People try to burn the American flag, Fedex worker runs in to save the flag - General

[media]https://twitter.com/sgrubermiller/status/824680301003677696[/media] Curious on how this will effect his job.

Did those protestors really claim there's an "illuminati" and "One world government"?

Pink hair. Covered faces. Lanky skinny millennial boy. Seems almost like it writes itself. The blonde hair dude was right, burning flags doesn't unite anyone, nor fight 'fascism' cause apparently Trump is a fascist. Delusional.

[QUOTE=Covalent;51736617]Pink hair. Covered faces. Lanky skinny millennial boy. Seems almost like it writes itself. The blonde hair dude was right, burning flags doesn't unite anyone, nor fight 'fascism' cause apparently Trump is a fascist. Delusional.[/QUOTE] How can we fight the illuminati and one world government if we don't burn flags?

Burning the flag isn't treason. Both parties seem pretty bad in this video.

[QUOTE=Thlis;51736620]How can we fight the illuminati and one world government if we don't burn flags?[/QUOTE] By trying to fight one another! That'll solve it!

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51736627]Is is [I]the[/I] most American thing you can do[/QUOTE] Yeah but its still frowned upon even if its within your rights to do so.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51736627]Is is [I]the[/I] most American thing you can do[/QUOTE] Burning the flag or committing treason?

I wonder if burning a flag, while a legal right, violates any local city fire ordinances. Last I checked, uncontrolled burns on public land were illegal :v:

Burning the flag is not [url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381]committing treason[/url], [url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700]but it is illegal however.[/url] Patriotic on the man's behalf, but pretty pointless to put himself at risk of whatever happening over something so mundane.

burning a flag isn't treason you muppet

If the protestors legally owned the flag doesn't that make the Fedex worker a thief.

[QUOTE=OvB;51736697]I wonder if burning a flag, while a legal right, violates any local city fire ordinances. Last I checked, uncontrolled burns on public land were illegal :v:[/QUOTE] It is, and 2 people in the video got charged for violating said ordinance, at least per this Twitter/News post: [media]https://twitter.com/AaYoung15/status/825004533138853888[/media]

I bet $10 the fedex worker is former military. Military folk will [I] so willingly[/I] throw themselves into harms way to rescue a flag like that. [QUOTE=Waffle cones.;51736821]Wasn't this law essentially nullified by the Supreme Court ruling of United States vs Eichman, or am I missing something?[/QUOTE] Yes it was. There were several attempts in congress to override it, but no attempt ever got past the senate. [editline]27th January 2017[/editline] Honestly its why those people were instead charged with violating a burn ordinance. Its all they can legally stamp them with but by god they'll do it in a heartbeat.

[QUOTE=duckmaster;51736756]If the protestors legally owned the flag doesn't that make the Fedex worker a thief.[/QUOTE] What an unamerican cur to violate property rights smh

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;51736850]Military folk will [I] so willingly[/I] throw themselves into harms way to rescue a flag like that.[/QUOTE] Not that I speak for service members, nor am I one, but I imagine if you're the type to actively put yourself in actual combat to serve your country - you'd be a little more than miffed that some sheltered airheads living in that same country are burning its flag because their feelings are hurt and they don't know how to constructively/cooperatively express it.

That flag wasn't being burned to show off freedoms, it was burned to piss people off who believe in our country. [QUOTE=duckmaster;51736756]If the protestors legally owned the flag doesn't that make the Fedex worker a thief.[/QUOTE] Why are you trying to destroy your property in a public area?

I dunno at the very least it's arson ¿

[QUOTE=Cureless;51736721]Burning the flag is not [url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381]committing treason[/url], [url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700]but it is illegal however.[/url] Patriotic on the man's behalf, but pretty pointless to put himself at risk of whatever happening over something so mundane.[/QUOTE] It used to be illegal and it remains written as illegal in the code of law, but the Supreme Court ruled in [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson"]Texas v. Johnson[/URL] that flag burning cannot be prohibited after someone charged with an anti-flag-desecration statute took the case to the Supreme Court on first amendment grounds. So, while it's in the US Code of Law, the Supreme Court overruled that statute and now flag burning and flag desecration is a protected first amendment right. Not illegal.

[QUOTE=Tudd;51736597] Curious on how this will effect his job.[/QUOTE] Promoted, hopefully.

[QUOTE=Lolkork;51737043]That wasn't his flag to take, what a knobend.[/QUOTE] he wont let me burn my flag in protest of the fascist in office :(

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;51736850]I bet $10 the fedex worker is former military. Military folk will [I] so willingly[/I] throw themselves into harms way to rescue a flag like that. Yes it was. There were several attempts in congress to override it, but no attempt ever got past the senate. [editline]27th January 2017[/editline] Honestly its why those people were instead charged with violating a burn ordinance. Its all they can legally stamp them with but by god they'll do it in a heartbeat.[/QUOTE] Ex military types end up in HVAC, not parcel delivery.

[QUOTE=Sally;51736997]That flag wasn't being burned to show off freedoms, it was burned to piss people off who believe in our country. Why are you trying to destroy your property in a public area?[/QUOTE] Doesn't matter my reasons, doesn't give anyone the right to take my shit.

[QUOTE=duckmaster;51737085]Doesn't matter my reasons, doesn't give anyone the right to take my shit.[/QUOTE] If your going to burn shit do it at your house

[QUOTE=Sally;51737089]If your going to burn shit do it at your house[/QUOTE] I agree with that, which is why if it goes against city fire ordinance they should be punished accordingly, I also think the fedex man should be punished for stealing someone elses private property, if it is their property of course.

Dude looks like he belongs on the cover of the next Battlefield game. [t]https://i.imgur.com/jeiMmhg.jpg[/t]

I request that edit. Just look at him pushing them around. [editline]edit[/editline] [T]http://i.imgur.com/JlLmR7Y.png[/T]

Yeah, fighting fascism by burning things on the corner of some street. You're really sticking it to the man.

Aaaand the obligatory girl with pink dyed hair. It is all way to obvious what people these are.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51736627]Is is [I]the[/I] most American thing you can do[/QUOTE] Technically correct What I don't get are the people who get SO ANGRY over it and step in to prevent it. You want to defend the flag and what it stands for? What does it really stand for though? The fact that in our entire history there hasn't been a time where a group of people had less (or none at all) rights than others? That people die simply because they don't have the money for something that is FREE in EVERY first world country? A voting system that's essentially pointless? A government that lets corporations write the fucking laws? (ISPs and telecommunication laws for example) In theory the flag stands for something great, but in practice, for now, it's bullshit Once upon a time the American Flag was a great symbol. But now when I look at it all I see is Greed and a government that shelters itself from the public