flag-burning
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palmer1984 just posted a meme that touches on flag-burning. I've always been bewildered by the (mainly American?) objection to burning flags. But if you accept that flag-burning is Bad and Wrong...How do True Patriots care for their ageing flags? Are they stored indefinitely? Given heroic burial (cremation presumably isn't an option)? Is there a patch of desert somewhere, where old flags fly until they disintegrate completely?
The military are big on flags and big on rules; they must have some baroque procedure for getting rid of the old ones.
Also: I've only come across the obsession with flag-burning in an American context. Are there equally small-minded patriots in the UK and elsewhere?
fire starter
Date: 2008-09-25 01:45 pm (UTC)New Labour mooted introducing a flag burning law over here a couple of years ago (when crusher Reed was home office dude) but it got quietly dropped. The one good thing about such a law is that flag burning would rocket... I've always wanted to burn a union jack - preferably in front of fascists - I hope one day I'll get my wish.
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