Anti-American Yahoos
The town council of Pahrump, Nevada trampled all over the American flag this week and spit on the graves of everyone who ever fought to defend freedom of speech, voting 3-2 to ban flying any foreign flag above the U.S. flag or alone.
I hereby declare the three idiots who voted for this measure to be un-American and unpatriotic. I’m grateful I don’t live there, but if I did I think I’d be ordering a Mexican flag about now.
November 17th, 2006 at 3:21 PM
Funny, Pahrump, Nevada was featured in the last 2 episodes of “Studio 60” where John Goodman played a local judge who didn’t like Hollywood celebrities. I thought they had made the town up, it’s interesting to see it’s a real place.
November 17th, 2006 at 8:21 PM
Not to disagree with the notion that the Yahoos are knuckleheads. But…. when I was a grade schooler in the early 60’s, I was on the flag detail (or whatever the synonym). It was told to us that it was against the Law for any flag to fly above the American Flag. State flags don’t. Where this comes from, I don’t remember. It may even be Constitutional.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:14 AM
It’s certainly not Constitutional. The founding fathers worried about Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, not the altitude of flags (or whether they are burned). Unfortunately, most of the self-proclaimed patriots of today are total wimps. They cannot accept anything that might offend their sensibilities lest they piss their pants.
Perhaps someone should boo them, although they would probably get a heart attack.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:51 PM
It’s the culture war. A last-ditch effort to maintain a world that never existed.
It’s ironic, hollywood created a make-believe world, (leave it to beaverville) and when the same industry departs from that false reality, people freak and everyone’s seeing handbaskets.
The core is freedom and truth. It’s what people died for. Freedom from tyranny, from a foisted culture, injustice, etc. etc. and we try to hang on by tyranically making new laws.
If we would focus on the core the culture will fall in line, it’s why revolutions work.
The word revolution should come to mind every time we look at our flag, revolutions start from the bottom.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Can’t we all just LOVE our country- AMERICA- the one we live in- not the one our ancestors came from. keep your traditions, and heritage, but we are all Americans we should stand together. I do believe that our flag should come first and on top- just as a matter of respect!! If you are so proud or broken up over this- then go back to that country!!