A Nationalist Interrupts Obama's Townhall Meeting

Seems some people just can't get over themselves and their ridiculous obsession with pledging allegiance to symbols. The pledge is a joke. We didn't say it in the Navy. Not once. At best, we had to salute the flag if we were outside and the signal came that it was being lowered (Is it sad that I can't remember if we had to do this when it was raised?) You were also supposed to stop your car. Even then, some people just kept on trucking, and it seemed a bit ridiculous to salute the flag when you couldn't see it.

Why not recite the preamble to the constitution instead of the pledge? You can fly the flag all the live long day and it won't protect your freedom. It won't protect your right to bear arms, won't keep law enforcement from going after you without a warrant and it wont protect your right to vote. Only the constitution does that, and even then, only if Americans are willing to uphold it. The culture warriors and the nationalists/neo-cons only uphold the constitution when it's convenient for them. They stupidly believe, as the homophobes in California do, that say, giving gay men and women the right to get married is somehow taking rights away from straight people. It's insane. Discrimination is not a right. No action that infringes on another's rights is protected by the constitution. Bigots might want to grasp that concept someday. Life would be easier for them. Anyway.

Here are two video's of John Quinn, a freelance photographer with press credentials who thought it appropriate to interrupt Obama from the press riser and inject his nationalist views. When he was confronted he decided he wasn't press now, no, now he just wanted to be John Q. Public. Idiot.




Here he is fleeing, still refusing to say who he is or who gave him his press credentials. The ending is priceless: