The people that brought you the demonstrations that resulted in two New York City police officers being murdered are at it again.
A group that titles itself "Disarm the NYPD" is having a flag burning Festival in Fort Greene Park here in Brooklyn.
Quoting the story in todays New York Post:
Organizers say the rally is a response to Charleston shooter Dylann Roof because he is a “product of a consistent pattern of state-sponsored terrorism and radicalized dehumanization in America.”
They originally intended to burn just the Confederate flag, but they’re now taking aim at the stars and stripes as well.
“The Confederate flag has long been a symbol of white supremacy, slavery, and Jim Crow,” the group wrote in a Facebook post. “However, the Confederacy lost the war, but the American flag has unceasingly, from the first day it was ever hung, represented the exact same thing.”
“Disarm” member Carlos Cabeza, 21, said the group didn’t even bother asking for a permit from the Parks Department, knowing they wouldn’t be approved.
The activists intend to set fire to a large American flag, as well as a Confederate battle flag, he said. They’re also encouraging others to bring along their own flags to burn.
“We think these flags symbolize white supremacy and racism that is embedded into the American society and culture,” Cabeza said.
So the protests that started with the Confederate Flag are now morphing into the burning and desecration of the American Flag. It is all the same to these jokers.
If you want a full discussion by a competent law professor be sure to check out the post at Legal Insurrection. Professor Jacobson should be your go-to guy on legal questions. He is a class act.
