It’s unfortunate that we cannot generate the same protective enthusiasm for our American flag that some have generated for the denigration of the Confederate Battle Flag.
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Most of the talking heads on TV and radio dislike Rush Lumbaugh, so when he warned Tuesday that the American flag would be the next target of “the offended, “ his remarks were red meat for them. Ridiculous. Far-fetched.
Yet today, with all of the uproar over the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbolism of slavery, CNN’s Ashley Banfield asked whether the Jefferson Monument’s existence was being treated equally since Jefferson was a slave-owner. Ho hum.
You have to be living on another planet if you don’t think the American flag is under siege. Just last month, a school administrator told a student he had to remove the flag, and the POW/MIA flag, from his truck. His ruling didn’t stick.
A couple of years ago, residents of a public housing development in liberal Massachusetts were told they could not display the flag on the exterior of their homes or on the grounds around them on the 4th of July.
In California, students were told they couldn’t display the American flag on Cinco deMayo, and were told to do so was racist.
Those are but a few examples. My friends, the assault on the pledge of allegiance, God and prayer, and yes, the American flag, is real.
