TERRORIST WATCH: Flag-waving terrorist Rep. Allen West DISRESPECTS flag by taking it under water.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Happy Flag Day! The Second Continental Congress selected the stars and stripes as our official flag on June 14, 1777, and each year on that date we think about flags, or something. (It is a state holiday in Pennsylvania, apparently.) Most liberals hate the flag, obviously, but true American Tea Party Patriots across the nation are all outside saluting and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and they will continue doing so until sundown.

Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., celebrated Flag Day by scuba diving with a big old flag, according to the Broward/Palm Beach New Times. He even took pictures! Why won't Allen West apologize for disrespecting Old Glory?

Despite the fact that I am a liberal, and liberals hate the flag, I know the basics of Flag Code (don't let it touch the ground, take it inside at night or in bad weather, never fly it below other flags), which I learned from my grandparents. I know that you're not supposed to wrap yourself in it, in a literal sense, and I think it's generally understood that the bit about not letting it touch the ground also includes not taking it ... under water

I, of course, don't care what you do with the flag, because of moral relativism, but these are supposed to be the super-patriots, and their failure to live up to their super-patriotism is embarrassing us before the entire world. West spent 20 years in the Army, he should know Flag Code! (Though I guess he wasn't clear on following "codes" and "rules" when it came to not illegally detaining and abusing Iraqi civilians, so maybe he actually doesn't know that he's done wrong.)

http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/index.html?story=/news/feature/2011/06/14/allen_west_flag

[FirstLight]

1. So crazy...

somehow when a liberal points out the stupidity of a rethug, it comes out sounding tongue in cheeck, snarky even....

or maybe I just watch too much Rachel, and my own inner voice adds the snark ;) lol

[lbrtbell]

2. In the Republican party....

The douchebaggery knows no bounds.