27 October 2006

Hey! Flag burners! Arrest them!

When is flag burning OK? When it's the flag of a country or organisation that we don't like.

Protestors in Farmington, New Mexico burned the UN flag to show their disquiet at the proposed UN small arms control treaty. The bloody UN didn't listen and passed a resolution authorising the start of work on a treaty regulating the international trade in small arms against US wishes. The US being the only country to oppose the resolution although other countries, largely arms exporters as well, abstained. The US prefers "voluntary" controls instead. They always work out so well!

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