Watch a US Marine chase down a hippe with an upside down US flag

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Murloc

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Talk about asshole-on-asshole crime. I dislike hippies but these Marines look like two simpleminded boneheads. If they were really such patriots, they would understand the importance of free speech.
When nationalism loses sight of its reasons, it doesn't do anyone any good.
As long as they weren't going to kick his ass then it isn't so much of a problem anyway. War messes people up, better this than shooting up some army base.
 

zinfamous

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marines: dying for the freedom to beat up people for expressing the rights that they die to protect...or something.
 
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exactly

the two men are thugs and they should have their ass kicked for threats and attempted assault

They're thugs? They actually fought for their country and didn't run away like your cowards. It's interesting how you want them to get their asses kicked but not the leftist hippies.
 

BoomerD

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They're thugs? They actually fought for their country and didn't run away like your cowards. It's interesting how you want them to get their asses kicked but not the leftist hippies.

How does their service give them the right to do what we saw in the video?

Granted, there might be a lot more to the issue than we saw...but just because the "hippies" were flying the flag upside down, something they possibly disagreed with, that doesn't give them the right to interfere with their protest.

I'm a Marine...or was 40+ years ago. (once a Marine, ALWAYS a Marine) and I strongly disagree with what I saw in the video.

I don't think they should have had their asses kicked...unless they actually laid hands on the other fellows...at which time, they should have been beaten or shot.
They fought for the rights of other people to do things which they personally find offensive.
 

grrl

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Another example of assholes meet assholes.

I work with a Vietnam vet who wears an upside down flag pin in protest of having US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I doubt the dumbass Marines could convince him to do differently. Or understand why they need to STFU.
 

norseamd

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I'm a Marine...or was 40+ years ago. (once a Marine, ALWAYS a Marine) and I strongly disagree with what I saw in the video. I don't think they should have had their asses kicked...unless they actually laid hands on the other fellows...at which time, they should have been beaten or shot. They fought for the rights of other people to do things which they personally find offensive.

after my initial strong reaction i realized that they may have just wanted to take the flag away but i have only watched it once so far. however they did keep chasing them after those guys dropped the flag and also some some words which i think i remember were not nice and possibly even mildly threatening to the guy who was complaining
 
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How does their service give them the right to do what we saw in the video?

Granted, there might be a lot more to the issue than we saw...but just because the "hippies" were flying the flag upside down, something they possibly disagreed with, that doesn't give them the right to interfere with their protest.

I'm a Marine...or was 40+ years ago. (once a Marine, ALWAYS a Marine) and I strongly disagree with what I saw in the video.

I don't think they should have had their asses kicked...unless they actually laid hands on the other fellows...at which time, they should have been beaten or shot.
They fought for the rights of other people to do things which they personally find offensive.

In my first post I said they shouldn't have done it but you can't blame them.

Also the hippies could have protested any other way but they decided to attack the American flag. I also love how they ran away and were too scared to face the Marines. The Marines didn't even get them because they ran away.

Also many liberals love to claim to that there are consequences of free speech and we saw that here. I just want some consistency.
 

BoomerD

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In my first post I said they shouldn't have done it but you can't blame them.

Also the hippies could have protested any other way but they decided to attack the American flag. I also love how they ran away and were too scared to face the Marines. The Marines didn't even get them because they ran away.

Also many liberals love to claim to that there are consequences of free speech and we saw that here. I just want some consistency.

The consequences of free speech have limits. You can disagree with what someone says...but you don't get a free pass to kick their ass for saying it.

I don't see this as an attack on the US flag. I see them using the US flag as a form of protest.
I've flown my US flag upside down in protest before. One of my neighbors threatened to rip it down. I told him to go ahead...but they'd cart him away in an ambulance if he did.
My flag stayed put.
 
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In my first post I said they shouldn't have done it but you can't blame them.

Also the hippies could have protested any other way but they decided to attack the American flag. I also love how they ran away and were too scared to face the Marines. The Marines didn't even get them because they ran away.

Also many liberals love to claim to that there are consequences of free speech and we saw that here. I just want some consistency.

you're consistently a moron...how's that for consistency?
 

Angry Irishman

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why do military dudes always think that having gangbanged for the us gov and corporate america makes them super patriots/captain america. if they care about america so much they should protest the wars or mass gov surveillance.

"hey you put that flag back up!!" freakin' dumaxed brownshirts, lol. whats even more disturbing is that there were cars honking in support

that some amusing schitt tho, i love watching people fighting on the street. a few days ago i was in the post office and some crippled dude cussed at the clerks and some dude with a 5 year old daughter told the guy he was going to beat the schitt outta him for using foul language in front of his kid. he ended up punching the handicapped guy

It's clear that the public education system has failed you.
 

norseamd

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why do military dudes always think that having gangbanged for the us gov and corporate america makes them super patriots/captain america. if they care about america so much they should protest the wars or mass gov surveillance. "hey you put that flag back up!!" freakin' dumaxed brownshirts, lol. whats even more disturbing is that there were cars honking in support that some amusing schitt tho, i love watching people fighting on the street. a few days ago i was in the post office and some crippled dude cussed at the clerks and some dude with a 5 year old daughter told the guy he was going to beat the schitt outta him for using foul language in front of his kid. he ended up punching the handicapped guy

what happened to the guy

did he get arrested
 

Jeff7

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so might makes right?

you remain perfectly consistent.
Gotta stay true to our primitive, brutish roots.


All variations on a theme.
I can yell louder, therefore my ideas are right.
I can physically injure you, therefore my ideas are right.



I still like the quote, "The day you can't burn a flag is the day you should."
Or in this case, hang one upside down.
 
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