Hometown Flag Controversy...

[WILMASBOYL78]

News update...just heard from my Poughkeepsie source...the flags are back on the trucks!!


-wilma [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

[markinnaples]

These days people just look for crap to complain about, idiots.

[earntaz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body">These days people just look for crap to complain about, idiots.</div></div>

AMEN!!!

[HawkX66]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Craig_Maiorana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The fact that there are &quot;Americans&quot; trying to push this crap through really bothers me ... If anyone is ashamed or offended by our flag's then feel free to try another country and see if they are as understanding to your sensitive needs. Absolutely ridiculous ... These people should be ashamed of themselves [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] </div></div>
There are no Americans pushing this crap. There are plenty of scumbags that live in America pushing this crap though.

[ORIGLS6]

BIG STEVE FOR PRESIDENT ! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

[Craig_Maiorana]

Yeah I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt for at the bare minimum being born here ... but yeah that is right on the $$$ Scumbags to the bone .. Thank you for your service [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

[PeteLeathersac]

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Sorry but most of us here are all immigrants if you dig back far enough and I have no problem w/ someone who wants peace/freedom to raise their families here in the US and Canada also is wanting/willing to leave the grief of their old worlds behind them.
What I don't get is how so many who flee countries of strife don't seem to appreciate peace/freedom etc and want to kiss the soil and salute the Flags of their new homes also keep it free of the type of individuals and BS they fled from...not bring grief/customs/unsavory characters over here to North America thus ruining this world too?
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~ Pete

[markinnaples]

Pete, it comes down to assimilation. I believe it's fine to keep some of your customs and love of your native country of course, but if you come to America, you should want to become part of America, strive to meet your version of the American dream, and be a contributing member of society, and all of that includes learning English. I'm from an immigrant-heavy (including many, many illegal immigrants) who are happy to function in a gray area of America, and that's unacceptable. Register, pay taxes, become part of the Great Experiment. Just my opinion.

[HawkX66]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PeteLeathersac</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
What I don't get is how so many who flee countries of strife don't seem to appreciate peace/freedom etc and want to kiss the soil and salute the Flags of their new homes also keep it free of the type of individuals and BS they fled from...not [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]
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I think you'll find a majority of the pot stirrers of today were born here and have never set foot out of their ghetto. I'll leave politics out of this... Actual immigrants who come to this country legally I think you'll find are more American then half the people who have lived here their whole lives. I think they probably appreciate the Constitution and Bill of Rights more than most people know.

[68l30]

FWIW...Our POW/MIA flag is back in the air. A new flag was ordered with funds donated to the cause...


BIG [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]