Fly a flag on Fitzmas Day!

[Timbuk3]

I just read a fantastic idea on an open thread on dKos, and I want to do what I can to spread it around. http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/10/26/212245/60/18#18

The day after the indictments are handed down, fly a flag.

Celebrate the end of the politicization of criminality. Drink some champagne, take the day off, do whatever suits you to rejoice in the rebirth of American democracy after 5 long, nightmarish years. But buy a flag on a pole and fly it in front of your house.

I've never whored for recs before, but this isn't my idea so I don't feel so guilty about it. If you think YankInUK's idea is worth a try, recommend this post and help make sure people see it.

A brief history. A man who was drunk for 40 years but had a great family name decided he wanted to "lead the country" but he didn't have the first clue how. A group of neocons who called themselves "the Vulcans" flew into Austin every weekend for months to school this boob. He OWED them.

These Vulcans http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm had already decided that Iraq needed invading http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm , and needed it bad. The worst of them had even written at length about it http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Cheney's_Song_America.html , and assured the student that if he became President he could enact whatever heinous social agenda he had in mind. All he had to do was win a war that would take only a few days, and would "pay for itself." http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/iraqquotes_web.htm

President mean and stubborn thought that was a great idea, so after the United States suffered the greatest attack on contintental soil in our history he agreed to use that as an excuse to attack a country that had nothing to do with it. But all of the evil gnomes knew that they couldn't sell the war to congress without "going nuclear" with the threat posed by Iraq. So they lied about it, and the media helped them.

Well, one way or another, indictments of these liars will be a sign that we're taking our country back from these self-serving bastards. (No one knows how much Halliburton has made on the Iraq war. Seriously. Much of the money is "off the books.") I can't think of a better reason to fly the flag, proudly, for the first time in literally YEARS!

[Betsy Ross]

1. I will fly the Betsy Ross flag

Against King George then, against King George now.