Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post



I believe the great Merle Haggard said it best "If you're runnin' down our country, man you're walkin' on the fightin' side of me"

"You made a great play"

What kind of sentence is that?

That is a great example of over egging the pudding. If you listen to the backing music anyone would think he had run into a burning building and saved someone's life. OK so I can understand how people think it's disrespectful to burn a flag and yeah it was kinda neat to just snatch it before they had a chance to do so, but i don't equate that with a great act of heroism. It seems in America if you don't fly a flag you are seen as unpatriotic and In the UK if you do fly a flag you are perceived as a racist. I do not believe either is true. I personally do not have a flag in my Garden but will hang one in the window sometimes when the English football team play to show my support. If i saw somebody burn an English flag I would just think "What a dick" because that flag does not define me and England will still be there however many flags he burns. We live in a democracy and people are free to do what they wish, but being so ashamed of your own country that you are embarrassed by a bit of flag waving is a bit weird and repressed.