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Subject: Re: OUT WITH THEM ALL! - The Portland Surrealists' A21 Statement
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:22:12 +0100
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Brandon Freels <brandon_freels@aaahawk.com> wrote:
> [flag burning]
> But, I tried to explain to him, Bush DOES
> represent the worst of what that flag has to offer.
You should have just burnt the ugly stripey bit, and kept
the nice stars. Or is it the other way around?
> Later I saw the same yahoo trying to physically
> stop someone from burning another flag.
I don't think that flag-burning is very helpful. It is
generally so emotive that the act obscures the point being
made. Flag burning is useful in the main for only one
purpose -- to whip up emotions so as to obscure the real
issues and short circuit rational debate. Another strategy
on the same lines is the "wrapping yourself in the flag"
version, but I guess you'll leave that to Bush.
#Paul
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