Just reading this after writing my post "Standing (or not) For The Flag" and It makes me realize how restrained and... kind you were in your comments to me. Your article surely makes one realize the irony of defending a flag against others' "acts of freedom", that it is supposed to stand for. Thanks for getting the brain going, jacobtothe.
I may be an anarchist, but I remember how I felt when I was a flag-waving patriot. I wasn't persuaded to reconsider by name-calling. It was people who poked my core beliefs with new reasoning that made me question how solid they were.