PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF BUSH DESECRATING A U.S. FLAG!!!

[Walt Starr]

This is flag desecration, plain and simple. IF the Flag Protection amendment were in place today, this would be an impeachable offense.

[rhino91063]

1. Yet the Vets are stangely quite

This would be a major uproar if it were clinton.

[kysrsoze]

30. I'd be less offended if he signed some gal's breasts

Come on! Autographing a flag? That's just contemptible for a president.

[cprise]

36. He's writing "MADE IN CHINA"

So you see, it's OK.

[HFishbine]

38. I thought

He was writing, "Property of the Republican Party."

[Sophree]

39. No kidding!

Me too.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Someone should post this on FR.....

Just for kicks.

[Brian Sweat]

11. Post it on FR and tell them it is Clinton

Then after they get all indignant. Correct yourself.

[BurtWorm]

15. That's an excellent idea!

It kind of looks like Clinton at first glance. Until you notice the pin head.

[The Night Owl]

28. Yes!

Damn... huge opportunity missed if this is not done.

[bryant69]

3. How do we know that isn't that other guy?

Bush's evil twin?

It is pretty bizarre to see him writing on a flag.

http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Loonman]

4. Freeps are eating each other over this one

Quite entertaining.

[WildClarySage]

7. Link?

[Loonman]

8. Link

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952488/posts

[The_Counsel]

12. Very Telling Commentary...

"I wish Clinton had done it so I could get in his grill about it."

...which tells me those guys KNOwW they have no reson to hate Clinton other than that capital "D" after his name... :eyes:

[JohnKleeb]

64. they pulled it and lol

seriously freeps have ought to be the biggest homophobes out there yet I think all the freepers the guys ones especially have a crush on Shrub personally its cute its like having a crush on an actor or actress. Its cute that they have a love affair with Bush then again it revolts me he can do no wrong at least to that guy someone get me a intern give her to Bush get bush to deny that they did it and see the freeps reaction.

[diamond14]

16. hahahahaha...funny to watch freepers try to twist their minor minds

around the idea...their HERO desecrates the USA flag....

some tried to blame it on the person that asked for the signature...typical reTHUGlican blame game...like the pResident of the United States couldn't say "no" and was forced to do it, so as not to offend the person requesting the signature...blamed it on Democratic people...hahahahaha....

they forgot that the pResident deserted his duty during the Vietnam war...

[Walt Starr]

43. Now they are blaming it on liberals!

I would be willing to bet that privately, somebody pointed it out to him later on, and that he won't do it again. For all we know it may have been a liberal who handed it to him just to create some controversy.


342 posted on 07/25/2003 9:03 AM PDT by af_vet_rr

I wonder how much longer it will take before they blame it on Clinton?

[SemperEadem]

55. rationalization

is the last refuge of a doubleminded freeper...

and if the freepers bothered reading their bibles, instead of using it for clubbing people who's ideas they're afraid of, they would know that a doubleminded man is unstable in all his ways...

but that would require them to take responsibility for what they allow themselves to think, and it's too pridefully American-like for them to be so inclined, considering pride goes before destruction and a haughty look before the fall....

[PsN2Wind]

29. Impressive

I was really impressed with the poster at FR that put it in perspective. "It was just a novelty item". (sarcasm off).
So now some of the patriots there say the symbol of our nation is "just a novelty item"

[Brian Sweat]

46. My father served in WWII and Korea

He died last summer. He is burried in a Veterans Cemetary. When we go to visit his grave, we place one of those "novelty items" by his head stone.

[Brian Sweat]

50. Thread Pulled!

Cannot have any dessent on Free Republic. BTW, I am now a registered freeper.

[Walt Starr]

52. WHOOOOOOOOSH

Down the memory hole it goes, can't have Freepers knowing their guy desecrates flags!

[Az]

53. Well that was interesting, Freep thread pulled. weird message left behind

Click the link above and get this message:

According to Zviadist, "I wish I hadn't posted it. It is painful to watch." ( http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=issues_misc&Number=775771&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=0#Post775771 ) Accordingly, I am granting his wish. This is what Zviadist thinks of you: "They are addicted to the state like heroin. They think the teat will never run dry. Dumb f*#$" (except he did not say f*#$- I know you can figure out what he did, or you can look for yourself. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=issues_misc&Number=775720&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=0#Post775720 ) Someone over there said to him, after he said "...You do your screen name justice with this fine post. I am astonished that so many others think the flag is some nothing -- like a sports programme or a baseball. Shocking!...", "Such a deliciously pious tone you've achieved. It must be all that protien. LOL!!" To which he replied "Now now now, remember: I'm posting on TOS. One must take a different tone with them. The pen can do very funny things." This whole affair reminds me of his advice on how to stir things up: Don't be silly. We who have known you for years know how clever you are. I was in no way implying otherwise. I was just saying that many Americans don't know the buttons to push with their Reps. You pushed a good one with your response. That you are smart enought to point out their bullsh!t will scare them. That is part of your power. Use that power sparingly, however, or you will be labeled a pain in the ass and ignored. There are many things you can do. Tell them you are a conservative, a life long Republican, and against the war and that you know many other conservatives against the war in the district. That will shake them up. Get five others from the district to duplicate your efforts..." I thought you all would like to know that you were trolled. Thanks, AM

[LearnedHand]

56. Oh, man!

The thread has been pulled! Drat!

