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Facebook Covers this Photo I posted:
Happy Flag Day
Today, to “celebrate” Flag Day, I posted the above image of a burning U.S. flag on Facebook. The ironic thing is, that if you are offended by this, then you don’t really know what that rectangular piece of cloth is supposed to stand for: the Constitution and, most importantly, the Bill of Rights.
Of course, that “Bloody Rag of Empire” has fluttered over some of the bloodiest battle grounds in history. From native genocide to genocides in the Middle East, this flag has been on the uniforms of the perpetrators.
Today, as we live in the Upsidedown: liberals are trying to stifle our First Amendment rights as they align with slimy politicians and exploitive billionaires against any speech that makes them uncomfortable. These same liberals seem to be cheering for nuclear annihilation as they join with the lying, captured U.S. media against the nuclear power, Russia. In this case, the liberals love two flags: the Ukrainian one over the U.S. one.
If you are not massively enamored of the Rectangle of Doom, conservatives act like you are burning their own child (like the U.S. has done to millions over the centuries).
Facebook has decided to “cover” the photo I posted because it could bother “sensitive” people. The photo does show a representation of the most violent Empire in history, and I do hope it makes people uncomfortable. Nothing good happens when that Rectangle marches into a country, or community.
In my opinion, everyone on this planet has equal rights to live in peace and prosperity, no matter what their Sky Cloth looks like. If you elevate, a Rectangle over human rights, maybe today would be a good day to reflect on that.
I am sickened by the Confederate flag and everything it represented, but I suggest we need to apply that same standard to the “Stars and Stripes.”
By Steve Fournier:
Pledge This!
We stand beneath the symbol of our union.
We pledge to do whatever must be done
To strengthen those so fragile bonds of conscience
That should unite the multitudes as one.
We might have been a fit and worthy nation
With liberty and justice under law.
Instead, we pledged allegiance to illusion,
To burning, bombing, killing, shock and awe.
Never was a banner so dishonored,
Stars and stripes dragged rudely through the mud.
Boys and girls must wake at each dawn’s twilight.
Reckoning its toll in flesh and blood.
This we pledge, then, as we gaze upon you,
Dreaded symbol all the world around:
Someday by our acts we will redeem you;
To this pledge shall we be ever bound.
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