Again, Hartley, you keep adding to the U.S. Code your own words, phrases, and irrational expectations. You now claim people should meet some undefined level of effectiveness before their action is justified, at least in your opinion.
The Code does not require one to ascertain how effective the distress signal will be before flying the flag upsidedown.
Carl, I don’t really think you’re a moron, quite yet, just deliberately obtuse. The reason that I am using words and phrases not contained in the flag code (and I have not claimed that they are contained in the Code, despite your implication), is that I have been attempting, futilely, to explain that code to you, since you do not seem to understand it.
I cannot understand how you, or anyone with an ounce of brains, could think that a law was passed specifically to enable doofuses to use the flag of our nation to express their disapproval of the government of that nation.
Just because your idiotic interpretation of the flag law is not actually forbidden by the wording of the law does not for a moment mean that it is correct.