[Chicagonian]

9. Link!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952488/posts

[Brian Sweat]

20. Dammit

I was hoping someone would set them up by telling them it was Clinton.

[Terwilliger]

17. from the page

To: Pan_Yans Wife

>The person wanted him to sign the flag, wouldn't declining have been >rude?

No. It would've been a perfect time to show how to properly respect Old Glory (even a little one like that) by politely declining to deface it and asking for something else to sign.

20 posted on 07/25/2003 7:15 AM PDT by al_c

Too bad he's a war criminal too, eh al?

[Terwilliger]

5. holy cow! I "hate America" yet I would never write on a flag

what a twisted, amoral, sick little fucker Bush is

[pansypoo53219]

25. oh boy

i guess i did desicrating big time. I sharpied out stars til i had close to a 13 stared flag. If celebrating July 4th, do it the right way.

[Punkingal]

6. He is amazing.....

he knows nothing about the flag he supposedly loves so much!

[MetaTrope]

10. Bush family tradition

You don't remember Lauren Bush wrapped in an American flag and dragging it around a parking lot for a magazine cover?

[Brian Sweat]

41. You don't have a link to a picture do you?

[MetaTrope]

57. Here you go

http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a3571.htm

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. barabara bush too

just before ghw bush lost to clinton, she and george walked down the capitol steps with the flag draped around her shoulders like it was a shawl.

[Loonman]

19. BIG error

You're never supposed to drape a flag on you like a shawl.

[Brian Sweat]

51. But, but , but

How else are the Republicans supposed to wrap themselves in the flag?

[Lars39]

14. "Wouldn't declining to sign be rude?" LOL!!!

Strange set of priorities. I didn't like seeing Serena's butt on the flag (that shouldn't have been on the ground). She should have known better.

[Avalux]

23. Well...

the way I see it, there's a big difference between draping yourself in the flag, sitting on it, wearing clothing that looks like the flag and SCRAWLING YOUR NAME ALL OVER IT WITH INK. I don't expect anything less from this guy though - don't expect him to think at all.

[Lars39]

31. No difference whatsoever; disrespect/desecration are both end results.

[alfredo]

18. To make matters worse, he

misspelled his name.

[TacticalPeek]

21. i'll bet he screws up as usual...

and signs it "George W. Nixon"!

[area51]

59. Truth in advertising ...

TacticalPeak said:

"i'll bet he screws up as usual ... and signs it 'George W. Nixon'!"

He should be signing it "George W. Hoover" since his economic policies have virtually destroyed this economy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. My favortite is that it shouldn't really matter, seeing as the flag he

signed only costs 99 cents. So now there are price limits on what determines an American Flag????

:crazy:

[jmm]

26. and it probably was made in China

so it doesn't count as 'Murican. :eyes:

[LuminousX]

24. This is the mentality we fight against...

I don't think a president like Bush can deface the flag but I think that a president like Clinton defaces it even by saluting it.


To them, Bush can do no wrong, ever. They live in a bizarre subjective black and white world where the exact same action taken by two seperate individuals is judged morally different.

[Terwilliger]

27. yeah, but that was a schizophrenic reply

in that same post, the guy says "What do you expect? Anyone who would lie about Saddam being a bad boy just to get our young people killed and to protect his and Cheney's oil interests would not hesitate to deface the flag, would he?"

Very odd.

[prolesunited]

44. And yet

they accuse us of moral relativism. Go figure. :shrug:

[monobrau]

32. Freeper hypocrisy is the best part

My favorite responses:

1.If Clinton did it, it would be bad.
2.It was a cheap flag, so it's ok.
3.Any freeper standing by his principles on this is a "Bush-hater".

I haven't been over there in a while; almost forgot what a bunch of hypocritical "morans" make up Bushco's core supporters.

[kayell]

33. Wow, a post from Freeperland I can agree with

"Added value? I thought George Bush was in service to this country, it's people and it's flag, not a baseball star signing a card. He basically just signed his name on the suffering of all of those died for our freedom and way of life. That is what our flag stands for, it's not a place to sign your name unless you come from trash."

