Vet and former Playboy model Michelle Manhart scuffles with cops while trying to..

Bama Reb said:

I'll say this much. I know of a particular gathering place (not far from my home) of veterans and their respective family members, several leo's, family members of former military or law enforcement personnel who have passed away and even a sprinkling here and there of active duty military when they're home on leave.
I'm on a first name basis with most of them, and I'm sure I could arrange a little demonstration. Supposing I were to arrange for an American flag to be laid down (on a clean rug or carpet, of course) on the floor and for all these "friends" to gather around it.
For all those who think it's OK to walk on the American flag, I challenge you to just come on over and try to step even one foot on it.
Come on. I dare you.

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PacadermaTideUs said:

Nailed it. I understand her anger, but that's why free expression needs protection - sometimes it's offensive.

My only real problem with the whole thing is that I strongly suspect that if it were a bunch of conservative white Christian men trampling on the Mexican flag, the school would have thrown them off campus for being offensive.

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Tide1986 said:

Our Founding Fathers were evil or insane?

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"I'm a terrorist towards lies," Sheppard said in one video. "I'm a terrorist toward lairs and those who are weak. So yes I am a terrorist toward white people."

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Bama Reb said:

I'll say this much. I know of a particular gathering place (not far from my home) of veterans and their respective family members, several leo's, family members of former military or law enforcement personnel who have passed away and even a sprinkling here and there of active duty military when they're home on leave.
I'm on a first name basis with most of them, and I'm sure I could arrange a little demonstration. Supposing I were to arrange for an American flag to be laid down (on a clean rug or carpet, of course) on the floor and for all these "friends" to gather around it.
For all those who think it's OK to walk on the American flag, I challenge you to just come on over and try to step even one foot on it.
Come on. I dare you.

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Mamacalled said:

At Michigan watching American Sniper was offensive and was initially banned but walking on the flag is ok. What is considered offensive is determined by who it offends. It is ok to offend citizens on the right side of the political spectrum.
I say it was her freedom of speech to grab the flag and she did not physically assault anyone. While no charges were filed against her she has now been dismissed from the university. While I do not approve of then walking on the flag it is the students right but I also have the right to protest. She should not have been dismissed from school.

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crimsonaudio said:

Those who call for war have never spent any time studying it. There's literally no one, other than the evil or insane, who would desire war.

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exiledNms said:

As the great Jimmy Stewart said as Charlie Anderson in Shenandoah:
There's not much I can tell you about this war. It's like all wars, I guess. The undertakers are winning. And the politicians who talk about the glory of it. And the old men who talk about the need of it. And the soldiers, well, they just wanna go home.

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Relayer said:

Yes, and that sounds great. Keep in mind it was Charlie Anderson who said those wise words.

The real Jimmy Stewart, highly decorated bomber pilot, Major General Jimmy Stewart, literally fought to get into action during WWII. Stewart flew many missions over Germany, and even accompanied a bombing mission (some 20 years later) during the Vietnam war.

Though he was in real life, heroic, he didn't glorify in war... and Jimmy Stewart didn't exactly "go home", even though he surely had his chances.

... granted, it was a great movie line, though.

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