Re: American flags

[Gassler Robert <rsgassle@xxxxxxxxx>]

We can either reject an important symbol for all sorts of intellectual reasons, or embrace it and tap into the emotions of a majority of the population. If the flag has been used against the left so effectively, why insist on letting the right keep using it?

>My Navajo friend, a well-educated former Catholic priest, tells me
>that his family's stories include many in which his ancestors were
>led to believe that if they stand around the flagpole when the
>federal troops come in they would be safe. A ploy, of course, to get
>them all in one place where they could be easy targets.
>
>The flurry of flags after 9/11 struck me as belligerant, Pavlovian
>and rude -- if not commercial. The World Trade Center and the
>Pentagon as military targets aren't necessarily the American people,
>are they? In many ways the American people are innocent, dumbfounded
>bystanders, rallying around a flag believing there's some safety in
>it.
>
>Proyect's remarking about flag pins stopping conversations makes me
>wonder if the peace pin on my own lapel halts conversations the same
>way. I wear it because I think it's important that people see
>something other than flags, that there's another side.
>
>Dan Scanlan
>
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