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Steve T said:
It's pretty fair to assume that they extremist liberals.



As noted before, Ithaca is full of extremist liberals.

For example, check out this attack on the flag in today's newspaper:

    I am ignorant as to why Chief Signer removed the flags from the uniforms of our police department members, but I'm glad she did it for my own reasons.

    Instead of being a symbol of hard work, thoughtfulness and openness to new ideas, the Bush Administration has usurped this symbol of freedom with its lies and "if you're not with us you're against us" philosophy.

    The flag is wrongly being treated as representative of an administration and should not be used to identify people as "for" or "against" their own country.


Now, people can disagree on the pros and/or cons of the Bush administration. However, and especially given all the "red white and blue" that John Kerry's people wave around (and the fact he has an approximately 50/50 chance of being elected president today), the idea that the flag should be banned because it has become a symbol of the "lies" of the Bush administration is one of the most screwed up things I have ever read in my life.

Furthermore, the idea that the letter writer finds it offensive that the flag of a nation might be a symbol of love for that nation makes one wonder just what in hell she thinks a flag is for.

I have little doubt this letter writer will, if Kerry wins today, find another reason to hate the flag tomorrow.