I just can’t stand it!!! Americans are soooo ignorant it’s almost intolerable!  Folks get all cranked up about the stupidest things and all because they are ignorant of the very laws they think are being violated.

This rant is all about the American flag.

Recently the local news ran an article about some fool who posted a picture on Facebook of himself standing on an American flag.  Then they continued the story with interviews with another individual wearing a shirt with the American flag on it, who roundly denounced the idiot standing on the American flag.

So what’s wrong with this picture?  Well a close examination of the Flag Code will reveal that the one wearing the shirt is just as guilty of violating the laws governing proper respect for our national flag as is the idiot standing on it.

Here’s an excerpt:

• The flag should not be used as “wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery”, or for covering a speaker’s desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins). Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
• The flag should never be drawn back or bunched up in any way.
• The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
• The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose. It should not be embroidered, printed, or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use. Advertising signs should not be attached to the staff or halyard.
• The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, firefighters, police officers, and members of patriotic organizations.

And there’s much more (http://us-flag.net/code/ ), but isn’t this little bit enough to let you know that the citizens of this once great nation blithely ignore the respect and honor our national flag deserves?  You can see it anywhere you care to look.  People mistakenly believe that simply displaying some form of our flag somehow brings honor and respect to the display, when in fact it brazenly dishonors our flag and the nation it once stood for.  This is yet another example of the extreme ignorance that pervades every facet of our American culture.  We are no longer a nation of proud citizens, but instead have become a disjointed conglomeration of self-seeking idiots foolishly proud of their disrespectfulness, deceitfulness, and debauchery.  Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on us and, sadly, we are proud of it.