A Republican Flying An Upside-Down Flag!!!

[PoconoPragmatist]

OK...here's the link to the article...and make note, as you read, that the man flying the upside-down flag is a REPUBLICAN...folks!!

http://www.pennlive.com/expresstimes/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1184937312193380.xml&coll=2


Flag flap flutters away
Despite complaints, District attorney won't prosecute man who flies upside-down flag in protest.
Friday, July 20, 2007
By PRECIOUS PETTY
The Express-Times

WASHINGTON TWP. | If it were up to Tania Meixsell, Joseph Yamrus would face criminal penalties for hanging the Stars and Stripes upside down.

But Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli decided prosecuting Yamrus for insulting the American flag wouldn't fly.

He withdrew a charge of insults to national or commonwealth flags against the township man last week.

A patriot's outrage

Meixsell, a self-described military brat, spotted Yamrus' flag on a ride home from Pizza Hut one day and complained to township police.

The mother of four and wife of an Army reservist thinks the display is unpatriotic and a sign that Yamrus, an Army veteran, doesn't support the troops in Iraq.

"Me and my husband are extremely upset by it," the 27-year-old Bangor resident said Thursday. "I'd hate to see any mother or wife of a soldier go by and see it."

Yamrus said the flag is an expression of his displeasure with the country's top politicians not its troops.

***CLICK THE ABOVE LINK FOR ENTIRE STORY!!!***

And this is a link to the PDF file of the front page of this morning's newspaper, with the above-referenced article ON THE FRONT PAGE!!

http://www.pennlive.com/expresstimes/pdf/friday_pa.pdf

Holy Toledo, Batman...you mean there are REPUBLICANS who are "unAmerican" "unpatriotic" "wimps" "cut-and-run advocates??"

Whudathunkit??
CAN WE FUCKING IMPEACH YET??

[Madspirit]

1. k&r...n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Shouldn't that be, "My husband and I are extremely upset by it,"?

Oh well. :shrug: I think "unpatriotic" is supporting an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation that didn't deserve to be bomb and occupied and using taxpayers' dollars too do it. But that's just me. According too these pro war people, the troops are fighting for our "freedoms", which includes the right to voice our displeasure with the current administration's policies with regard to this occupation. They can't have it both ways.

[malaise]

6. No that's

moran English.

[PurpleChez]

24. Long before these Dark Times it always amused me how the tighty-righties

could yammer on and on and on and on about big government, government interfering in their personal business, etc., and yet time and time and time again they have insisted that government at every level work to ensure that they never encounter anything they might find offensive or simply which challenges their own beliefs. "That bothers me...I'm calling the cops!" Wah! Wah! Wahhhh!

Mad props to officials back home in the P-A for not pressing charges.

[snappyturtle]

3. Off to the greatest! I just might dig out old glory and turn her on her head too. nt

[The Doctor.]

4. There are more than you think.

From what I gather, a flag flown upside-down indicates the ship is in peril.

[JuniperLea]

8. That's true...

And it is perfectly appropriate to fly the American flag upside down as a distress signal. It's in all the flag etiquette books from VFW to Boy Scouts of America.

[karlrschneider]

5. Well, the flag guy is a prick too but he should be free to do it.

...

[KaptBunnyPants]

10. Why is he a prick?

edit: nevermind, I should read before I ask...

[quiet.american]

7. But what an idiot the guy still is -- he thinks Nancy Pelosi "might as well be Hanoi Jane."nt

[PoconoPragmatist]

15. I Never Said I Liked Him

I was pointing out the fact that a REPUBLICAN...you know...the "patriots" the "real Amurikkkans" the "non-lily-livered cut-and-run" folks....one of THEM was flying an upside down flag. It is the HYPOCRISY I was pointing out.

All those flag-waving, gun-toting, terbacky-chawing redneck Republicans.

[quiet.american]

20. Yes, I got that -- your point -- and it is a good one. It's just that he's still such an idiot. :)nt

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

23. Pretty funny he had to call the ACLU for legal assist.

Irony.

[Swamp Rat]

9. Cannibal refucklicans

:loveya:

[NJmaverick]

11. Typical GOP hypocrite

The minute HIS liberties are threatened he turns to the say ACLU he has been bashing for years.

[PoconoPragmatist]

12. Thanks Guys!! My First Greatest!!

food for thought...

Wonder if the guy flying the upside down flag had been a Democrat? Ya think maybe the case mighta gone forward?

Things that make ya go hmmmmmm....

[pepperbear]

13. Now there's an endorsement for the ACLU!

Yamrus isn't usually a fan of the ACLU, but he admitted Thursday that the watchdog organization made all the difference for him. His flag is still waving, upside down, of course.

"I'm within my First Amendment rights. It was a trumped-up charge," he said. "The officer's been by my house numerous times and never said nothing until she made the complaint."


You're flinging flanging right you're within your first amendment rights! Kindly remember that when someone wants to go further with the flag, OK?

[PoconoPragmatist]

16. Yup!!

And kindly remember that WE are within OUR first Amendment rights when we say things you don't want to hear!!

- All progress has resulted from people holding unpopular views - Aldai E. Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois.

[PurpleChez]

25. just remember that the next time you see an anti-Bush sign

or the next time you want to cut off funding for the library because it's got the Harry Potter books on the shelves.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. 'I believe in freedom of speech fully,' the 27-year-old said.

I just don't think that's the way he should be going about it."



Translation: "I believe in freedom of speech for those I agree with."



Further translation: "I don't believe in freedom of speech."

[PoconoPragmatist]

17. Nail. Head. Direct Hit. n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. So what's this asshole's military record?

No military service to brag about.......hmmm.....

Spends a lot of time griping about Democrats, but of course not a bad word to say about Chimpy. What a fraud.

[eggman67]

22. Actually the article refers to him as an Army veteran n/t

[Richard Steele]

19. K&R

[DemGa]

21. "Me and my husband"

Well, that says a lot.

[west michigan]

26. That jumped out at me too....

Morans. :rofl: