I question all the proposed laws against burning or desecrating the flag. That\u2019s bad for business; ergo it is un-American. Think of it: every flag burned is product moved. Flag burning should be encouraged. That\u2019s good business.<\/p>\n
Otherwise flags would have to be manufactured to wear out sooner. Or the design would have to change seasonally to encourage sales. Only a traitor waves last years flag. Displaying an old flag from the back of your pickup truck? Prepare to be pulled over and ticketed. It\u2019s all about your safety. Security.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re either with us or against us. Remember, America is about shopping and turning in (on) your neighbor.<\/p>\n
The media tells me about many things I need to buy. It seems my old toothbrush is not doing an adequate and hygienic job. There have been technological breakthroughs in the field of personal hygiene and I am being left behind. How can anyone love me; I live in the filthy world of yesterday.<\/p>\n
Still, there is the hope of stability. We do not hope for peace, as the starry-eyed utopians, but stability\u2014the utopia of the hard-hearted realist. War. It\u2019s good for the economy they say; it sells American flags. They\u2019re made in China, but still, business is business.<\/p>\n
There has been much talk of terrorism in the last decades. I want to say this clearly so it will be well understood: Terrorism is peachy. Otherwise we would not have funded it. It\u2019s stimulating the economy.<\/p>\n
This country was built on terrorism. It was not for nothing our founding fathers stole and destroyed tea. It was so that we, their heirs, would be free to steal and destroy tea. Do not let anyone tell you it is not your right to steal and destroy tea! Our boys in uniform fought and died to insure that right. The stores are filled with tea. Go out and do your duty citizen! Anyone who tries to stop you is a traitor.<\/p>\n
One principal of private property (the foundation of the Free Market) is that you have the right to slash your own tires.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re yours. You paid for them. How dare someone prevent you from slashing your own tires!<\/p>\n
Friend, I will fight for your right to slash your own tires\u2014just as I will fight for your right to burn your own flag. Remember, burning flags is good for the economy. Stimulates flag sales. Anyone who tells you otherwise is anti-business and anti-American. They are traitors.<\/p>\n
You can either be pro-business or anti-flag burning. Logic dictates you cannot be both. Those who cannot choose are wishy-washy liberals. Which is just another word for traitor. Stand in the middle of the road long enough, buddy, and I will run you down.<\/p>\n
I say defend your rights: Slash a tire today!<\/p>\n
If you do not use your rights you will surely lose them. I understand you may not want to slash the tires on the car you drive to work. You shouldn\u2019t let that stop you. Let me suggest that you slash the tires of city police or state patrol vehicles.<\/p>\n
Do you not pay taxes? Are those not, in fact, your vehicles?<\/p>\n
How could any politician argue otherwise? Do they not all promise to \u201cslash government?\u201d You are just doing your part to help. You are a patriot and you are defending your rights\u2014as well as the rights of all Americans. Anyone who disagrees is a traitor.<\/p>\n
Those tires are yours to give and yours to take away. If they don\u2019t want you to slash them, perhaps they should have business pay for them instead. The businesses write the laws in this country, so they might as well write some checks for the upkeep of their government. They already give money to the politicians and parties, why not to the government? Why should they expect us to pick up the tab?<\/p>\n
The business of government is the business of business. That is why businessmen run and control the business of government.<\/p>\n
We hold this truth to be self evident: that the business of government shall never perish from the earth. To secure this truth, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the businesses governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of business to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.<\/p>\n
The Pepsi generation is ready for a fight.<\/p>\n
Will we leave the field scattered with paper cups and bottle-caps with \u201cSorry, not a winner\u201d imprinted under them?<\/p>\n
We may have no choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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