“This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime.”
Peace through flag-burning
Despicable Memorial Day desecration in Orcas Island, Wash.:
Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans’ graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday. Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been….
“This is not an act of free speech. This is a crime,” Sheriff Bill Cumming said in a statement released Monday afternoon.
Except, of course, when it’s “dissent.” Because, you know, “dissent is patriotic.”
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