{"id":1516,"date":"2003-07-25T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/25\/flag-desecration\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:32:29","slug":"flag-desecration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/25\/flag-desecration\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Desecration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13961,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/story.news.yahoo.com\\\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\\\/030725\\\/168\\\/4s8z4.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050422075916\\\/http:\\\/\\\/story.news.yahoo.com:80\\\/news?tmpl=story&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:29:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 22:49:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:55:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:55:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13962,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www4.law.cornell.edu\\\/uscode\\\/4\\\/8.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111107141203\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.law.cornell.edu\\\/uscode\\\/4\\\/8.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.law.cornell.edu\\\/uscode\\\/4\\\/8.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 22:49:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:55:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:55:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13653,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/john.hoke.org\\\/archives\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/constitutional_amendment_to_prevent_presidents_from_desecrating_the_flag.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13654,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003535.html#003535&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20031013015859\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com:80\\\/archives\\\/003535.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:35:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:08:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:08:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Just in case you were wondering how much President Bush really respected the flag:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/030725\/168\/4s8z4.html\" title=\"Yahoo! Photos\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2003\/07\/graphics\/flagdesecration\" src=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/flagdesecration-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/4\/8.html\" title=\"US Code Title 4, Chapter 1, Sec. 8\">US Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Sec. 8 (g)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/john.hoke.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/constitutional_amendment_to_prevent_presidents_from_desecrating_the_flag.php\" title=\"John Hoke's Asylum: Constitutional Amendment to Prevent Presidents From Desecrating the Flag\">John Hoke<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003535.html#003535\" title=\"Bush disrespects flag\">Daily Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}