White Woman Steals Flag, Resists Arrest - Watch What Happens

[L0oniX]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378893/-White-Woman-Steals-Flag-Resists-Arrest-Watch-What-Happens?detail=facebook_sf

Do we have a new Michele Bachmann?

[think]

1. wow /nt

[Voice for Peace]

2. oh dear

that was kind of entertaining.. will there be a go fund me site for her?

[L0oniX]

28. "will there be a go fund me site for her?" LMFAO

I can think of another site with a replacement word for "fund"

[Downtown Hound]

3. She was tased multiple times and then strangled to death?

Oh no, wrong skin color. Still entertaining to watch. Amazing the entitlement some people have. She thinks she can just go and take somebody else's property because she doesn't like how its being used. Had the roles been reversed in that situation the police would have been way more aggressive than they were. Still nice to see her get he ass handed to her.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Indeed, wrong skin color.

If she'd been black, she'd have been writhing on the ground with a taser dart in her thigh.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

27. Here in Ohio, we have: 'Ohio cop refuses to resort to deadly force'

I wanted to be absolutely sure

Cop faces down double murderer, is repeatedly charged by him, while the guy shouts 'shoot me' and won't show that his hands are empty, even gets the cop to trip at one point. Cope refuses to shoot at him even once.

One guess as to the double murderer's skin tone.

[Oilwellian]

4. With my best bitter beer face:

"Is there a reason why you officers didn't stick up for her stealing the flag?"

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. LOL!

Thanks for the laugh.

[tomm2thumbs]

19. at 5:00 in... 'Call the media contacts from this morning'?-- hmmmm

Gotta work the room...

bwahahahahah

[Sandman2]

29. Justice for All?

Eric Garner..."I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe." DEAD

Michelle Manhart..."Call our media contacts" so we can get exposure through the right-wing outlets. PLANNING HER MEDIA TOUR

The differences are a bit glaring!

[packman]

5. Prediction Man here saying

"She'll be either on Sean Hannity or O'really show tonight. Also she'll be running as a Republican candidate in some soon upcoming election"

[TrollBuster9090]

33. The bad news is that the Faketriot crowd at Faux News has a new darling.

The good news is that, now that Faux News has somebody with Sarah Palin's looks and Oliver North's medals, they can dump both of THOSE losers. Even the rubes that watch Fox are getting bored with them.

[SpankMe]

8. My observations - pro and con...

1. She's impassioned about protecting the dignity of the flag. I can't slam her for that. Most people - even many liberals I know - think desecration of the flag to make a political point (even a legitimate point) is stupid. Not illegal, just stupid.

2. She's committing an act of civil disobedience to make her point. We in the progressive camp generally endorse civil disobedience to protest injustice. What she's doing is relatively benign and non-violent. Ferguson protesters committed non-violent acts of civil disobedience by sitting in the street blocking traffic, refusing to disperse at the direction of police, and going limp when police were arresting them and physically taking them in to custody. I don't disagree with these acts.

3. The job of the police is to enforce the law (which they're doing by trying to get the flag from the woman and return it to the rightful owners). Also, the police's job is to preserve the peace (which they're doing by intervening at all and preventing a possible physical altercation between the woman and the flag protesters).

4. She has apparently wrapped the flag around a rifle or a model of a rifle. The police did not shoot her, nor tase her. They physically wrestled her to the ground and took it away. This was the correct way to handle it. If this was an African-American male in a similar context, I'm sure most of the officers would have felt "threatened" and taken more drastic, possibly deadly action. This is really the most interesting aspect of the video, to me...the clear illustration of difference in police response between confrontations with a black male presumed to be armed, and a white female with an even greater appearance of being armed.

[WillTwain]

10. Videos of black males not resisting arrest at all ended up in death.

She was unscathed after clearly resting arrest. The double-standard makes me ill.

I do not think anybody should be beaten, but she did much worse than Eric Garner.

[Downtown Hound]

14. I think desecration of the flag is constitutionally protected speech

I also think it's foolish to worship symbols, as it creates brainwashing and blind obedience. If everybody that claimed to pledge allegiance to the flag actually cared more about the injustices in this country as much as they did about a $2.00 piece of cloth made in China, we'd be in much better shape.

She is not committing civil disobedience, she is stealing somebody's property in a moment of irrational anger and refusing to acknowledge she is doing so. The first rule of civil disobedience is to acknowledge that you are breaking the law.

