“Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania. Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today.”

from thinkprogress

Lies, wars, torture, secret prisons, corruption, murder, bribes, male prostitutes, insider trading, treason...... All placidly accepted or ignored by the majority of Americans. What does that flag stand for again?

Maybe it should be legal to burn one, but ONLY under the ass of an American who's ignorance and apathy is a far greater crime than burning a piece of cloth.

The less moral America actually is the more important it is to hang on to the image of being moral. If America really embodied the great qualities we portend, we could not possibly feel threaten by flag burning.

But we NEED to raise that flag and hold that bible up so everyone can see. Without the flag and the bible and reassuring lies. We would have nothing to prevent us from being ashamed of what we have become and what we have allowed to happen.

When morality is lost, there is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith,
the beginning of chaos. - Tao Te Ching