a story of patriotism...

[Kapitan]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

...or rather quite the opposite

yesterday my dad, 64 and heart patient, was brutally arrested and, with only few clothes on him, literally thrown into an ice-cold cell. This all because of one terrible crime...
...he raised the Dutch flag while on the visitors bench in a city council's meeting.

The city counsil was discussing a plan for placing a giant mosque in our neighbourhood. To be the biggest mosque in all the province. Room for 500 mosque-goers, from all over the country, and that while there's already much too less room to park all residents cars, let alone a few hundred more. Not to mention the minarettes and the loud calling for prayers.
Needless to say pretty much all the neighbourhood was against those plans, and a large number of us went to the city council's meeting to protest, and at least see what the outcome would be.
There, my dad put the Dutch flag on his walking stick, and raised it. He was immediately summoned to lower our national flag, which he refused. Within a matter of minutes EIGHT police officers (bit overdone, 8 VS one 64 year old man with bad health) stormed the buiding and dragged my dad straight out, under loud protest of all present.
Luckily eventually the counsil decided against the mosque after all.

Now compare this with the US, rarely do I see any pic without the US flag showing up someplace.

What in the devils name will become of this country if we can't even raise our national flag anymore?!

(PS sorry for this rant but I just want to remind you that how overexaggerated it might look at times, you US citizens should be lucky to still be allowed a little patriotism)

Its not just the dutch that have these issues us brits have it too, our pub got a letter from the counsel stating they were not to put any england flgas up during the world cup incase it offended people.
I bet they wouldnt even bat an eye lid if we raised a nazi flag.