Nero just got a new fiddle, I see.

[pasithea]

Woot!

It sounds like it's time for me to print up flyers that say, 'YOUR CAR IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW' on one side and have the flag codes on the other side and stick them on every single right-wing asshat's car that has a faded decal, a ribbon witha flag printed on it, or a tattered rag dangling from their antenna. The majority of flags are defiled by so-called patriots, and not by the people who chose to use it as a method to exercise their freedom of speech.


So... Now I'm out for some good fun. Designing a flyer, gonna go print it up and then stick it under offending car wipers. Take that, conservative asshats!

EDIT: So I made some flyers and I'm off to stick em on windshields! Print your own!

Comments

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I have bigger issues with the people who got rich selling trash Americana after 9/11 than with those who merely bought it, but the point is very much worth making.

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

"If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents." said Rep. Jerrold Nadler.

I need to write a thank you letter to this guy.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Nadler is kinda neat.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Not to be a party pooper... but technically, the flag code isn't legally enforceable. It's just a set of guidelines.

[chisparoja.livejournal.com]

Not to be a party pooper... but the CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT makes it legally enforceable, that´s the whole point of it.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Right.

If it passes (which I highly doubt, this isn't the first time this has been brought up), we can then go after every flag-waving jingoist who uses the flag in a manner contrary to that amendment.

[chisparoja.livejournal.com]

Well it seems pretty likely the American Senate will approve it, the question is will 38 of their states also approve it. I'd say the chances for that are quite good, and certainly about a hundred times better than those the doomed US Equal Rights Amendment had.

Hopefully you will be right and I will be wrong, but you'll understand if I don't stick around to find out. :p

[lediva.livejournal.com]

it seems pretty likely the American Senate will approve it

This is where we disagree. The House passes all sorts of crazy laws all the time and the Senate exists to act as a filter, among other things.

Besides, the general tide is turning against Bush and his cronies. He's currently riding at under 50% approval, and as I recall, support for the Iraq war is at about 40% and dropping. The American people are starting to come to their senses about this sort of thing.

Heck, just the other day, an attempt at killing a filibuster on John Bolton's nomination failed. So our elected officials are starting to cobble together rudimentary spines.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

What you say? That's crazy evolution talk! You say they'll crawl up out of the slime, develop spines and eventually stop being cold-blooded? I don't believe you!

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Evolution? What are you, a liberal?

Them spines is 100% American ingenuity[*], missy! Ain't no evolution about it!

[*] American ingenuity made from 75% post-consumer outsourced Indian ingenuity.

[bohor.livejournal.com]

Can you include a section that says vehicle over 6000 pounds aren't allowed on residential streets?

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

It hasn't passed the senate or been signed into law yet! hold your fire. It's going to die in the senate anyways. the house always passes idiotic crap like this that the senate has to calm down.

[sapphire-d.livejournal.com]

I figure that there's more issue in the fact that it's being brought up in the first place. Could be just me, but I'm looking at an attempt to erode first amendment rights.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

The shit that gets brought up in the House, it'd turn your hair white. ;-)

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

After browsing bills on the website that lists many of them, I've been trying to get a hair dye that will actually last 10 minutes...

fun one: Removing presidential term limits.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Maybe for an encore we can make it illegal to say anything bad about the president!

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

I've probably said this to some people before, but the BEST case of this I saw was someone who affixed one of those cheap american flags to their rear windshield wiper... The flag had gotten caught underneath the wiper, so whenever they wiped their car's windshield, they wiped it with the american flag.