From Wikipedia: American Flag rules.

[Courtesy Flush]

Watching a DU video about Tea Partiers, I saw various violations.

Here are the rules of flag etiquette. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code

American flag shirts, napkins, and other items are not allowed. If you have a friend who goes nuts for flags, you might want to share this.

The flag should never have any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind placed on it or attached to it.

[Pholus]

1. Thanks for the link...

I will be using that shortly!

[demigoddess]

2. also if you fly a flag outside

you need to take it down at sunset and put it back up at sunrise. You need to keep it out of the rain. You burn it or bury it when it becomes unusable, you do not throw it away.

I hate people who break those rules.

[Recursion]

4. Not necessarily: properly lit, a flag may be flown at all hours

It is perfectly acceptable to fly the Colors with proper illumination and weather protection at all times.

But just leaving it out on the pole on your front porch doesn't cut it.

[joeglow3]

10. My father installed a spotlight on his flag pole.

[Recursion]

3. I'm one of those crazy ex-Marines who actually takes flag etiquette seriously

Yes, all of your points are spot-on. The Colors should not be used for napkins, t-shirts, Solo cups, and what have you. There is bunting for that.

(I'm leaving the specific image you posted aside for a second: I have a signed Shepard Fairey print which is a defacing of the flag; I think artistic expressions, even those of a racist gun-nut, deserve very very wide leeway.)

The colors should be flown respectfully according to the flag code, and in no other way.

Now, personally, as a veteran I see myself as having fought specifically for the right of any jackass whatsoever to burn or otherwise mistreat the flag I fought for; that's kind of the whole point. Nonetheless, I am merciless, and I mean "cause a huge fucking scene at the car dealership and scream at the top of my lungs" merciless, when it comes to proper display of the Colors by someone who is not making a contrary political statement.

[WatermelonRat]

5. I once found an American flag napkin that was backwards and had too many stripes

[Aristus]

6. Conservatives worked themselves into a spit-spraying fury when Abbie Hoffman wore an American flag

shirt.

Now they scream and screech if you don't.

And it's right there in the Federal Flag Code that if the flag is no longer suitable for public display, it should be destroyed in a solemn and reverent manner, preferably by burning.

I'd like all those flag-fetish right-wingers to explain to me why throwing a soiled, tattered flag into the garbage is a suitable alternative...

[Paladin]

9. And now they have orgasms when the Duck Dynasty oafs do the same thing. (nt)

[oneshooter]

7. The flags of the states shall be lower than the national flag.

Except the Texas State flag. The State of Texas, being a Sovereign Nation of its own when it voluntarily joined the Union, may be displayed at the same level as the National Flag.

[MineralMan]

8. Texas. It's a whole other country.

It's not, though, and I don't think your rule is correct, even in Texas.

In fact, you're wrong: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texasflag.asp