Collectivism under a government symbol is irrational. The flag represents "the country" no more than the Crips colors represent neighborhoods they claim.
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Collectivism under a government symbol is irrational. The flag represents "the country" no more than the Crips colors represent neighborhoods they claim.
The crips colors do represent the neighborhood their 'set' is from. Some where light blue or even indigeo but, that's besides the point. The american flag represents America not the American government. If thats the case is it called "The American Government Flag"? No
No and no.
The flag is imposed upon those neighborhoods by the gang to define their claimed territorial monopoly in violence through usurpation of the property rights of the residents. Just like governments, merely on a smaller scale.
There is a lot more to a county than just the government. I think that very few people who proudly fly the flag are displaying pride in the government. To many people the flag is a symbol of freedom and our culture. Whether or not the government acts in the best interest of freedom or the county's people is a separate matter altogether.
It is also worth noting that big government liberals are less likely to take pride in the flag than people who want less government. So while the flag may be a government symbol to you, it is apparently not a government symbol to the people who want more government, or the people who want less government. In fact, the correlation appears to be in the opposite direction.
The flag is a symbol for government, plain and simple. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/chapter-1
Big Government people of any stripe believe that government itself is sacred, regardless of how they treat its various symbols. The offices, "public places," and boundaries it claims to own are venerated religiously. Its privileges are treated as natural rights, while natural rights are impugned. This religious veneration must be rejected utterly. It is idolatry.
The government represented by that flag violates the natural rights to life, liberty, and property on a daily basis as a necessary part of its operation. This applies to all governments. I'd burn a Canadian flag, the Stars and Stripes, the Confederate Battle Flag, the EU flag, the Israeli flag, the Saudi Arabian flag, the Chinese flag, or any other with equal disdain.
If you buy a bit of cloth, it is yours to use as you see fit unless you violate the life, liberty, or property of another. It is utterly irrelevant whether it has a flag pattern of some sort, it is a t-shirt from a rock concert, or a bedspread, or anything else. It is yours to use and dispose of as you see fit. that is what liberty and property rights mean.
Even if the flag somehow still stands for freedom despite all this, the principle is not harmed when people use their own property as they see fit, even when they "desecrate" the symbol of freedom.
I realize people have the right to burn the flag, I'm just saying I don't like it when they choose to do so, and I have explained why. I think that we are just going to have to agree to disagree.