Vet Cuts Down Flag

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My wife's a Japanese national. We had a recent conversation when in Japan a few months ago, that started out from my noticing, that, their country doesn't fly their flag as we do here.

Being relatively new to the States, I'd venture to say that it seems the US fly’s its flag more then any other country in the world, and definitely more then any country I've been to.

In fact, on my travels when I’ve heard Americans being knocked a common negative is about America’s over-patriotism. We call this 'tall poppy syndrome' where I come from. Fuckers hate the fact that Americans actually think Americas cool and don't mind saying it.

Stupid really, there’s a big difference between pride and arrogance and only the small minded can’t tell the difference.

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I don't know, I think there's plenty of arrogance in the US to go along with the pride, Scimitar.

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Yeah, didn't think it was my place being the new guy to go into that sort of detail.

Needless to say from my limited point of view, America is misunderstood in the places I have been, mainly because of the Liberal press agenda and peoples unwillingness to gain an educated opinion.

I.E. Iraq is about the Oil.

Thanks captain obvious. Part of the Iraq mission is to alleviate international oil pressure that if it goes to high will create all kinds of interesting problems.

But it's also about America’s international responsibility to bring peace and stability to our non-American brothers.

Another one I like is if America is willing to free Iraq why doesn't it free Cuba; I'm not even going to answer that one.

But hey I'm just an island boy, what do I know?

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[Defender968]

Originally Posted by 82ndtrooper

IANAL, but I suppose he could be charged with tresspassing on private property and vandalism:

I'd have to check the laws in the state where that occurred, but in SC he could only be charged with larceny as the flag did not belong to him, the trespassing wouldn't work as he was on a sidewalk which is public domain, and even if it was considered part of the businesses property he would have a right to go to the business until he was told otherwise, so unless he'd been thrown out earlier or told he was no longer welcome he would be good on the trespassing. Vandalism maybe, as he did cut the rope, but it would have to be a hell of a liberal judge.

Personally I understand his outrage regardless of what the business owner thought about flying his flag, I think the vet's going to face some legal action, but hopefully he went into that knowingly. I know I deal with Hispanics on a regular basis both in my civilian LE job as well as my military job. One of my troops on my last deployment was from Puerto Rico, didn't speak English well, but was trying very hard, he was an extremely hard worker and probably one of the finest troops I've had the pleasure to work with. He's the type of immigrant I would like to see more of, unfortunately what I deal with on the civilian side is often the other extreme. I see mostly Mexicans who don't speak English, or at least they don't when it's convenient, who have no respect for our laws, and have no intention of assimilating. They strain our medical and legal systems and don't feel bad about it at all. And at the end of the day they want us to understand and accommodate them, but don't want to understand our cultures. My take is this is America, I don't want to press 1 for English, and I don't think flying other countries flags above ours should be tolerated, congress should do something positive for once and put some teeth behind that law, make it enforceable and we the local LEO's would be more than happy to enforce it.