Time to Fly Your Flag At Half Mast

Enterprise Record News Gate ^ | 5/1/10 | Chuck Wolk

[timestax]

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[celtic gal]

I don’t see a problem with that..it just flies alone, not above Old Glory. I’ll have to look for a small Gadsden flag for my flower pot,,just until this loon and traitor is out of the People’s House.

[glocker23]

Now that is funny! Rich Rod and Obama, what a terrible combo

[Tom Hawks]

I will not insult this nation by using it's most important and beloved symbol as a form of petty political protest.

I do not ask that others fly their flag upside down as an insult to this nation, nor do I believe that the article is insinuating such an act. Rather, the purpose of flying one flag upside down is to open the eyes of those who do not realize the gravity of the situation we are in.

Do you not agree that we are now occupied by a regime that is bent on destroying the very fabric of this Republic?

No sir, I do not disrespect this nation nor it's flag of which I and my ancestors have proudly fought and offered our lives for. My grandfather by the way died for the honor to fight against such fascist dictators as Obama desires to be.

If we do not stand up against those who would destroy us from within by protesting in any fashion we see fit, then we do not deserve the right to fly the flag.

No sir, I will do not insult those who will not fly their flag at half mast as you would those who do.

So please, THOSE OF YOU WHO WILL NOT, do not insult those of us who would.

[Irish Eyes]

Sorry, I meant most of that comment for napscoordinator. Please do not take offense to my comment. Somehow I seemed to have typed my comment to napscoordinator twice with one of them going to you. My apologies for sure.

I am doing like about three things on the pc at the same time while I am playing catch with my dog.

I will cut down my pc'ing by two, but I refuse to stop playing with me dog....LOL

Gotcha...been there, done that.

;)

[rlmorel]

Who said I insulted you who would?

I just cannot do it.

[theDentist]

I don't believe I've offered any insults to any such citizen.

My disdain is reserved for a man in an Oval Office who seems to be offended by the very people who protect this nation, as well as a majority of it's citizens.

[OneVike]

Article Ping!

I wrote this article a few Months ago, but I recently rewrote it so that it would be more updated for my new blog at the Enterprise Record Newspaper. I was not going to ping my list on it, but Tom Hawks pinged me that he posted it on FR. It seems there is quite a good discussion going on as to whether or not we should be flying our flag at half mast as I wrote in my article, here is the link to the full article, Time to Fly Your Flag At Half Mast.

Jump on in and give your two cents as to which way you lean.

For flying your flag at half mast (or upside down)

Or keep proudly flying your flag at full mast?

• Send FReep Mail to OneVike to get [ON] or [OFF] article and video Ping List •

Article Ping!

I wrote this article a few Months ago, but I recently rewrote it so that it would be more updated for my new blog at the Enterprise Record Newspaper. I was not going to ping my list on it, but Tom Hawks pinged me that he posted it on FR. It seems there is quite a good discussion going on as to whether or not we should be flying our flag at half mast as I wrote in my article, here is the link to the full article, Time to Fly Your Flag At Half Mast.

Jump on in and give your two cents as to which way you lean.

For flying your flag at half mast (or upside down)

Or keep proudly flying your flag at full mast?

• Send FReep Mail to OneVike to get [ON] or [OFF] article and video Ping List •

[EBH]

There was no insult in what I posted.

If you were insulted or offended in what I wrote as my comment, that is your problem.

I will raise the Flag in the face of danger, not lower it.

I understand perfectly well what our nation is faced with and the Flag is a symbol of our perseverance in our just cause. To lower it, is to mourn. To fly it upside down is distress and a call for help, from where will the help come? If retreat is not our goal, then we shall raise the Flag high and press on in our sacred duties.

Do not insult us who choose to fly the Flag, full staff, unfettered, and in a stiff wind.

[quantim]

LOL!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I too fly USA only on Memorial Day, Vet Day and July 4. I also fly it when it should be at half mast ... sometimes there are "happenings" like 911, and that's the time to fly your flag either at half mast or with the black memorial ribbon. There's also a site to go to where you can sign up for emails that notify you if the flag goes to half mast. Halfmast.com.

The rest of the time I fly a Patriot's Flag that matches the "mood" of my blog. There are some BEAUTIFUL patriot flags. We're used to seeing the Gadsden Flag, but there are many more. And they make a fine statement in the neighborhood. You can see my flags at the Patriot Flag Blog's Gallery. Notice the SC Sovereignty flag ... that's a pretty one. But as I said, they are not just pretty, they make a statement. People see them and wonder what they are. So I've learned the history on each one (and some of these are fascinating) and discuss the flags with them and why I fly them.

If you are looking to "make a statement" with a flag ... try the above. Keep "half mast" for "real" memorials and UP SIDE DOWN for "real" emergencies. There are other ways to "protest" with a flag as I've demonstrated. One day I may do it, but if you see my USA up-side-down, you'll know I've already got the banana clip inserted into the, uh, ... well you know.

The Patriot's Flag Blog

[rlmorel]

By the way, I did not mean to personalize that to “I”, it was a rhetorical question.

I did not see any insult to those of you who wish to protest in this manner. Why would you paint those of us you pinged in that manner?

[Tom Hawks]

It may not be all who disagree with the flying of the flag upside down or at half mast, but GreenLanternCorps for one, said it was an insult to do such a thing.

I for one take offense to anyone saying that I am insulting either this country or the flag for which I fought for.

I ask those those who would object to such a protest, if they would have flown their flag at half mast when Hitler was setting tings up to dissolve the Weimar Republic in Germany March of 1933? Well, I for one consider Obama to be nothing more than an Islamic Fascists who has plans on doing to America what Hitler did to Germany. The proof speaks for itself.

I guess my point is that we have a short time to fix things or we will forever wish we had. Maybe all those of you who will fly your flag at half mast not do not protest against those of us who will. But for anyone to suggest that to do so is an insult against the very country we love is an insult to those of us who do.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Flying the flag of the United States upside down, or at half mast, as an act of political protest, is NEVER JUSTIFIABLE, EVER!

The mere act of doing so, regardless of your stated reasons, places you in the same category as scum like Bill Ayers. My utter contempt for the walking disaster with delusions godhood that is Barak Obama will never driver me to insult the country by word or deed.

You are using the same tactics as the freakazoid left. I would take a good long hard look before you choose to get in the mud with the likes of them.

Oppose the Democrats, fight them at every turn, drive them from office. But, do not treat the flag, which is second only to the Constitution itself, as an item for petty political protest.

[GreenLanternCorps]

To be clear, you may not intend to insult the country by flying the flag at half staff as a protest, but if you do it, then it is an insult by it’s very nature.

Statements to the contrary by you cannot change that.

[rlmorel]

GreenLanternCorps, I agree with you on this.

It does smack of what the Left would do. Just my opinion.

Do I think we are in peril as a nation? Yes, greater now than at any time since 1861.

But flying the flag upside down and at half mast seems to me to be a concession to the left, that they have somehow emerged victorious and that our flag that WE believe in cannot occupy the high ground because the exact same flag THEY fly occupies that ground.

I understand why people want to do it. But I cannot suffer this flag, that I served under, and my father was buried under, to submit in that way as a form of protest.

I will not insult those who do, but I will not do it myself.

[usconservative]

My disdain is reserved for a man in an Oval Office who seems to be offended by the very people who protect this nation, as well as a majority of it's citizens

SPOT ON!!!

[digger48]

not a photoshop

[rlmorel]

That’s not Old Glory. That is a striped bed sheet with the face of a dictator on it. That is clearly burnable and abusable material.

[Korah]

Need I say more?