbolizes homosexual rights, and were charged with misdemeanor counts of arson and disorderly conduct, a police spokesman told CNSNews.com.
“The flag they tore down and set on fire did not belong to them and they were charged as a result of that incident,” Lieutenant John Born of the Ohio State Highway Patrol told CNSNews.com.
Or what about this fire loving deviant?
Woman fined for burning rainbow flag
Columbus–In the last of the “flag burning trials,” a Columbus woman who set fire to a gay pride flag flown at the Statehouse for a Pride celebration last June has pleaded guilty to criminal damaging.
Judge Mark S. Froehlich fined Toni Peters $250, placed her on probation for two years and ordered her to pay $40-the cost of the flag-to its owner, Stonewall Columbus.
However, the 26-year old daughter of a Baptist minister declared victory because the rainbow flag will never fly at the Statehouse again.
“It took Chuck Spingola and I to stand up and say what they were doing was wrong, for the state to decide there will be no more of these flags flying,” Peters said in Franklin County Municipal Court. “I feel God got the victory.”
Several weeks after the June 27 flag burning incident, the Capital Square Review and Advisory Board, which controls the Ohio Statehouse grounds, decided that only government flags would fly there.
“For them to say they got what they wanted is appalling,” said Jeff Redfield, executive director of Stonewall Columbus.
“After being found guilty and sentenced, they still don’t believe what they did was wrong,” Redfield said.
And another one; apparently flag desecration is a favorite past time of some people in Ohio:
Spingola was arrested June 23,[2001] along with Thomas R. Meyer, both of Newark, for open burning, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. “Open burning” is setting a public fire for any use other than cooking or smoking tobacco.
Spingola had burned another rainbow flag earlier that day outside of the Broad Street United Methodist Church, where an interfaith Pride service was being held. His act went largely unnoticed by those inside the church, but he was given a warning by police not to do it again.
According to Gloria McCauley, executive director of the Buckeye Regional Anti-Violence Organization, who was in the church, several children outside the church with the protesters had naked male dolls taped together to simulate anal intercourse, with a hangman’s noose around one of the dolls’ heads.
“He was saying we should be stoned to death,” McCauley recalled Spingola’s comments, “and was saying how he could not decide whether to use a two-pound stone and do it at one time, or use small stones and do it slowly.”
It’s so discouraging to see the repetition of these Un-American acts over and over again:
Somebody burned my rainbow flag and apparently stuck a sticker on my car that was parked in the driveway…. It said “homo” on it…. I didn’t find it till later though. I get to drive around for a day before I went and got gas… I got to drive around with a little “homo” sticker on my car.
Yes, Congress is definitely on the right track with this flag burning legislation. But maybe they should consider which flags are most likely to be burned before they restrict it to only one kind of American flag, eh? All flags should be considered equal after all, shouldn’t they?