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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 04:56 PM
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Quick! somebody get this photo over to freeperville
Edited on Wed Jun-21-06 05:05 PM by Check12
and watch their heads explode! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!



From: http://www.americablog.com

TITLE 4 > CHAPTER 1 > § 3

§ 3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutilation of flag
Release date: 2006-03-20

Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. The words “flag, standard, colors, or ensign”, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:05 PM
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1. I don't download digital files.
Methinks this is a provocation.

Glad I use UNIX...:evilgrin:
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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:06 PM
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4. Sorry I fixed it, to be jpeg file
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:12 PM
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6. Oops, friendly fire incident.
Recon by fire does have its disadvantages. :)
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:05 PM
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2. pic won't link
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:06 PM
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3. Actually, for Chimpy, signing the flag is an improvement.
Most of the time, he wipes his ass on it.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:08 PM
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5. Proving once again that he holds himself above all rules and laws n/t
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Brazenly Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:21 PM
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7. And he did it in MICHIGAN!!!!
In Michigan, it's illegal to even speak negatively about the flag.

THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931


750.246 Mutilation.

Sec. 246.

Mutilation of flag, etc.—Any person who shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign, coat-of-arms or shield, is guilty of a misdemeanor.


History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.246
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:27 PM
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9. Good thing, because the other law only applies in D.C. Now
will someone prosecute this pos?
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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:27 PM
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10. High crimes and midedemeanors!
This is pricless!
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Brazenly Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:29 PM
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11. and from the Federal Flag Code:
Federal Flag Code
§ 8. Respect for Flag
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
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Ringo84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 05:24 PM
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8. Re:
Clearly, the flag burning thing is a campaign strategy. They wouldn't give a flying f- otherwise.
Ringo
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