I found this on the link you posted. Interesting.
The Flag Code [see below] requires that the US flag be flown on federal institutions, including public schools. It does not require you to fly the US flag and it does not forbid you from displaying a foreign flag. For example, someone with Irish heritage may proudly fly an Irish flag and is not required to fly the US flag. In the early 1900s there was hostility when the German flag was flown in the US, prompting Theodore Roosevelt to state that we had one flag, and one language. We are again revisiting tensions, this time it is the Mexican flag. We understand the emotional tensions of the situation, however, the Flag Code [see below] does not support those who wish to forbid the flying of the Mexican flag within our borders without also flying the US flag.

no flag is supose to be flone over the other they are supose to be flone at the same hight.

Because in America, the American flag is flown above all others.... Just wait and see... Google North American Union... It's coming quicker than you think.....

Does anyone else think that there will eventually be a different set of laws pertaining to the internet? Perhaps an INTERPOL thing? Just curious. I think this thread can explore an issue that will surely come up but is not in the news that much yet.

well if iraq was a gold based market

and we took all of the gold

then i guess the war paid for its self

can't have it both ways

still waiting for that lightening bolt to strike me down....wait....nope.....still here...sorry.


for starters i never directed that comment at you. I directed it at anyone that wants to damage our pride for this country. Place it where it applies. Or are you trying to make fun of my belief in god? Anyhow i am a former paratrooper and veteran. I have been born and raised in the USA. I say god bless America.

Our nation reveres the flag, not out of a sense of unquestioning worship but out of a deep sense of our national heritage. Strengthened by our noble deeds, splendid accomplishments, and untold sacrifices, the flag reflects America's pledge to uphold democracy and work for peace throughout the world. It is America's strength in honor, as dignified in the stars and stripes of the flag, which helps to establish the moral character of our national foundation.

and why would anyone not know? It says it right here-

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Kid porn cops need warrant
Newmarket judge tosses out chat room evidence against man
By SAM PAZZANO, COURTS BUREAU
The Toronto Sun
The world is a screwed up place. With the internet it seems that national borders are transparent so I wonder what will become of all of this when the issue involves crossed borders? Something to think about. There are a lot of sick people out there. Please let us all know what happens with this.




Police must get a warrant to secretly record conversations on private Internet chat rooms, even if they are chatting with suspected kiddie-porn peddlers, a Newmarket judge has ruled.

In what may be a precedent-setting judgment -- and one that could hamper police in the fight against child pornography -- Justice William Gorewich threw out evidence against a Markham man because it was illegally obtained.

With the evidence ruled out, the Newmarket Crown withdrew charges in January. The decision is being appealed.

The judge stated the accused's Charter rights were violated by Toronto Police Det. Paul Krawcyzk, who recorded the conversation without a warrant.

His boss, Det. Sgt. Kim Scanlan of the Child Exploitation Section of Sex Crimes Unit in Toronto, said the "disappointing" decision will have a "direct impact on our ability to keep kids safe.

'DEAD END'

"We've gone to Internet service providers with the IP address and the providers give us an address and name, similar to a MTO search for a driver's licence or a 411 phone inquiry," Scanlan said. "It's important we have access to that information. Otherwise it's a dead end for investigators."

Defence lawyer Richard Posner, who successfully argued his client's rights were violated, said the law is "Big Brother for the state at its whim and discretion to seize private business information and it's completely unnecessary."

On June 24, 2006, Krawczyk was working undercover and posing as a trader on an Internet Rely Chat, where he knew the exchange of child porn images and movies occurred.

He found a man known as "Step Tosh" and engaged him in a private conversation which was recorded.

Based on this information, York Regional Police executed a search of the man's home on Stonebridge Dr. and found 14 graphic images of child pornography.

"The fact this officer had conducted such investigations in the same manner hundreds or thousands of times before doesn't justify his actions," Gorewich wrote.

"I find the evidence that the officer stated the need for the information to be acquired quickly to save children from the abuse of child pornography is somewhat far-fetched, given the widespread nature of this illegal activity.

CHAT ROOM

"There was nothing to prevent this officer from obtaining a warrant (for) the private chat room ... "

The judge ruled that people on private chat rooms have the same expectation of privacy as people in private phone calls and police routinely get warrants.

"It's a straightforward and simple procedure to get a warrant and the officers know it's like fishing in a barrel, going after people transacting child porn," Posner said yesterday.

American to the bone and I know that my country is my country, no flag position signifies my patriotism. My patriotism comes from my heart and soul no physical thing regardless to what it is is a measure of my patriotism to my country. I am not unsure of my patriotism so I do not need to exert it for it to be seen. Nor do I need to move or remove flags for my patriotism to be true, it is true no matter where the flag hangs.

I know, centuries of history , art, inventions and culture.

Oh! And I got my US citizenship last year...so you can keep your sarcasm for yourself...fellow american.