Flag Day

Flag Day

Flag-Day-2013

Sunday, June 14th, is Flag Day- a day set aside to honor the Flag of the United States. Without any sense of clairvoyance, we can easily close our eyes and see, almost word-for-word, the news stories in print and on television, for the following day, Monday, June 15th. Some group of university students will exercise their Supreme Court-sanctioned right to tromp on, stomp on, burn and otherwise desecrate the American Flag, while another group of students- students not sanctioned by their respective faculties and administrations, will attempt to counter-protest by waving the American Flag (which on some campuses now constitutes “hate speech”, believe it or not) and tussling with the faculty-and-administration-approved flag burners. Believe it, for it is as predictable as the daily sunrise.

Why?

It can be universally assumed, by both the right and the left, that the Stars and Stripes- constructed of red, white and blue fibers- is something more than a mere piece of cloth or nylon. It is a symbol, albeit loved or loathed, of Americanism- the idea of freedom, independence and self-determination, as well as the cost of that freedom, paid several times over, in both national treasure and the blood of our soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. Generally speaking, it is these values that are as loved by the right as they are scorned by the left, in the constant war of words exchanged between the two.

Elitists in academia, having been well-schooled in the religion (and, yes, it has become a religion) of anti-Americanism from the 1960’s radicals who flocked to academia in the 1970s, now wantonly encourage their students to view America as something to be scorned, hated and vilified, and give tacit as well as enthusiastic approval to desecration of the flag, as an expression of this anti-Americanism. In reality, these young minds who do this, will robotically recite a litany of all of the supposed sins of America’s past and present, while being willfully ignorant of all of the great things America has given and continues to give to the world. While these students bemoan America’s supposed “imperialism”, they blithely ignore American generosity- individual, governmental and, yes, corporate generosity which tangibly aids other countries in times of disaster, and ironically funds their dubious academic studies, to a degree that no other nation in the world can approach.

Talk about dogs biting the very hands that feed them!

Just once, would we like these imbeciles and their mentors to face the reality of what would occur, if the largesse of government and the wealthy patrons who they so despise suddenly dried up.

Just once, would we like to see these indoctrinated idiots, now in the third generation of anti-Americanism in the ivied lecture halls of universities across the land, see how free they would be to march in protest and burn the national flag, in many of the countries they admire- countries which guarantee none of the rights to do so. In reality, they would face long terms of imprisonment, forced labor or, worse, the gallows, a firing squad or beheading by the very same governments they so admire, because of an imaginary social justice they foolishly believe exists in those places.

Just once, would we like to see these effete elitists, tour a veterans hospital, and explain to those hospitalized there, just why it is that their missing arms and legs were supposedly sacrificed for naught, or worse.

No one, who would so easily stomp on, tromp on, or otherwise desecrate or destroy the flag they despise, would dare face any of the above scenarios, for they lack the intestinal fortitude of their own corrosive convictions to do so.

Essentially, these malcontents are nothing more than narcissistic ne’er-do-wells who only express themselves- not so much to trash a piece of cloth or nylon, but rather to shove their hatred of America down the throats of those who think otherwise. Regard them as the pathetic cowards they are, and pity them for their delusions, for by and large, they know not whence they come, nor where they would take us, if given the power to do so.

On Sunday, June 14th, we’ll celebrate Flag Day by flying the Star-Spangled Banner outside our doorstep. As an advisory to anyone who would exercise their freedom of expression to take it down and desecrate it, we want them to know that we will, in turn, be expressing our freedom to protect our home, and our flag, by summarily opening a can of good ole’ American whoop-ass should they try to do so. This is not a threat, by the way- this is privileged information, so we hope they consider themselves duly privileged.

Happy Flag Day.

-Drew Nickell, 12 June 2015

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