quote:Originally posted by Doc Demian: That's exactly why dickheads burn flags. Because they know the people who don't agree with them have an emotional investment in the flag and what it stands for.
They are trying to hurt, to goad. They cannot stand someone merely disagreeing with them or being content with having a different point of view. They want to incite a reaction.
A quiet, assured opposition frightens them. They will do anything to break the composure of their opponents, to drag them down to their level, the level of screeching baboons.
Whereas I tend to think that a legitimate government has nothign to fear from having its flag burned as a sign of protest.
A government which unstable cling to its symbols.
"Quiet and assured"... I repeat: an alternative to making one's obvious repulsion for something down by a government is violence.
Tell me, does anyone here have an objection to the burning of a Nazi flag? Or the Iraq flag for Saddam Hussein?
Or what if those two brave cricketers in the World Cup who wore black arm bands to symbolise the death of democracy in Zimbabwe had instead chosen to defy their corrupt and illegitimate government by burning the Zimbabwe flag?
Dare I say... it is just your flag that you do not like being burned?
