A small town in Canada — a very small town — refused to fly the Rainbow Flag during ‘Pride Month’ for two excellent reasons: One, they didn’t fly anyone else’s flag all year, and two, they didn’t have a flagpole. But that was more than a gay activist group could bear. So they complained to the ominously-named Canadian Human Rights TRIBUNAL who fined the town $10,000 and the Mayor of the town — personally — $5000. Plus re-education camp, obviously.
But they didn’t fly the flag.
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blame the COPS because they are the only people with GUNS to FORCE compliance.
Funny, I know a LOT of “people with guns” that are not “COPS”. If someone with a gun but no lawful authority wants to they can “FORCE compliance”. Thank God and the laws of The Republic the cops you malign would have something to say about that.
Your claim is nonsense.
NEVER pay ANY fine because it violates the 8th Amendment, the 6th Amendment because there is no accuser.
The accuser is always The People in a criminal case. That’s you, and me, and every other citizen in the jurisdiction in question. YOU are included whether you want to be or not, whether you accept and acknowledge your inclusion or not. YOU don’t get to opt out, sorry. YOUR consent is not required to enforce OUR laws and you don’t get a veto over anything. If YOU could do these things then the Rule of Law would be meaningless and society would be anarchic. The Founding Fathers purpose in establishing OUR REPUBLIC was not to create some sort of… Read more »
This sort of lunacy makes it obvious why the USA has the FIRST and SECOND Amendments to its Constitution. Anyone who thinks that a purely peaceful protest, with no threats of potential violent resistance, of such tyranny is deluded in thinking that ruination is not the end goal of such terrorists. In fact, Bill’s paraphrasing the public statements of that border town mafioso reinforces the agenda that demands that all celebrate their perversion or be bankrupt. The SECOND is our political big stick that protects our individual rights to own the actual big sticks. The FIRST protects our individual right… Read more »
I’m not going to be nearly as eloquent (or lengthy) as @ACTS (TM) in this thread, but I will applaud his POV and assert my own that I have a 20 foot flag pole outside my property, with a U.S. flag flying on top under which is a “U.S. Army Retired, Still Serving” flag underneath. It’s as it should be. I retired from the Army from active duty status 30 years ago. It’s an entirely different Army than it was back then, but that’s an entirely different subject.
On the matter of flags — Bill is right, a flag is a symbol of allegiance, it is a recognition of submission to an acknowledged political and civil Authority. It is an official symbol developed over deep time and its meaning is specific and powerful. On my flag mast you will see two flags. The top one is always the Flag of the United States of America and the one under that is the Marine Corps Flag. My allegiance is to the United States of America first and foremost in political and civil matters. My loyalty and love are represented… Read more »
When you mentioned that flags were a sign of allegiance, I knew you had a flagpole with the US flag at top and the Marine Corps under it. It could be no other way. I had a small US flag in a socket on my front porch on my last house, and one on a pillar on my current house…. Until that pillar got knocked down by accident. That socket got ruined and, to my shame, I have not gotten another….or another flag. The flag in the pillar also got ruined. I have a long list of things this house… Read more »
Great topic and good points.
However…if I continue to be forced to watch 2 minute+ commercials for hoodies, I will cancel my membership.
Use an ad blocker and you’ll eliminate that problem. I see no ads on any platforms with one of those in place and they are FREE!
Agree w/Alan. Try a newer/safer browser like Brave, DuckDuck, or Firefox which have ad blockers (+/or extensions) … Dump Chrome (Google) and Edge/Bing (MS) asap.
I’m an American who has lived in Canada for the last 8 years, and it is stories like this that show me there has been an apparent shift towards reason and resiliance to tyranny that is very encouraging.