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Originally Posted by bonrich
It's hard enough for us Americans to find our Flag for sale in our local stores and if we do, it surely isn't the size we see pictures of when they have a demonstration.
Just something I wonder whenever I see our proud Flag destroyed by the very people we fund with American dollars and American lives that fight for them.
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If you find it "hard" to find a big flag of "the size we see" in demonstrations... there is a store called Walmart which is pretty much everywhere where you can get a 60 inch by 96 inch flag any time you want one. Most demonstrators use a smaller one as 5 feet by 8 feet is too large to easily handle. Ace Hardware has a 3 by 5 foot flag for us to purchase as I would think almost any hardware or general merchandise store does.
If burning a flag were the worst form of protest utilized by aggrieved Americans or foreigners life would be pretty great. Free speech, it is perhaps the greatest of our liberties. I may detest what you say but I will defend your right to say it.....
It is extremely unlikely that the people who chose to burn the flag are the people who we fund or we fight for. It is more likely that those who protest American policy with flag burning have a corrupt government that may be getting dollars and using those dollars to crush opposition voices in their nation. And every American president uses American lives and power to protect the interests of this country. (rare exceptions such as Yugoslavia and Libya where our primary motivation may have been humanitarian, may have been)