silly rabbit, patriotism is for kids!
I just opened the front door of the house I'm living in for the summer to discover that someone has spiked a 3 ft. plastic U.S. flag on a balsa wood stake smack into the middle of the front yard.
In fact, not only have they hit "my" house, but every house on the street, and the likelihood that whoever perpetrated this stunning act of patriotism actually paused to ask any of the individual residents' or homeowners' permission before appropriating his or her property is in the highly unlikely to dogs-have-wings-and-hell-has-opened-a-smoothie-stand range.
Friends and countryfolks, this is OFFENSIVE to me. i champion the right of every individual to proclaim allegiance to his/her entity/-ies of choice, and this indeed as creatively and colorfully as possible, but the implication here - that since I reside in the United States, I thus desire by default to display the flag of its government in my flower-bed - is harebrained and sophomoric, and disrespectful to boot.
Because, however, the entire street is now lined with these little flying party napkins, any party who dares remove the disposable ornament so crassly planted in their lawn by an undisclosed donor and dispose of it as s/he deems proper will stick out like a sore thumb in a pea-pickers' line, and by association, will be branded (heaven forbid) UNPATRIOTIC.
Let me work this one out: first, congress crafts a tradition-breaching amendment to the constitution that damn near declares any "desecration of the flag" an act of terrorism and then proceeds, via the power of the people it "represents", to rub that flag in my face?
A word to the wise, sirs and madams - don't tempt me.
In fact, not only have they hit "my" house, but every house on the street, and the likelihood that whoever perpetrated this stunning act of patriotism actually paused to ask any of the individual residents' or homeowners' permission before appropriating his or her property is in the highly unlikely to dogs-have-wings-and-hell-has-opened-a-smoothie-stand range.
Friends and countryfolks, this is OFFENSIVE to me. i champion the right of every individual to proclaim allegiance to his/her entity/-ies of choice, and this indeed as creatively and colorfully as possible, but the implication here - that since I reside in the United States, I thus desire by default to display the flag of its government in my flower-bed - is harebrained and sophomoric, and disrespectful to boot.
Because, however, the entire street is now lined with these little flying party napkins, any party who dares remove the disposable ornament so crassly planted in their lawn by an undisclosed donor and dispose of it as s/he deems proper will stick out like a sore thumb in a pea-pickers' line, and by association, will be branded (heaven forbid) UNPATRIOTIC.
Let me work this one out: first, congress crafts a tradition-breaching amendment to the constitution that damn near declares any "desecration of the flag" an act of terrorism and then proceeds, via the power of the people it "represents", to rub that flag in my face?
A word to the wise, sirs and madams - don't tempt me.