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No. The story is about an act of vandalism that involved the burning of an American flag. Neither of which would be a thread starter without the other.
And yet, it took several posts for the word associated with the illegal activity (vandalism) to show up in this thread. To top it off, you took offense to my quote on the subject.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Joshua
For example: Graveyards often are vandalized when headstones are knocked down. Legally this is simple vandalism, emotionally this is an attack on the memory of someone's loved one. Do you understand?
Vandalism? Hell yeah. It should have been obvious several posts ago.
And yet, it took several posts for the word associated with the illegal activity (vandalism) to show up in this thread. To top it off, you took offense to my quote on the subject.
The word vandalism showed up after someone asked the what was wrong with what happened. And I didn't take offense to anything.
LSU campus found a burned American flag on the ground and the LSU flag missing. Some are automatically blaming Muslims angry over bin laden's execution. It could just as well be some America hating college professor or student.
One of my friend's Facebook wall is filled with a back-and-forth in which she laments how we've "committed murder," we're a "terrorist state," etc.
She's a new-age spiritualist who, on the one hand, doesn't like Islam because of how it subjugates women and spiritual/religious minorities in their nations... but on the other hand, she thinks that they're inherently virtuous because they aren't Christian, and most of them are nonwhite. She views him as a "bad person," but thinks that "we are worse." It's caused a debate in which the people who are in her program are echoing her sentiments, and just about everyone else is telling her she's being really over the top. She's about to finish a social work program at a major West Coast state university; before a couple years ago, she never would have said anything like this, but now? This is how she reacts to basically anything in the media. We had a disagreement over directions once when we were roommates and driving somewhere, and she lambasted me about how my "white male privilege always makes me think I'm right" when I insisted it would be shorter to take surface streets due to traffic.
Contrast that with one of my friends who's a Pakistani Muslim woman, who texted me right after his demise: "did u hear we kill osama?? ahaha i am so happy," "my family r happiest people in world," and "ya he killed so many innocent people god will never forgive him what ever he did."
Who do you think is more apt to burn a flag in the wake of all this?
FTR, I'm a liberal... I just can't stand the left fringe anymore than I can stand the right fringe.
LSU campus found a burned American flag on the ground and the LSU flag missing. Some are automatically blaming Muslims angry over bin laden's execution. It could just as well be some America hating college professor or student.
Depends, if the ass kicking you get if I see you burning the American flag.
That is war on my nation.
Interesting. The people of Charleston ripped down the Stars and Stripes in 1861 and stomped on them in public after secession was declared. Boy how times change.
Yes, and it was in the 40th post when the thread would be apparently a non-starter without it. Yet, you took offense to my (following) post. Why?
No EinsteinsGhost, vandalism was brought up on the first page. Maybe not the word, but certainly the fact that it had occurred was brought up.
And again, I was not offended by your post, I just could not figure out how someone who has the audacity to call himself EinsteinsGhost was clearly not understanding what the brouha was about. Or were you just being provocative?
No EinsteinsGhost, vandalism was brought up on the first page. Maybe not the word, but certainly the fact that it had occurred was brought up.
And again, I was not offended by your post, I just could not figure out how someone who has the audacity to call himself EinsteinsGhost was clearly not understanding what the brouha was about. Or were you just being provocative?
For provocation, look at the title of the thread which focuses on flag burning not vandalism which ends up being an irrelevant fact until people start discussing legality of flag burning.
I showed up with my argument to make sure vandalism wasn't being overlooked as the primary argument on legality, while for you it was secondary. Or else, you would have noticed the provocative nature of the thread's title and the initial posts.
Do you not see sensationalism and "targets" written all over this thread? Perhaps I should ask, which (first) post in this thread would you classify as being provocative?
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