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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 10:49:39 AM »
doesn't that violate fed law?

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2009, 10:58:34 AM »
Yep.

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm

But there IS this...

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§10. Modification of rules and customs by President
Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2009, 11:02:50 AM »
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Title 36, US Code, Chapter 10

Section 176:

§176. Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
(e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
(f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
(h) The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.


I don't see anything in the regs that prohibits using a basic outline of the flag and substituting a photograph of a person's head in lieu of the fifty stars within the blue union.

Of course, the fact that it's a caricature of the flag and mixing that with a likeness of a person denotes disrespect in my book, irrespective of what the law says.

This is one of those laws that is never really enforced.
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2009, 11:10:16 AM »


I don't see anything in the regs that prohibits using a basic outline of the flag and substituting a photograph of a person's head in lieu of the fifty stars within the blue union.

Of course, the fact that it's a caricature of the flag and mixing that with a likeness of a person denotes disrespect in my book, irrespective of what the law says.

This is one of those laws that is never really enforced.

It is (g)

[quote(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature. ][/quote]
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2009, 11:11:48 AM »
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Anyone see anything wrong with this?

I don't know, are the Ø-bots gonna get pissy when I hold my Zippo to it?   :fuelfire:
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2009, 11:13:02 AM »
It is (g)

[quote(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature. ]

I'm no lawyer, but I think you'd have a hard time proving that (g) applies.

The stars in the flag are missing. Therefore, it's not a U.S. flag.
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2009, 11:16:52 AM »
I'm no lawyer, but I think you'd have a hard time proving that (g) applies.

The stars in the flag are missing. Therefore, it's not a U.S. flag.

Would "Because I said so" work??? ::)
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2009, 11:19:00 AM »
And the hero worship continues.

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2009, 11:21:01 AM »
I don't know, are the Ø-bots gonna get pissy when I hold my Zippo to it?   :fuelfire:

Too bad that these weren't around during the tea party rallies.  I could just see thousands of these being burnt at one time.

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 11:23:04 AM »
Too bad that these weren't around during the tea party rallies.  I could just see thousands of these being burnt at one time.

We'd have had to file an Environmental Impact Statement for all the carbon that would have been released into the atmosphere.

All that black smoke would have made an eloquent contrast to the white smoke that goes up whenever a Pope (arguable God's representative on Earth) is elected.
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 11:25:07 AM »
Would "Because I said so" work??? ::)

Not today.   :-)
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2009, 11:27:35 AM »
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Not today.   


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That stinks.  Especially since I have always maintained that the world would be a much better place if people would just listen to me. 
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 11:36:55 AM »

 :badmood:

That stinks.  Especially since I have always maintained that the world would be a much better place if people would just listen to me.  

I listened to you just fine!  :bow:   (But what you said doesn't quite jive, unfortunately. But maybe one of the legal beagles on the forum will weigh in.)
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2009, 11:48:06 AM »
I listened to you just fine!  :bow:   (But what you said doesn't quite jive, unfortunately. But maybe one of the legal beagles on the forum will weigh in.)

I guess I should have said:  The world would be a better place, if people did what I said!   :whatever:
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2009, 12:18:04 PM »
That Obama flag is a reminscant of what Che Guevara used.
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2009, 12:21:16 PM »
And yet you'll find post after hypocritical, sanctimonious post on DU complaining about how republicans are supposedly disrespecting the flag.

Also, they've been saying things like, "We need to take back the flag from those (insert long string of insane, profanity-laced moonbat insults here) republicans!" for years now. I guess this is what they meant by that.

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2009, 12:21:41 PM »
That Obama flag is a reminscant of what Che Guevara used.

You didn't think that "American" leftists, moonbats and DUmmies would actually have an ORIGINAL idea, did you?

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2009, 12:30:01 PM »
You didn't think that "American" leftists, moonbats and DUmmies would actually have an ORIGINAL idea, did you?

DUmpmonkey see, DUmpmonkey do.

Indeed. Leftists and moonbats going the same playbook.
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2009, 01:58:03 PM »
We'd have had to file an Environmental Impact Statement for all the carbon that would have been released into the atmosphere.

All that black smoke would have made an eloquent contrast to the white smoke that goes up whenever a Pope (arguable God's representative on Earth) is elected.

Not at all.  I'm sure plenty of people would have pissed on them to put them out, eventually.
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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2009, 05:06:06 PM »
Indeed. Leftists and moonbats going the same playbook.

I'm confused. There's a difference between the two?

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2009, 05:54:23 PM »
Disgusted. To some of us the Colors are sacred.

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2009, 06:36:34 PM »
put the head shot in upsidedown or with the circle with slash across the headshot.

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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2009, 06:39:43 PM »
put the head shot in upsidedown or with the circle with slash across the headshot.

This would work for the most of 0Bama's supporters.


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Re: Anyone see anything wrong with this?
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2009, 07:43:41 PM »
I wonder if it really means that, after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, our president's head is now swelled up bigger than the whole country.   :lmao:
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