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Obama Flag wtf?

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Oh you wacky Americans.

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I decided to look up any laws preventing this and couldn't. The best I could come up with (emphasis mine):

[url]http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/04C1.txt[/url]

Any person who, [B]within the District of Columbia[/B], in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

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This didn't happen in Washington D.C - so it's legal. QED ?

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  1. Raistlin's Avatar
    It also would be legal in D.C. So-called flag desecration is protected by the First Amendment. See Texas v. Johnson (striking down state ban on flag burning).
  2. Peegee's Avatar
    :D
    hmph. then what the hell is the flag code for? Also it states you can't use it for bedding, as a container (to wrap stuff in, I suppose), etc.
  3. Tigmafuzz's Avatar
    ...I don't even?
  4. Quindiana Jones's Avatar
    I use mine as wank rags. Thank God I don't live in a country with ridiculous extradition laws that, for every request made, goes out and buys another tub of political lube.

    Oh wait.