If you are planning to use a flag as a toilet paper substitute, make sure it is an American flag and not a rainbow flag.
Similar issues arose with Soviet-era outhouses that used newspapers instead of toilet paper. People who failed to remove photos of Stalin from the stack faced a possible one-way trip to the gulags.
Yes, damaging someone elseās property is generally illegal and not a good idea.
On the other hand, months of arson and destruction of businesses, homes, and churches resulted in very few felony convictions, but burning a pride flag resulted in a 15-year sentence.
Can you point to any case from the 2020 riots were a property crime resulted in a similar sentence?
Burning down a church is no big deal. Burning the wrong flag is.
That guy got into an argument at a bar, stole a churches flag, went back to the bar and burned it outside, and threatened to burn the bar down. But what about the looters! If youāre going to commit crimes try to blend in with a group?
Violent groups allied with Democrats enforced the party line in the Jim Crow South and were rarely prosecuted for their crimes. Crimes against the protected class were brutally enforced.