"Western Pa. man cited for flying flag upside-down "

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On Monday, someone complained about the flag being flown upside down at Rice's home and he was cited for "insults to national or commonwealth flag."

There goes 1A


-Al

This will be tossed prior to any trial taking place.

Damn. I know the guy. I can believe him. I have a pretty good idea who filed the complaint too. How hard could it be to just tell the guy that his flag is upside down? The citation is a joke. I wouldn't pay it. I wonder if he would have been cited if he was burning the flag?

surely if US vehicles can have the upside down USflag on them (seen on three trucks sent inot bosnia during clintons era, and a few times on vehicles since)

surely its legal for any other citizen to do the same??

maybe he's just showing alliegience to the real american power.

To me it actually makes sense in a way, its a distress call, and I believe it should be answered, perhaps they all need to fly inverted for a while.

Thought you flew the flag upside down for showing distress?
I knew that a lot of Americans flew their flags upside down because they were 'protesting' and claiming that the US was in distress.

Just takes a brainwashed moron , like the person who complained to think that flying the flag wrong way up needs moaning about. Maybe these people should go upto the person and say " you know your flags the wrong way?", maybe then they'll get the real answer instead of being interferring busybodies? I also suspect they are the kind of person that believes the Government at everyword, believes the MSM , and also has no real friends?

[edit on 2/12/09 by DataWraith]

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Not just the person who called on him,
you could also say the person who cited him is brain-washed as well.
While I respect the flag, I am sick and tired of "well-meaning, good American" neighbors who stick their nose in people's business over every single thing. Just goes to show how uninformed people really are.


This page has a list of flag etiquette (sorry still can't figure out how to put links in.)

www.gruntsmilitary.com...
Upside down...
An upside-down flag is considered a distress signal.