Which one of you evil DUers is over there mascarading?

[Loonman]

37. Hot Buttons

The freeper threads that turn them into sharks at a feeding frenzy are usually threads about immigration, WoDs, and old school conservatism(Democratic or Republican) and Dubya's increasing liberalism(?).

[foole]

34. link (to rate the photo or whatever)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030725/168/4s8z4.html

[Walt Starr]

35. I've been emailing the link

and including a bit about how it's flag desecration according to the Flag Code.

[quilp]

40. WELL, AFTER ALL, IT IS HIS FLAG! Isn't it? n/t

n/t

[Bandit]

45. Right ! If you criticize Bush* you are criticizing America

So the Flag is Bush*'s flag as it represents Bush* and if he wants to treat it in the same manner as he does his military who is going to stop him.

[bushisanidiot]

42. Wonder if AWOL charges those losers to sign his "X"

Got to keep the ca$h rolling in!

[kayell]

47. Two pictures with flags

currently next to each other on yahoo ratings page.

Ramon Javier Reyes, 9, touches the U.S. flag that covers the coffin of his father Army Spc. Ramon Reyes as his mother Cynthia Reyes holds him during his father's funeral in Caguas, Puerto Rico, Thursday, July 24, 2003. Ramon Reyes Torres, an army reservist, was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack last week west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Herminio J. Rodriguez)
President Bush (news - web sites) signs American flags for workers at Beaver Aerospace and Defense after speaking about jobs and economic growth in Livonia, Michigan, Thursday, July 23, 2003. President Bush, in campaign-style speeches in states vital to his re-election, sought Thursday to make sure voters give him credit for rebates heading to millions of taxpayers this week. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

[Rose Siding]

48. Signs flagS?

He did more than one? He did a whole line full of them? Someone would have had to plan that. A campaign worker? The contributor who wons the company? Another chance for no one to be accountable.

[Brian Sweat]

54. I have been giving him the benifit of the doubt

because I thought it was just one flag and maybe he didn't know better. This was a planned event. Disgraceful!

Sure, he doesn't think that this is desecrating the flag because he thinks he is such a great American, but this is one of the most discgraceful things I have seen in a long time.

[Tansy_Gold]

58. Two pictures, two flags

I'm not a flag waver. I have what many would probably call an unhealthy lack of respect for strips of brightly colored fabric sewn together in interesting patterns, thanks to a remarkable high school English teacher who taught me the real meaning of "symbols" back in the good ol' days of the early 60s.

But I also have an unhealthy loathing for hypocrisy, and these two pictures illustrate the abyss of two-facedness the * administration and its legion of right wing fanatic supports have sunk into.

I wish I could afford to have a gazillion color copies of these justapositioned photos printed and slapped on every vehicle in Maricopa County with some stupid pro-* bumper- or window-sticker.

Since I can't afford that, maybe I'll just fax copies to every rightwing media outlet I know.

Tansy Gold

[Cujo]

49. I can't belive it

Can you imagine if Clinton did something like this? The right wing freeper trash would be screaming for his head and pointing out that he was a pot smoking draft dodger...this asshole not only dodged the draft but then went awol from the air national guard and he has the NERVE to fucking desecrate the flag, I've said it before and I'll say it again, this piece of shit is an insult to everyone whos either in the military or was in the military. God..he makes me sick!!!

[Noli Mitangere]

71. yup

.

[The Night Owl]

60. Freepers pulled the thread! LOL!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952488/posts

Gone!

For Freepers, the truth is neither welcome nor tolerated.

[PATRICK]

61. It would be perfectly

appropriate if only it had been the skull and bones flag. You should see the graffiti he sprayed painted on the Statue of Liberty in 2001.

[kskiska]

62. I wonder if Brit Hume and his pals

will be chuckling over this clip at the end of Faux News tonight.

[Walt Starr]

63. Kicking for the evening crowd

Just thought everybody should see how our fearful leader desecrates the flag and shits on everybody.

[wellstone_democrat]

65. Amen

n/t

[Bandit]

66. Kick for folks just getting home from work

:kick: Dignity and Honor indeed.

[grasswire]

67. that's "dignitude" (eom)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

68. kick the crap outta bush* in 04

:kick:

[Individualist]

69. Suggestion for email to send right wingers

Send the flag desecreation picture with the caption "WHY DOES BUSH HATE AMERICA??", add the link to the report in today's Washington Post about the chimp having received warnings about 9/11!!

[BeachBuckeye]

70. No surprise here!

The man is simply amazingly ignorant.

[alphafemale]

72. RW'ers now claiming pic is fake. Kick so link to story will be...

...available.