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39. Your priorities are now out here for everyone to see.

Reply to renie408 (Reply #37)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 09:14 PM

Jan 2012

FLAG greater than human dignity.

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The problem isn't that they burned it, its that they STOLE it! [View all] renie408 Jan 2012 OP

Stealing a flag and burning it is not on the same level as the atrosities rhett o rick Jan 2012 #1

Because OWS was wrong. TheWraith Jan 2012 #2

I'm willing to bet unionworks Jan 2012 #8

Your line about OWS is wrong is equally getting old. You seem ok when rhett o rick Jan 2012 #13

Occupy is dead 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #34

And yet you seem to ignore everything wrong that Obama does just fine slay Jan 2012 #55

Because I am an agent provocateur...duh. renie408 Jan 2012 #7

It has nothing to do with me. Explain if you will, how a Democrat can disparage OWS? rhett o rick Jan 2012 #10

I am not disparaging OWS. I am disparaging the acts of a few people involved in the OWS movement. renie408 Jan 2012 #21

It doesnt sound like you understood my post. I did not condone the behavior. I stated rhett o rick Jan 2012 #22

Ok, there we can agree. renie408 Jan 2012 #27

What I am trying to preach is to maintain perspective. The Corp-Media rhett o rick Jan 2012 #31

You know what is REALLY funny? renie408 Jan 2012 #32

I agree. Life Long Dem Jan 2012 #45

I condone it! 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #35

Thank you. It is responses like these that can only make my point for me. renie408 Jan 2012 #38

That's what I've been saying - protestors or infiltrators is one issue. Theft and destruction,... HopeHoops Jan 2012 #3

the problem is unionworks Jan 2012 #4

OMG 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #36

Yep. The cops at City Hall stood by and did NOTHING. Meanwhile their fellow officers... Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #51

Is that the problem? Was anything else stolen? morningfog Jan 2012 #5

They didn't "steal" anything MattBaggins Jan 2012 #6

A 100 year old scale model unionworks Jan 2012 #9

+1! Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #52

But Big Corporations Busting Into American Lives And STEALING EVERYTHING Is Ok? HangOnKids Jan 2012 #11

So anything they do is OK because there are corporations that do WORSE? renie408 Jan 2012 #17

Just curious: How do you steal something your tax dollars pay for? justiceischeap Jan 2012 #12

If theirs were the ONLY tax dollars spent, you might have a point. renie408 Jan 2012 #15

Sure that line of 'logic' works, you just don't accept it justiceischeap Jan 2012 #19

No, actually I don't know enough about that to speculate or say that you are wrong in renie408 Jan 2012 #23

They only burned 99% of it. morningfog Jan 2012 #24

Finally someone says what I've been thinking! Thank You! SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #18

Cool, I can take police cars now! jberryhill Jan 2012 #28

Oh, man...maybe I can get behind that 'logic'. Can you imagine how much faster renie408 Jan 2012 #30

go for it 2pooped2pop Jan 2012 #41

And their guns! pintobean Jan 2012 #56

Actually, I was hoping a German Shepherd jberryhill Feb 2012 #60

So if a bunch of tea partiers break into an army base and take a tank onenote Jan 2012 #49

Obama memorabilia equals American flag? Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #14

Yes. Obviously they are exactly equivalent and that was the precise point I was trying to make. renie408 Jan 2012 #16

The DNC is not supported by public funding. Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #20

So, the KKK can destroy stuff in the MLK memorial because they are taxpayers and it was renie408 Jan 2012 #25

Female prisoners in Saturday's arrests were made to pee in front of male OPD Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #33

In the list of logical argument fallacies, this would be renie408 Jan 2012 #37

Your priorities are now out here for everyone to see. Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #39

And so are your evasive and inflammatory debate tactics. renie408 Jan 2012 #43

lolololol Starry Messenger Jan 2012 #44

The police are an organized gang with orders to brutalize, humiliate, violently attack, and arrest.. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #50

The only problem I have with it is that... Kalidurga Jan 2012 #26

I can agree with this also. renie408 Jan 2012 #29

No, the problem is that this ridiculous non-issue is dominating the discussion sibelian Jan 2012 #40

And the near unanimous disregard for the 100s of PEACEFUL protesters who were arrested. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #48

Just prior to this stupid flag incident Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #42

There were far more that 400. 400 is the number of PEACEFUL protesters who were kettled & arrested. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #47

+1 slay Jan 2012 #54

Fuck it if I am going to smear thousands with the actions of a few. Yes. It was wrong. Luminous Animal Jan 2012 #46

The way things are going - stealing a flag compared to fighting against a dismal future slay Jan 2012 #53

can you prove that it was stolen? donheld Feb 2012 #57

Expensive flag. Guys wearing army boots. No long hair. 90s clothes. No one arrested. sudopod Feb 2012 #58

But somebody told me that somebody said, they knew him. EFerrari Feb 2012 #61

This thread deserves to be trashed for comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Klan.nt EFerrari Feb 2012 #59