http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7162515 Even this page might bother most American if you read some of the comments made by ACLU and our laws will make you real mad.If they charge this Veteran with theift someway or another we must help this Veteran .

He did what he was supposed to do. Why was the person who ran the store ( or whatever ) flying a Mexican flag? Probably to tick off Americans, what else? It's one thing to live here, it's another to have contempt for the very country that allows all of this nutty crap.

Just my opinion....based on almost nothing but the look on the guy's face and my experience with Latinos; I think the guy honestly didn't know he was doing anything wrong. He probably saw the flags flying like that in Mexico and wanted to fly them here the same way.

Gunny he might not have known it was illegal but you can bet your bottom dollar he knew what the reaction would be.Just a few days after 9/11 a store across the street from where I lived in Long Beach ,CA. they had an American Flag flying upside down and everyone was laughing and pointing at the Flag but when I walked up and cut the Flag down the reaction was the same.By the way the store was supposed to be an American Citzen if he didn't know the difference why didn't he say he didn't he just walked away NO COMPRENDA.

Take my word for it, the guy knew what he was doing. Why even hang up a flag if you don't know what you are doing? He had the brains to buy it right? Just like that rally in Dallas a while back, fist one is pure Mexican flags and t-shirts and the next is suddenly all American flags. Hmmm.... guess they did'nt know either.

It was his right to fly the flags like that. What's the problem here?

It's considered disrespectful to fly any other flag higher than your own nation's flag. And in the USA it's illegal to do so.

AThousand:

I'm hard pressed to think of a country that doesn't have in it's official protocol the ' rule' that no other national flag can he hoisted/fly higher than the flag of the 'host' country..or be run up the same pole as the nation's flag...

This is a concept understood and adhered to by pretty much every country right down to the littlest in far off lands..[ especially in autocratic dictatorships and other ' proud/nationalistic' nations ].. common respect..

only allowances for the flying of another country's flag is at embassies and consulates and at ' sporting events' when the winning team's flag is raised and their anthem sung when medals/citations are given out.

In my locale there is a 'special pole' for flying other flags on occasions honouring national holidays/special events/good causes, etc.. this pole is set away from the ' national flag pole' and is shorter than the flag reserved for the country's colours.

thought this was all fairly obvious to anyone with a basic civics lesson..but, I guess, these things are no longer taught in school or considered important..

sad what we're doing to shortchange our children, new immigrants and the ' ordinary joe '..

http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?option=com_...iew&id=5090&Itemid=2--By the way (AThousandYoung) it is also Illegal their is a written law that you can not fly any Flag of any kind over the American Flag in the Conntinal Limits of the United States except A US Naval Chaplin's Penett during Church services at Sea you need to do a little reserch before you make comments.

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I didn't realize it was illegal. In the article is this:

"Responding to a controversy over a Mexican flag flying at a local bar, Reno police and the ACLU issued statements today emphasizing it is not illegal to fly another flag above the American flag."

I assumed that the cops would know the law. If it's illegal, then the fool should be prosecuted of course.

Whats with all of this " rights " stuff? Too bad none of us can pray to Jesus without going to jail! Rights? For whom?

Assuming solely for the sake of argument that the store owners were ignorant of US flag protocol, it would have been better that the vet first approach the owners to advise them that flying the Mexican flag above the US flag is disrespectful and will not be tolerated and to give them a fair chance to correct the situation. Assuming such a warning was given or that the owners were otherwise fully cognizant of such protocol, the vet should be thanked for what he did.

Anton you are right about the Veterans action but after so many viloations of the same problem your patience wear thin .AThousandYoung if there is not a Veteran present at most Police Stations all the Police in this Country they don't know or care about the Protocal of the American Flag.As far as ACLU and the Reno Police I hope you continue to follow the story.

I agree that one's patience does become worn thin. i sent the video to a friend of mine today, In response she wrote to me saying that just recently, she approached a Mexican store owner in her capacity as the executive director of a local chamber of commerce in Connecticut. She said that once the Mexican Americans were made aware of their transgression of US flag protocol, they thanked her for telling them about their mistake and quickly corrected the matter and made it a point to tell her how much they appreciated being in this country as "legal" immigrants. That is why we have to be careful before we tolerate, incite or take action taken against a person who displays our flag in violation of our protocols. As to this vet shown in the video and to the extent there is any doubt about what the store owners knew or should have known, I resolve those doubts in favor of the vet.


While it is true that there are no laws that make it illegal to disrespect our flag in the way that is shown in the video (or by some other act of desecration), it is fair to say that the violator, regardless of citizenship or place of origin, acts in peril of his or her personal safety by engaging in such conduct. It appears to me that this vet demonstrated remarkable restraint given what he was capable of doing to the store owners or their store (assuming the store owners were in knowing violation of flag protocol).

The owner knew what he was doing and did it to support the growing Latino community who wants the land they say was stolen by the United States. Since they know they cannot win thru a war they feel they can win by a growing Latino population. That will be able to take the land back without firing a shot by our open borders policy that agriculture and big business wants in order to have the cheap slave labor they need. We reap what we sow and a 2nd Civil War is looming to the horizon. May God have mercy on our souls for not standing up for our Country...

American flag or no flag, simple as that.

America...love it or leave it. Don't see us going down to Mexico and hoisting up our colors down there and then claiming ignorance when the Federalies show up.

I've got the vid to this article posted on my Youtube account. Jim Brossard's one helluva guy.