1. Girl urinates on cloth made in China symbolizing the US government.
2. Flag worshippers send immediate graphic and brutal death threats to this girl.
3. Many Americans are more upset about a flag being urinated on than by the babies their beloved government is blasting to gory bits every day in the Middle East.
WELCOME TO HELL. WHAT IS HELL MADE OF?
Ignorance.
Emily Lance, thank you for your service.
Of course, the story referenced above is that of one Emily Lance, a Philadelphian girl who decided to piss on a flag:
A Pennsylvania woman has received death threats after publicly sharing a video of herself urinating on an American flag.
Emily Lance, of Philadelphia, had a friend film as she urinated on to a flag submerged in her bathroom toilet using a GoGirl, a device that assists women in urinating while standing up.
(source.)
Now she's receiving death threats.
Social media users sent her death threats, suggested someone slit her throat and even offered to pay money for someone to kill her.
The "Movement."
A libertarian friend recently suggested via a Facebook post that Lance's desecration of the holy made-in-China 'Murica fabric was detrimental to the freedom movement, as it just caused statists to be further cemented in their...well...flaggotry.
I have to disagree. Not because this act of protest didn't rile up the statists, but because it did reveal many of their true personalities, and what's more, whether or not I feel that Emily Lance's act of protest was an effective one, the truth remains that she acted within her legitimate, nature-conferred capacity of self-ownership.
Ignorance.
I'd like to get back to this thing about ignorance. A friend of mine posted this meme today, and it got me thinking.
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
I think that's just about right.
When you have folks not caring about lives being ended massacre style at the hands of a violent state, but saying that a girl who urinates on a flag should be murdered, you are pretty fucking gone off the brainwashed scale.
Who cares about these dead kids!?!? This girl is urinating on a piece of fabric!!!
(source.)
Lance later responded to her detractors on social media saying:
“People are willing to MURDER someone over a flag. It’s so sad that people don’t realize how brainwashed they are.
Couldn't agree more, Emily.
(By the way, Bob Seger's "Night Moves" playing in the background of the video makes it all the more magic :))
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
