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[TigerTrax]

Since 2001 I have displayed an UPSIDE DOWN
American flag on my motorcycle. I  had hoped
that in a few years I would be confident enough
that the danger was over and I could turn it Rightside Up.

But danger rears it's head in many corners and has
many faces. And now the danger is even greater.
Our nation is under seige. The fear of loss of liberty
and pursuit of happiness is very real. Your lifestyle as you know it
or hoped it to be is almost smoke in the wind

If you agree, do the same. Show the signal for
distress. Display a 3" x 5" upside down flag on all of your vehicles.

If someone says, " That's a sign of surrender!" Tell them there is
NO signal of surrender with an American flag. There is only a
signal of distress .... and the real fight about to begin!

[flux]

TT, saw this this morning and thought of you!  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_us/us_upside_down_flag

[coachgeo]

TT, saw this this morning and thought of you!  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_ ... _down_flag (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_us/us_upside_down_flag)[/url]

bad link

[REGULATOR]

Say what you want, but the man has a right to protest, and he broke no laws...
If I lived near him I might have asked him why, but again, we are still a free country?



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_ ... _down_flag (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_us/us_upside_down_flag)


Dispute over flag protest erupts in Wisc. village


. AP – This photo provided by Susan Willems taken July 5, 2009 shows an American flag being flown upside down, ...


WAUSAU, Wis. – An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it — an Iraq war veteran — claims the officers trespassed and stole his property.

A day after the parade, police returned the flag and the man's protest — over a liquor license — continued.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is considering legal action against the village of Crivitz for violating Vito Congine Jr.'s' First Amendment rights, Executive Director Chris Ahmuty said.

"It is not often that you see something this blatant," Ahmuty said.

In mid-June, Congine, 46, began flying the flag upside down — an accepted way to signal distress — outside the restaurant he wants to open in Crivitz, a village of about 1,000 people some 65 miles north of Green Bay.

He said his distress is likely bankruptcy because the village board refused to grant him a liquor license after he spent nearly $200,000 to buy and remodel a downtown building for an Italian supper club.

Congine's upside-down-flag represents distress to him; to others in town, it represents disrespect of the flag.

Hours before a Fourth of July parade, four police officers went to Congine's property and removed the flag under the advice of Marinette County District Attorney Allen Brey.

Neighbor Steven Klein watched in disbelief.

"I said, 'What are you doing?' Klein said. "They said, 'It is none of your business.'"

The next day, police returned the flag.

Brey declined comment Friday.

Marinette County Sheriff Jim Kanikula said it was not illegal to fly the flag upside down but people were upset and it was the Fourth of July.

"It is illegal to cause a disruption," he said.

The parade went on without any problems, Kanikula said.

Village President John Deschane, 60, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam, said many people in town believe it's disrespectful to fly the flag upside down.

"If he wants to protest, let him protest but find a different way to do it," Deschane said.

Congine, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq in 2004, said he intends to keep flying the flag upside down.

"It is pretty bad when I go and fight a tyrannical government somewhere else," Congine said, "and then I come home to find it right here at my front door."
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[TigerTrax]

When people or government take the liberties and rights of one person or group of people, it is an affront to all citizens. Little by little our liberties are being taken away.
 
He is a Marxist. He dispises this country. His goal is NOT to RAISE the poor and disadvantaged to elevated heights.... but to drag others down to a lower, more dependednt level.
 
Call me whatever you want.....but you cannot deny the facts.
 
The flags stay upside down until this nation's economy, national security, and it's stature in the world returns to the very top. When we have a President who respects this nation and refuses to allow others to denegrate it .. unchallenged.. in his presence. There is no alternative.

[flux]

Uh, did I miss something?  Who here said all that stuff about ya?

[zombie]

your entitled to your beliefs.
I'm calling BS on flying the flag upside down
As for the whole marxist thing , all I can suggest is to actually read what Karl marx wrote and then get back to me if it doesn't bore you to death in the meantime .
Here's the flag code for ya


THE FLAG CODE
Title 36, U.S.C., Chapter 10
As amended by P.L. 344, 94th Congress
Approved July 7, 1976


§ 176. Respect for flag: No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.



