What is wrong with this picture?
Is this more proof that Old Glory has taken a back seat to other countries flags? It seems that it is alright to burn or desecrate the American flag while people get arrested for burning foreign flags. Although there would appear to be some attached reasons for the arrest of Roy Warden, the actual arrest has stimmed from the burning of the Mexican Flag at a rally held in Tucson on Tuesday. Warden is a member of the group Border Guardians that showed up in counter-protest to the Immigration marchers on Tuesday. The incident took place at around 2:15 pm but an arrest of Warden did not take place until 4:30 pm, marcher organizers were wanting to know why the arrest took so long, as is Warden. However, my question would be WHY it took place at all. The Mexican flag is not protected under any American Laws, that I am aware of, so therefore there should not have been any attention given to the action. Does this show that there are more concerns over protecting anything that is not American?
This is up there as the number one time that I came across an article and shouted WTF! The office agrees with me.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of whether you agree with what he did... How is it that SCOTUS found the 1st Amendment includes burning the US flag. BUT
Did I not read the fine print where it stated ONLY the US Flag?