Posted on 03/23/2019 8:31:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
It is mostly a matter of intent. When liberals burn a U.S. flag it is intended to be disrespectful and offensive. When I take a worn out flag to the local VFW to burn it is intended to be a demonstration of respect for the flag and for what the flag represents.
Works for me. Starting threads on FB is too confusing and picky. I don’t bother.
Thanks, Albion! ^/\^
Thanks for the ping!
MAGA!
YES HAPPY DAY!
I remember conservatives across the country on FR rebuking those who use the flag loosely after 9/11, and for all the tattered flags. I wasn’t aware of that feeling before but I adopted it completely. I especially don’t like clothing made out of the Stars and Stripes. Thank you Free Republic for all your lessons in conservatism, too many to ever count.
I once spoke to someone quite well known who was a little miffed at some comments on FR about him, and I told him, “Those people taught me what it means to be a conservative,” and he nodded silently, and I could see in his expression that he forgave you all for whatever it was you said about him.
In Mark Rudd’s book, he tells how when he was teaching high school kids, some of them said their parents wanted to know what he did before he became a teacher.
He told them (something like), “I founded and ran an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the United States government.”
That’s great.
SMH
There was some guy who admits to being a terrorist in the 70s and is teaching somewhere.
Maybe this is the guy.
I don’t recall. Saw it on TV some years back.
Bill Ayers was also teaching and may still be teaching, but I think on a higher level than high school.
I was really interested in the Rudd book because Columbia is in my neighborhood and I knew people who had been involved in the protests back in the late sixties. I was amazed to learn that the black kids took over their own building during the riots and people came from Harlem, which is like a stone’s throw away, and brought them food and blankets and stuff, and guns.
I know nothing of this insanity as I missed it, born in ‘68, and it certainly wasn’t in the history books.
Took over buildings? Brought guns?
Looks like I missed a lot of action.
I missed it pretty much while it was happening, but later met people who had taken part. Two roommates at the Business School who had a cat named Che. But I still didn’t know the whole story till I read Rudd’s book.
A coworker of mine was SDS and took part in the Days of Rage.
I was still apolitical in those days although I went to a Vietnam moratorium demonstration in Washington, mostly just to go on the jaunt with friends. Almost everyone I knew was Dem or more leftist than that. I just stayed out of it till the early nineties.
:)
There is a lot of conservatives in New York, you just don’t see them because the lamestream press never covers their actions. During the Obama years the NY/NJ Teapartiers gathered by the thousands down by City Hall. NY is sort of like the Soviet Union. Only what information the left wants gets out.
That is so great to know.
What a shame the New York Times doesn’t celebrate the diversity.
The NY Slimes is good for lining birdcages. They are liers and traitors.
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