My nephew and his buddies are currently overseas on 3rd and 4th deployments and they hate the idea of the flag being turned upside down , now those cats I'll listen too
for what it's worth I can't stand any politician of any flavor , at the end of the day they are puppets to whomever coughs up the most dough



not for nuthin' the only communist plot out there is Karl Marx' grave and anyway we're all screwed as the world ends 12pm on 12-12-2012 acoording to the Mayans  so get your Alaska trip in before then

[wasions]

I think the Brit flags on my swingarm are upside-down.

[TigerTrax]

If you do not believe this nation is in distress....
be advised .... HELL Cometh !

The freedom, liberty, and rights that so many are willing to give up for a moment of euphoria will reek HELL on them 10 fold! ( I can still hear that dumb broad now: " I won't have to worry about my mortgage or car payment, . . . ." She's probably living in a clunker now.) Their children, grandchildren, and others in a younger generation will be the ones who pay. They will NEVER realize their dreams and ambitions. They will become economic slaves to the government.

I have lived in the greatest decades of this nation.... I.... and MANY others like me will not sit idly by to watch it decay into a glorified Socialistic nation based on the 'free hand-out' expectations of the never done squat crowd.

A survivor is one who thinks the unthinkable.... and prepares for it!

Keep your powder dry!

[Sin_Tiger]

I think the Brit flags on my swingarm are upside-down.

Not so easy to see from that but it looks OK "On the side next to the flagpole, (the hoist side), the thick white band is above the red band on both diagonals, the white band being part of the cross of St Andrew, the Scottish flag and the red band being part of the cross of St Patrick, the Irish flag." HRH would not be amused  :oops: (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flags_of_the_Union_Jack-fr.png)

Don't start me please
"as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.
It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

Declaration of Arbroath 1320, (http://www.constitution.org/scot/arbroath.htm) didn't quite work out the way they planned either :roll:

[aeronca]

sin - check your pm 8)

[Nick Calne]

They say when America sneezes, Britain catches a cold and yes we are facing some real problems now. We are all heading towards a lot of change one way or another.  Society, freedoms, resources, financial, everything...

But Guys come on.  Our soldiers are in action in some god awful dusty, craphole on the other side of the world, fighting for their lives.

Those that don't make it come back in planes that fly over my house to land 6 miles away.

For their sake, flags the right way up til it's over.

[coachgeo]

....For their sake, flags the right way up til it's over.

Im with him Sorry.

Now that you've flown it upside down a while... there is two things to think about.... One, is it staying upside down more of stuborness than the reasons you state?  Search deep and if it's stubornness... then right the flag cause thats the wrong reason to fly it like that. Two, while this is a notable distress... is this the type distress the code was written to support?   Reads to me to be more of something like when a US ship been pirated, and you want to silently signal for help, or something simular.

Respect our soldiers in battle please and thank you for spending time to be part of some of battles for our country yourself.  Both physical and political  

How about having printed up a flag with "Freedom" printed on it with the circle & line thru it like a non smoking sign.  Display that below the American Flag.  Would get your point across and still respect American's at war.

[coachgeo]

Another flag idea is an american eagle with the circle line thru it.. or a combination of the two.

A sign idea for your yard would be a cut out painted that looks like the American Constitution with the Circle line thru it. and words below it. WAKE UP AMERICAN'S. That would really identify your points more targetedly than anything your doing now.

[zombie]

If you do not believe this nation is in distress....
be advised .... HELL Cometh !

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sorry I don't believe in the heaven or hell fairytale either
but that's just me.
I believe in Pan or the man in the forest , now thats a cool God
I can really dig bollicking around in Nature a lot  more than listening to  some self rightous bollox shouting at me from a pulpit.
The ancient celts had the right idea , everything from the earth and  so back to the earth..
 now excuse me while I go and sacrifice something or other