A grieving mother flies the US flag upside-down. Anonymous neighbors take action. A farmer follows suit in support. He is charged with disorderly conduct. And he gets death threats.
I wonder if such acts would become felonies if our militant flag-defenders had their way and got their constitutional amendment. Flying the flag upside-down, I mean. Death threats are okay, I guess.
While we’re on the subject of flags (again! what a loser I be), a bit of self-dialogue from that immortal Briton, Eddie Izzard:
We stole countries! That’s how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Sail halfway around the world, stick a flag in. “I claim India for Britain.”
And they’re going, “You can’t claim us. We live here! There’s five hundred million of us.”
“Do you have a flag?”
“We don’t need a flag, this is our country, you bastard!”
“No flag, no country—you can’t have one! That’s the rule that … I’ve just made up.”
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