DESECRATE MY FLAG, WILL YOU?!!!

        I RECEIVED AN E~MAIL THIS WEEK THAT GREATLY DISTURBED ME. IN IT THERE WERE PICTURES FROM A RALLY HELD IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA TO PROTEST ARIZONA'S  NEW LAW, SB1070, RELATING TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. THE RALLY WAS HELD JULY 31ST AND DREW THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. IN THESE PICTURES THE PROTESTERS HAD LAID BOTH THE AMERICAN FLAG AND THE STATE FLAG OF ARIZONA ONTO THE GROUND. BOTH FLAGS HAD BEEN SPRAY PAINTED WITH GRAFFITI, ANGRY WORDS, RACIAL UNDERTONES, AND IN GENERAL, HATRED TOWARDS AMERICA . IN ONE OF THE PICTURES THERE WERE REMNANTS FROM TOILET PAPER ROLLS! BOTH FLAGS HAD BEEN DISRESPECTED AND TERRIBLY DESECRATED. JUST TO MAKE THEIR POINT IN CASE WE DIDN'T GET IT, THE PROTESTERS WERE TRAMPLING ACROSS THE FLAGS IN BOLD DEFIANCE, AND TAUNTING LAW ENFORCEMENT, ALMOST BEGGING TO BE ARRESTED.
           WHEN ASKED WHY LAW ENFORCEMENT SEEMED TO BE STANDING IDLY BY, THEY REPLIED, YES IT IS ILLEGAL TO DESECRATE THE AMERICAN FLAG. HOWEVER, THE CRIME FALLS UNDER FEDERAL JURISDICTION. IF THE FEDS WILL NOT PROSECUTE ILLEGAL ALIENS THEN THEY MOST DEFINITELY WON'T BOTHER WITH SOMETHING AS MINOR AS THE DESECRATION OF THE AMERICAN FLAG!
               I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I FIND THIS TO BE TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLEI! I HAVE A DEAR FRIEND WHOSE PARENTS CAME TO THE STATES FROM MEXICO ALMOST 80 YEARS AGO. SHE WAS EDUCATED THROUGH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, AND EVEN MADE HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. IN HER EARL  20'S SHE WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A U.S. CITIZEN. WHEN SHE WAS  OUT OF COLLEGE, SHE WORKED TIRELESSLY AS A NURSE , AND EVEN AT THE AGE OF 75, SHE CONTINUED TO TAKE CARE OF BOTH, THE ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PEOPLE. I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS ONE OF HER PATIENTS. 
            THIS WOMEN VALUED HER AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD! SHE IS PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. THESE PEOPLE AT THIS RALLY IN ARIZONA DON'T DESERVE THE  PRIVILEGE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. AFTER ALL, THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW BY BEING HERE ILLEGALLY!  IT IS MY IMPRESSION THAT THEY WANT TO CLAIM THESE BORDER STATES AS PART OF MEXICO! IF THEY ARE SO HAPPY WITH MEXICO AND THEIR WAY OF LIFE DOWN THERE WHY DON'T THEY JUST GO BACK HOME, FOR GOD'S SAKE!!
               MY FATHER ALWAYS HELD THE VIEW THAT IF MEXICANS INSISTED ON STAKING A CLAIM ON THE BORDER STATES THAN WE SHOULD OBLIGE THEM BY DROPPING  A NUCLEAR BOMB THAT WOULD COMPLETELY LEVEL ALL TRACES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AS WE KNOW IT TODAY, AND ONLY THEN HAND IT BACK TO THEM WITH A BIG RED RIBBON TIED AROUND IT!
               JUST A LITTLE FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
           GET A CLUE! DON'T MESS WITH OLD GLORY!!