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Originally Posted by Platapus
Well that is a different story. In your original post, you gave me the impression your father was arrested simply for raising the flag. Now it appears that your father was arrested for disturbing the peace, which I assume is more than just waiving a piece of cloth.
Did your father resist the officers, or did he make a disturbance other than raising the flag?
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nope, all he did was raising our flag and refusing to lower it when asked. It isn't illegal to raise the Dutch flag ANYWHERE so they shouldn't even have asked him.
He did resist the officers, but only after he was arrested and cuffed. Most of the 'disturbance' was done by the other people protesting against him being arrested.
I don't know about the US, but here, disturbing the peace is a generic reason the police uses to arrest anyone the government doesn't like (=any patriotism, because of the Dutch racismophobia)
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Originally Posted by Platapus
By my nature I am a law-follower. If something is against the law, I generally don't do it. When I drive, The Frau hates this attitude when it comes to speed limits.  |
Hah you don't know my dad
My dad is of the kind that, if he saw you speeding, would jump in front of you car, stop you and give you a lengthy preach about how you shouldn't break the law.
(in fact, he's done such things on occasion. Foolish as that might be, it shows how he respects the law)