You can stomp on it if you like.
In witness to the videos of people stomping on the flag, refusing to pledge allegiance and participate in prayer in schools, I am reminded of a temperamental child holding his breath until his face turns blue. It's your breath, hold it as long as you can, but are you prepared for the headache to follow?
I can kind of see where you are coming from but you are going about getting your point across the wrong way. First, are you stomping on the American flag or the symbol it represents? Stop holding your breath, open your mouths and just say, "I hate America."Like my friend, Nikkie Sixx (no relation) stated, "If that's what you want just say it. I'm a big girl and I can take it."
Well, America is a big girl and she can certainly take it. It's your right to make examples of yourselves with these antics. But a more lasting and much simpler solution would be to do what's right for you. If I felt that strongly about it, I'd go live under a flag I could respect and take pride in calling my own.
If you have a message to send to the world, the mature and diplomatic way to address it would be to simply state it. As a child I stomped on my algebra book. Looking back, I realize I would have been better served by calmly stating, "I greatly despise algebra and see no use for it in my everyday life." Perhaps I would not have been sent home from school and subsequently grounded.
I can admit I can be a little dense even if others can not. But all I see is you hopping up and down on the flag we drape across the caskets of those that died defending me. Perhaps you don't see what I see when you look at that flag. I see blood, I see sacrifice, I see the human effort to achieve a better way of life for myself and those around me. I don't remember you stopping to look at the camera and stating your reasons. I don't think I would have listened after witnessing your behavior. So again, you are going about this the wrong way.
We all have things we hold dear to us. Pictures of our loved ones that have passed away are really just paper in glass frames on our walls. But they represent the memories and love for those we have lost that we still carry within us. We keep those symbols lest we forget. Those symbols ensure we do not lose even a small part of their memory. I'm sure you may have similar items of great value to you. If you bothered to share with me those symbols you hold dear and sacred would I stomp and spit upon them? No, sir... I would not.
Previously Posted on FullofKnowlege.com
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