Not yet.Happened in 2013, can we move on?
Not yet.
The Flag code actually IS Federal law, go ahead and check. Though I didn't know is happened 4 years ago, it did happen in Nevada and the last time I checked that is US soil. Respect does work both ways and they were not giving respect. Thats why they didn't get respect. He stood up for what's right, no one was hurt , and for that I support what he did.
Those flags are not on public display.
They have now been educated.
I don't need to check the flag code, I know it. I said nothing about the flag code. So how far do we go back to make a point? It's 2017.Not yet.
The Flag code actually IS Federal law, go ahead and check. Though I didn't know is happened 4 years ago, it did happen in Nevada and the last time I checked that is US soil. Respect does work both ways and they were not giving respect. Thats why they didn't get respect. He stood up for what's right, no one was hurt , and for that I support what he did.
That's an old video.We already had a thread about that some years ago.
I don't support what that veteran did.Hopefully he got arrested and charged for that theft.
Stealing and destroying someone else's property because you don't agree on how they display their own flag is against the law.
I get that it's not a proper way to display the US flag (having a foreign flag on top on the same pole) but the US Flag Code is not the law, and shouldn't be.
The First Amendment provides people the freedom to display their flag however they want.
If you decide to display your US flag upside down on your front porch do I have the right to steal it and cut it down with a knife? I don't think so!
The law is not different when it's at a restaurant.
I get that vets are passionate about proper flag display, I am too.But in that situation I would have talked to the people who owned those flags and told them about the proper way to display both flags.
I would not just stole their stuff.
That vet also showed no respect to the Mexican flag and yet expected respect for the US flag? Respect works both way.
Sylvain, I know you to be very up on what goes on over here. Thing is, that vet took serious offense and yes, so do I.
Probably should have fed it to the owner.
This is not Mexico and the flag was not flying at the Mexican embassy. It was flying over our flag.
They could have burned the US flag if they wanted, it would have still be illegal to steal their flag.
I've seen vets do that in videos, steal people's flag during protests where people were trying to burn them.
I deplore flag burning of course but people have the rigth to do what they want with their own property even if that offends you.
(If they steal YOUR flag and try to burn it then it's a different story, you can use force to defend your own propety)
This was far from a flag burning though.I'm sure the owners of that restaurant were proud to dispaly both flag and probably just had one pole for both.And didn't know it was not a proper way to display either flag.
That vet should have talked to the owner, not steal his property.
I have great respect for vets but their vet status doesn't allow them to decide who should have a First Amendment rigth and who shouldn't.
Not to mention it could have ended badly for the vet.
Imagine if someone came to your house with a big knife to steal your property.I'm sure it wouldn't end well for the guy.
Sylvain, what if it had been a cafe in the 19th arrondissement flying the ISIS shahada flag above the tricolour