I said it was an unforgivable, shameful act to omit the American flag, you monkeyfucks who replied to that. Take it in context and read someone else's post before you fly off your shitters to post yet another knee-jerk overly sentimental patriotic response. I didn't say it was the same thing, I said it came from the same source.
Voltaire - there is no perfect form of government that can be perfectly implemented. We pledge allegiance to a republic, and we're democractic in spirit. We based most of our government off the ancient Greek concept of democracy, and in spirit, we the people should decide our fate, just like the founding fathers wanted to begin with. Yes, there are many truer concepts that can be applied to America than calling it a democracy, and a plutocracy might very well fit the bill, as well as capitalism.
I'm a veteran of the U.S. military. I served my time and was honorably discharged. I love my country, and I'm patriotic. I see our flag as a symbol of our greatness, and would dearly like to punish those who tread on it. I'm all for hanging the people responsible for this farce upside down from the flagpole they left empty. I'd also like to beat the shit out of the assholes who decorate their houses like a fucking red, white, and blue circus in an act of overzealous, misguided patriotism, too. That's my point. Punish the guilty, preserve the innocent. That's what patriotism is about. That's what our great-grandfathers "MilTitle. 'SoldierName'" died for. Condemning an entire country for the actions of a few assholes who deserve our hate and rage, is like shooting a person in the head to cure them of melanoma. That's my point, get it right.