Sipsey Street Irregulars: I guess he didn't get the memo on Flag Day.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

I guess he didn't get the memo on Flag Day.

But flags are symbols. They are shorthand for who you are and what you represent. And what you love. -- Flags, Both True and False. My speech at Belchertown MA upon the occasion of Flag Day, 14 June 2014.

Mayor wants apology after city flag used as drop cloth

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: WTF?

who is the jackass that thought that was a good idea? were they even an American?; September 10, 2014 at 9:18 AM
skybill said...: Hi Mike,
Somewhere along the line this dude fell off the turnip truck! Before Boy Scouts, Before Cub Scouts, Before Kiddiegarden, my Parents and all significant others in our community began teaching us "Respect for our Countrys' Flag!" It goes back that far. The only out this dude may have is that he just got to this Country yesterday...and I seriously doubt that!! He has "NO" excuse for his action and remarks!
Got Gunz??,
III%,
skybill-out; September 10, 2014 at 1:32 PM
Anonymous said...: True story:

One evening, as we reported to work at a large public "futility", I and several of my co-workers noticed the rent-a-cops on the security detail had taken down the American flag, wadded it up like someone's dirty sheets and stuffed it on top of a file cabinet in the guard shack in plain view of anyone entering the building. This became a topic of some debate among us while we waited for the official shift change-over. Two former members of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children decided a letter to the editor or an email to the company president was not going to cut it. They proceeded back down to the guard shack and in short order forced their way inside, promised the guards that unpleasant things would happen if they didn't back off and pay close attention, and gave a quick demonstration on proper flag folding and etiquette.

Needless to say letters to the editor, company president, and both of Florida's U. S. Senators were sent as follow up. There was a whole lot of hand wringing and butt covering in the responses we received, but thereafter the flag was always on that file cabinet, but neatly folded into the proper triangle shape.; September 10, 2014 at 3:31 PM
Neil E. Wright said...: Here's the followup story. JD Johnson was demoted, but he's keeping his $21/hour salary. Given that he was on a 120-day probationary period, he should have been FIRED.

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/26491424/2014/09/09/city-employee-demoted-after-sullying-american-flag; September 11, 2014 at 7:49 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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I guess he didn't get the memo on Flag Day.

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