A visit to Mme Guilotine non?

[drivin_me_nuts]

Anyone any idea if there is an equivalent law in the UK?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8636331.st...

[MX7]

I don't think so, fortunately. Do we want to get that precious over a flag?

[drivin_me_nuts]

MX7 said:

I don't think so, fortunately. Do we want to get that precious over a flag?

Not sure. One side of the noggin says it's disrespectful to the nation and its peoples etc, the other side says it just a scrap of material so, so what?

The CESM's have always had a very precious sense of national identity and I can understand why it would bother them more.

[FourWheelDrift]

MX7 said:

I don't think so, fortunately. Do we want to get that precious over a flag?

In the US there was anger and outrage over a Mexican restaurant that was flying both it own country's flag and the US flag outside, however the Mexican flag was flying above the US one and they didn't like that, it's apparently illegal in the US to do that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_IPorsrsT8

And in the UK some local councils have told people to not fly the British flag in case it might "offend".....

[Puggit]

Daily Mash - Frenchman wipes Arse

[jmorgan]

All that fuss over a flag. Anyway, someone has already defaced it and painted a blue and red stripe on it.

[rypt]

I thought it was still treason to fly the jack upside-down

[glazbagun]

rypt said:

I thought it was still treason to fly the jack upside-down

I thought flying a flag upside-down was a distress signal?

[MX7]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Not sure. One side of the noggin says it's disrespectful to the nation and its peoples etc, the other side says it just a scrap of material so, so what?

The CESM's have always had a very precious sense of national identity and I can understand why it would bother them more.

So should we have laws against things that are disrespectful? I realise that there are limits, but flag burning seems to be a fairly harmless past time that only fanatics would get offended about.

I'd fear the legislation that introduced flag burning as an offence much more than some fools who think they are making some dramatic statement.

[drivin_me_nuts]

MX7 said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

Not sure. One side of the noggin says it's disrespectful to the nation and its peoples etc, the other side says it just a scrap of material so, so what?

The CESM's have always had a very precious sense of national identity and I can understand why it would bother them more.

So should we have laws against things that are disrespectful? I realise that there are limits, but flag burning seems to be a fairly harmless past time that only fanatics would get offended about.

I'd fear the legislation that introduced flag burning as an offence much more than some fools who think they are making some dramatic statement.

Indeed.

[Parrot of Doom]

If you need legislation to protect a flag, there's clearly more serious problems to attend to.