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Jesus, why people seem to think that a flag is so important is far beyond me. It harks back to the nationalism of Imperial times. A flag is nothing more than an object.
As the great Bill Hicks once said:
"'Hey buddy, my daddy died for that flag.'
'Really? I bought mine. Yeah, they sell them at K-Mart and shit.'
'He died in the Korean War.'
'Wow, what a coincidence. Mine was made in Korea.'
No one – and I repeat, no one – has ever died for a flag. See, a flag ... is just a piece of cloth. They may have died for freedom, which is also the freedom to burn the fucking flag, see. That's freedom."
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