4th of July Gives Police The Right To Violate YOUR First Amendment Rights!

"It is pretty bad when I go and fight a tyrannical government somewhere else, and then I come home to find it right here at my front door."

That's a great quote by "Iraqi War" veteran, Vito Congine Jr. Well if you haven't heard, ol' Vito decide to fly his American flag upside-down as a sign of distress outside a restaurant he'd spent beaucoup "American" dollars to start only to be denied a liquor license. So, right before the parade was to commence on the Fourth of July, Police came to rip the flag down. For why? Because people in the little town in Wisconsin were upset and felt the gesture was a disrespect aim towards the flag? The chief of police even stated that it was not illegal to fly the flag in such a manner, but people were upset and causing a disruption is illegal. That is just obsurd.

So, upsetting people is a crime now? Well, eventually, they are going to have to come down and put me in front of a firing squad. Right now, I am upset, so maybe we should wrangle up all of those pestering House and Senate members and lock them away for a while. And, causing a disruption to the lives of millions of U.S. citizens is not the only crime most of them have committed.

So, now, American flag etiquette doesn't apply when people don't like it. Do you want to know what upsets me and causes disruptions to the lives of 40 million American "citizens"? The great symbol of the culture of the South, the flag of the Confederate States of America. This hate symbol is flown, pressed to bumpers, windows, and clothing, and displayed by idividuals daily--not to mention the State of Mississippi still uses it on it's flag. And for you who say, That's not what it represents... Sit somewhere. There is no way I could wear a shirt, tattoo my body, or fly a flag with a swastika on it without catching flack for it. The swastika has been around for thousands of years, way before Hitler and the rise of Germany. It has since then been stigmatized as a symbol of hate, just as the blue X with 13 stars on a red backdrop.

In conclusion, I say, if we don't want to piss people off how about we do add an amendment to repeal the first amendment and deem it null. Until then, shut the hell up... or not--say and do whatever you feel. But, for now, I'm going to fly my flag upside-down IN THE DARK. Turn Your Page...

~J.R. Junior

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J One Royal Fam Says:

Nobody really cares about the 4th of July anymore anyways. When a holiday comes up, especially when your at school or work, nobody cares what it means, they're just happy that they lost a days wage because they don't have to go to work or school. No one sits back and thinks about what this day or any holiday means. When I was in the Marine Corps some ignorant white fellow came up to me a few days before MLK day and said: "Thanks for giving me the weekend off, I wouldn't have made it a whole week at work!" I'm pretty sure that during that weekend he was not going to teach himself or his children why it really is that we have that day as a holiday or what that man did or said.

I'm am not holier than thou, and I'm not ignorant either. If someone wanted to show how he celebrated this day, that is up to him. I mean he was on his own property, with his own flag, on his own time. This "distraction" or lack thereof, is a display of the American's people of case "eye's wide shut", which is the reason for my signature.

I'm glad that this story reached many people who have their eyes open a little bit and are going to help do something about this ugly case of ignorance. Maybe we all can learn a little lesson in "rights"! Meaning: what they are, what they mean, and where they came from. Yep, I'm talking about that old crusty piece of paper that our elected officials keep stepping and peeing on everyday, The Constitution. Read it..you might learn something.

Open your eyes, that's what they're used for....

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Independence Day and Freedom...

"Give me liberty, or give me death." - Patrick Henry

These are the famous words that was spoken over 200 years ago to express a frustrated man's feelings about his governement. These same words fueled the fires of many people that eventually fought, bleed, and died so we can have our independence. The irony to it all is that these same words of dissent, or the unstoppable chain of events that it spawned, are the very reason why July the 4th is a national holiday. Many Americans seem to have forgotten how and most importantly why this country was founded and is blinded by a politically correct version of an America that doesn't exist.

Growing up in the deep south I have been around many people that still wave their rebel war banner and in most cases it is not because they want to cherish or remember the days once past, but because they were just hateful people. However, I never said anything to them personally about it or got upset to a point where I caused a public outrage to tear them down because I respect their consitutional rights. These rights were given to us for a reason, a reason that trumps any little temper tantrum that possess these so call Americans. The very same reason why these same Americans probably have gun safes filled with enough fire power to take down a small country, and that reason is Freedom.

Freedom is something that is scarce in these days with bills like the Patriot Act and other related bills that these same Americans was so quick to approve of. However, they only approve of it when it benefits them and not when they are told they can't bring toothpaste or lotion onto an airplane because you might be a terrorist. It is okay when government agencies can kick down the door of Achmed that everything is peaceful in the world, but not when the price of their goods or taxes increase to compensate for increased security. Maybe it is just time for us to change our independence day from July the 4th to a day to be named later, because some more famous words where spoken long ago which were;

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin

~truffsekka