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Date: 2005-05-17 06:45 pm (UTC)Burning the US flag and various reactions to it come to mind. (I condone neither the burning nor the reactions, ok? It seems to me that people have gotten rather over the top about the whole burning things-that-symbolize-things-they-care-about here, too.) Other items burned here which caused rather a hullabaloo have been draft cards and bras. Union organizers and laborers have always been in the line of trigger-happy fire, not for their actions but for the ideals they were trying to bring into our reality.
And in the current spate of inexcusable murder, could it be that the rage had less to do with the perceived treatment of the perceived "holy" object, and more to do with the perceived treatment of the people held in G.B. and other incarceration camps our tax monies are funding? It is not clear to me what the riots were about; and the US news media has not been a very reliable source for that sort of information about events I've seen personally. Did they get it right this time? Do we know?
That said, yeah, we'd better fight for the ideals of the enlightenment. Right here in our country, where its light is flickering and threatening to blink out by the votes of an alarming percentage of the population. I'll be with you on the barricades of liberty in this country. The rest of the world - I'll be happier when our energy (in the form of soldiers and money) is right back at home. I see no benefit to us, the people, to being the global cop with a nuclear baton.