I guess it is a stupid way to get your idea across... and it does tend to alienate people.

[sabrina 1]

166. No, what's wrong is your attempt to link one incident of flag burning to the entire OWS

Global Movement and you are failing to make your point, whatever it is.

So to show you how irrelevant that incident is to the Global Occupy Movement, I pointed out that during the era depicted in the OP, flags were also burned. And equally irrelevant to the cause being fought for, as you have now finally understood.

Those flag burning incidents were as irrelevant to everything else that was going on at the time, to the courageous actions of people like Rosa Parks and MLK, as this one is to this movement. But there were people back then, just as we are seeing right here on DU today, who attempted to use such incidents to characterize an entire movement. The Anti-Vietnam movement was also attacked in this way.

I did not see all of this, I was not there, but I have read and know enough about it to know that in my research flag burning during that era was most definitely done and used as this incident is being used now, by those who opposed the cause and to try to smear all those connected with it.

I am glad you finally get the point. I hope people littering this board today with RW nonsense whether they realize or not, if they truly support this movement, understand that helping the far right and the Corporate MSM by spreading their efforts to destroy a movement, is not the way to support it.

Maybe they could spend as much effort, energy and time on the huge number of positive actions that were taking place that same day. But I have not seen much of that from them, which does, I have to say, make me wonder about the motives.