[GreenKeys] US FLAG CODE AMENDED

[gil smith]

ENOUGH!

DO I HAVE TO START MODERATING EVERY POST?

DON HAD GOOD INTENTIONS WITH HIS INITIAL POST, BUT THESE REPLIES ARE JUST 
GETTING INFLAMMATORY.

NO MORE POLITICAL OPINIONS.

GIL


At 10:26 AM 6/4/2008, Gregory W.Moore wrote:
>GA. listmembers,
>
>Remember that those veterans who are Navy or Marine Corps cannot render
>a salute uncovered.  Just FYI to remember your cover before you attend
>an event that requires saluting.  Also, since Navy and Marine Corps
>personnel uncover indoors, they may not render the military salute
>unless specific permission is given to remain covered indoors.
>Therefore, if no permission is given, veterans of N-MC must render the
>civilian salute, or simply stand at attention.
>
>This being said, and reading some of the posts regarding the Colors,
>remember that we honor what the Colors stand for, the same way as we
>never are released from our oath to Protect and Defend the Constitution
>of the United States. Also, it makes no difference who the C in C is.
>One respects the office of President, one doesn't have to respect the
>person holding that office, we just have to obey all orders issued from
>said C in C.
>
>I realize that right now, the Colors have become a hollow symbol,
>because there are too many liberal activists trying to use the judicial
>system to rewrite the constitution. I forsee 4 to eight years of hell.
>It would not suprise me in the least if we saw a depression worse than
>that beginning in 1929.  If the current administration had any cojones,
>this would have all been over in 15 mins on 09/12/2001 with a Boomer
>coming to launch depth, keys would have been turned, three jolts would
>have been felt as the missiles departed the launch tubes, and Islamic
>Terrorism would have been a thing of the past, for without a religion to
>die for, there is no point in terrorism.  If one wants to get technical,
>we wouldn't even have to go nuke...If we really wanted to send a
>message, simply replace the warhead bus on the Minuteman II with a
>"pseudo asteroid" say a core of HY-80, Inconel X, or for that matter,
>depleted uranium, covered in a thick layer of steel reinforced epoxy,
>and an ablative shield.  Add a stage to accelerate the "asteroid" on
>final re-entry, and one has a pretty decent, non-nuclear, city buster.
>
>Kinetic Energy weapons, one minute a city, the next minute a plasma
>trail and utter destruction.. everything would seem to happen in
>reverse, first the impact, then the sighting of the white streak of the
>plasma trail, then the sonic booms, that is, for those still alive to
>see and hear this.  I have absolutely no sympathy for terrorists, and
>IMHO, they should be treated like "irregular forces" not subject to
>terms of the Geneva Convention. We have plenty of walls and stakes, and
>plenty of those who would gladly join firing squads to rid this country,
>and the world, of those who would do us harm.  OIL? sure, run up the
>Colors and take it for reparations.
>
>This is the only time I will post off topic like this, but the Flag
>still means something to me, I was proud to serve under the Colors,
>regardless of what the great unwashed rabble in the US thought.
>END RANT!
>Greg "GW" Moore
>
>Don Robert House wrote:
>>Inform your fellow Veterans....
>>Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:35:01 -0400
>>The president signed the Amendment to Section 9 of Title 4 of the U.S.
>>Code which was attached with the H.R. 4986 Bill under the National
>>Defense Authorization Act of 2008.
>>The amendment reads:
>>SEC. 594. CONDUCT BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND
>>VETERANS OUT OF UNIFORM DURING HOISTING, LOWERING, OR
>>PASSING OF UNITED STATES FLAG.
>>Section 9 of title 4, United States Code, is amended by striking `all
>>persons present' and all that follows through the end of the section
>>and inserting the following: `all persons present in uniform
>>should render the military salute. Members of the Armed Forces and
>>Veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military
>>salute.  All other persons present should face the flag and stand at
>>attention with their right hand over the heart, or if applicable,
>>remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left
>>shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Citizens of other countries
>>present should stand at attention. All such conduct toward the flag
>>in a moving column should be rendered at the moment the flag passes.'
>>
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