No argument with you about what the police are doing, except I agree with that there is a double standard. If this woman was black she would be dead or in the hospital right now.

[jtuck004]

16. She's impassioned about telling these uppity black folk what to do. Hiding behind the flag

like a coward.

Had she been black her head would have been cracked open.

Piece of shit needs to be sitting in a jail cell.

[frylock]

20. GOP ‘Hero’ Who ‘Saved’ Flag Also Posed Nude With It Dragging The Ground

Dignity of the flag?

http://reverbpress.com/news/michelle-manhart-posed-nude-with-flag/

[Voice for Peace]

31. WARNING video at that link of her talking about the evil of the fur industry, graphic pictures

can't criticize her for that, though.

[unblock]

30. i don't think stealing from private citizens can really qualify as "civil disobedience".

"civil disobedience" isn't defined particularly rigidly, but certainly it's usually actions taking against, or in defiance of, governments to object to governmental impositions that people feel are unjust or unwarranted.

it's rather hard to justify stealing from another individual as an act of "civil disobedience".

no, this one is better filed at "taking the law into her own hands" or "vigilantism".

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. She puts the hand he's trying to cuff into her crotch like it's a vault.

[Geronimoe]

11. Made in China

It is highly probable that the Flag was made in China by slave labor.

[L0oniX]

26. ^^^this^^^

[James48]

15. She posed nude with the flag, according to this.

Her respect for the flag appears to vary.

Here is an article where she (Michelle Manhart) previously posed nude with the vary same Stars and Stripes.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026536133


Tisk-Tisk.

[MrScorpio]

17. Fox News has a new hero...

She'll probably be on Hannity tonight.

[Midnight Writer]

37. Close. Megyn Kelly got her first.

It's a two-fer for Fox. First, they can show this lady posed nude in Playboy with an American Flag draped over her shoulders and dragging the ground. Second, they can claim this lady is being persecuted for standing up for the symbol of our country.

Titillation and outrage in one story. How can this not sell?

[jwirr]

18. Isn't there a pic somewhere of W stepping on the American flag? By the way - where did this take

place?

[tomm2thumbs]

21. Car said 'Voldosta St' -- Voldosta State University

Valdosta, GA 31698

[tomm2thumbs]

23. 3 day old story -- I'm sure FoxNews will need it for their slow news day

...and slow newscasters

[rgbecker]

22. No one said being a cop was going to be easy.

Jesus! The stuff they have to put up with. You gotta figure 10% of the people on the street are out of their minds.

White or Black, it's good to see a situation well handled.

[heaven05]

24. american justice,

pure and simple......for those with privilege.

[Warpy]

25. "A policeman's job is not a happy one"

These guys are remarkably cool throughout this, I doubt if I'd have stayed as cool. The "protect the flag but hurt other people" twit will be let go after she cools off and someone comes to get her.

If she'd been black, pepper spray would have been used. I'm pretty sure of that.

[Half-Century Man]

32. Points she will never make.

Every flag bedecked napkin at every 4th of July picnic is a flagrant desecration of the Flag.
Every car flag tortured by constant sixty mile an hour wind is desecration.
Every flag patterned bathing suit gently cupping the genitals of some sweaty obese "patriot" is desecration.

By taking the oath of service she should have understood some things.
1) The first thing mentioned in the oath is the Constitution of the United States; service members swear to protect the ideas outlined in the Constitution before the country, government, or citizens.
2). The first modification of the Constitution was the Bill of Rights, the first of which prohibits, first, the establishment of a national religion; which includes the deification of the country and it's symbols, no part of anything connected to the United States can legally be considered anything by secular. A single copy out of the millions of varied copies based on a similar theme of a secular item lacks any special status.
3) Immediately following the prohibition of national religion in the first provision of the first set of amendments clearly states citizens have completely free speech. Which includes using items in political statements both pro-cultural and anti-cultural.


In the end our flag is just like every other piece of heraldry; to mark a place or person of importance in the confusion during the heat of battle. How much you revere it depends on what you got out of what it represents versus what it cost you.

To take the property of another is theft, not your free speech.
To make a free speech statement protecting a flag publicly desecrated as a political statement would have been to place yourself in harms way. Lay on it and let protesters walk on you instead.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

34. You rang?

[Half-Century Man]

35. Thank you.

Now I must scrub my brain with tequila to get "THAT" out of it.

[valerief]

36. Another case of EnWHITElment. nt