Saturday, June 25, 2005
The Flag
Once more Flag Day has come and gone without anyone knowing or caring, and once more the House of Representatives has proposed a Constitutional Amendment to make burning the damn thing illegal. That's nothing new, but the frightening thing is that this time it's expected to pass the Senate too. What is this country coming to?
Why everyone loves the flag so much is a total mystery anyway. It's a goddam piece of cloth, folks. You blithering morons salute the flag, sing songs about the flag, wave the flag, display the flag, make your children pledge allegiance to the flag, and above all, do your best to make sure everyone else feels exactly the same way, but in all the commotion you've forgotten one key point: this is a fucking rectangle with some stripes on it we're talking about.
Doesn't all this flag-waving seem ominous to anyone else? The flag is just a convenient symbol that we're forced to worship to distract us from what's really going on. The Germans waved Nazi flags while people were being exterminated like insects and the Japansese waved rising-sun flags while they sent kamikaze pilots to their deaths and tortured civilians in secret laboratories. No one paid too much attention to the atrocities because their attantion was focused on waving their flags. I'm not saying that atrocities like these are happening in the United States, but it's definitely true that encouraging people to wave flags is an effective way to prevent them from thinking, as regime after regime has discovered to their advantage.
Flag-worship is a religion like any other, and forcing children to say the pledge of allegiance in school seems an awful lot like organized prayer to me. I don't know about you morons, but I'm not pledging allegiance to a piece of fabric. I don't see what's so special about the flag that people are willing to follow it right off the cliff like lemmings, but they do anyway, without stopping to think about it. That's the whole point of the flag: to make sure no one stops and thinks.
Making it illegal to burn the flag is just the government's way of ensuring that the flag continues to serve their purposes. The more we worship the flag, the dumber we get. And sadly, most of you flag-waving idiots are already far to dumb to realize that.
If you assholes want to practice your sad religion in peace, that's fine with me. You can wave the flag, pledge allegiance to the flag, and blindly follow the flag to your death like everyone else if that's what you want to do. Go ahead and follow it unquestionably, and whatever you do don't think. Thinking is dangerous.
But there is some shit i will not eat. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America gives me the right to freedom of expression, and if that means I need to burn your beloved striped rectangle to express myself, so be it. But go ahead and make it illegal. After all, I'll burn the damn thing anyway and the rest of you bastards won't realize how important your rights are until they're gone. Whatever you do, you won't force me into submission. i will not kiss your fucking flag.
Why everyone loves the flag so much is a total mystery anyway. It's a goddam piece of cloth, folks. You blithering morons salute the flag, sing songs about the flag, wave the flag, display the flag, make your children pledge allegiance to the flag, and above all, do your best to make sure everyone else feels exactly the same way, but in all the commotion you've forgotten one key point: this is a fucking rectangle with some stripes on it we're talking about.
Doesn't all this flag-waving seem ominous to anyone else? The flag is just a convenient symbol that we're forced to worship to distract us from what's really going on. The Germans waved Nazi flags while people were being exterminated like insects and the Japansese waved rising-sun flags while they sent kamikaze pilots to their deaths and tortured civilians in secret laboratories. No one paid too much attention to the atrocities because their attantion was focused on waving their flags. I'm not saying that atrocities like these are happening in the United States, but it's definitely true that encouraging people to wave flags is an effective way to prevent them from thinking, as regime after regime has discovered to their advantage.
Flag-worship is a religion like any other, and forcing children to say the pledge of allegiance in school seems an awful lot like organized prayer to me. I don't know about you morons, but I'm not pledging allegiance to a piece of fabric. I don't see what's so special about the flag that people are willing to follow it right off the cliff like lemmings, but they do anyway, without stopping to think about it. That's the whole point of the flag: to make sure no one stops and thinks.
Making it illegal to burn the flag is just the government's way of ensuring that the flag continues to serve their purposes. The more we worship the flag, the dumber we get. And sadly, most of you flag-waving idiots are already far to dumb to realize that.
If you assholes want to practice your sad religion in peace, that's fine with me. You can wave the flag, pledge allegiance to the flag, and blindly follow the flag to your death like everyone else if that's what you want to do. Go ahead and follow it unquestionably, and whatever you do don't think. Thinking is dangerous.
But there is some shit i will not eat. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America gives me the right to freedom of expression, and if that means I need to burn your beloved striped rectangle to express myself, so be it. But go ahead and make it illegal. After all, I'll burn the damn thing anyway and the rest of you bastards won't realize how important your rights are until they're gone. Whatever you do, you won't force me into submission. i will not kiss your fucking flag.
# posted by Ben @ 8:23 PM 
