Allen West Violates Federal Law During Weekend Diving Trip

• Mathew, Our flag is flying freely, and beautifully with Allen West, and the picture with Sara, its is draped over the chair not touching the ground, so go look for some liberal disrespecting something like our Constitution....they are everywhere.

• WTF does the moon have to do with anything? And if you're upset about bowing (which is an international custom and sign of respect -- not that you would know anything about respect), I'll bet you were just REALLY pissed off about a President who held hands with and kissed a Saudi prince*, weren't you? *You know, the people who financed 9/11. http://tinyurl.com/6jxjlp7 How's that for an "offense against Old Glory", dumbass?

• You do realize that it's not just homosexuals who teabag, right? It's not like there's some super secret gay formula for some guy to squat over someone's mouth.

• My unfortunate experience with West, I am also a vet, and an activist... i am one of only two, democrat supporters. i have heard over the past two years on LOU DOBBS /SCHNITT / and AMERICAN ADVISER ..but , my AM TALK "coming of ag"e was due to being a caller to Joyce Kaufman and i was the first Black liberal to debate West( "just before he was chosen to inoculate local Republicans from charges of Racism , in the course of their incessant attacks on President Obama. he(West), actually lost it on air and screamed( "i am sick and tired of you Kevin" )..but my experience with some of his local supporters is even more disturbing ...during his campaign his followers that were placing his campaign posters around town (Ed Larson is one name that was told to me ) ...WOULD STALK ME..and on four separate occassions i was granted a work contract (no WEST sign in the yard) ...THEN WHEN I RETURNED (now a WEST for CONGRESS SIN IS THERE )..THIS HAPPENED..... all over POMPANO and FT LAUDERDALE and there would be certain FT LAUDERDALE POLICE OFFICERS and BROWARD SHERIFFS "assist" in their harassment of me as punishment for SUPPORTING PRESDIENT OBAMA ..I HAVE BEEN ILLEGALLY EVICTED (on three occassions) FROM PLACES I HAD PAID RENT FOR 6 MONTHS  AND MORE THEN IN EACH CASE MY PERSONAL BELONGINIGS (all my clothing , family heirlooms etc, were confiscated thrown away )....WOULD DISSAPPEAR...and the landloards were told CERTAIN OFFICERS WOULD 'COVER" THEM EEVN IN AN ILLEGAL EVICTION !.all in an obvious attempt to INTIMIDATE me as a VOCAL SUPPORTER OF PRESIDENT OBAMA ...I have LOST WORK (the most recent was a customer who greated me saying"when Obama sends me some money then you can get some more work )...this WORK impact has happened on several occassions (here is the rub unless Wests nutty supporters were stalking me how do i get into an Obama conversation to the point that i am told there is no more work here when in some cases i had worked there 4/5 years and i NEVER discussed politics ) THIS IS MOSTLY THE CORAL RIDGE AREA OF FT LAUDERDALE /POMPANO i am working in ....

• Too many issues in today's world to think anything of this story.

• I love it when liberals call the men and women who serve our country as "unpatriotic."  Of course to liberals, anything less than Sharia Law is unpatriotic.

• Using it as a prop? Who does that more than the Repukelicans, doing everything with a flag but deepthroating it.

• The corexit caused the oil to become submerged. Don't believe the corporate whore media, whose biggest advertisers are Big Oil. The oil is there, dopey.

• Impeach Alan West now.

• West hates gays...

• How about "retard," retard. Oooooh, no! I just insulted Trig!

• What? Do recall that time at school when you were taught English?

• Damn, Palin is HOT and West is awesome. Come on you WeinerCrats - admit it!

• I didn't think you'd read it. ..........whatever makes YOU feel better.  West didn't lie on any video. He said exactly what you said which I refuted. Me and the "black" women on the video. Admit it.......... You got your a$$ handed to you on a plate. My LLOOONGG response was in reply to the long litany of yours. I put my reply in caps to make it stand out from yours.  More readable. Since I couldn't "reply" as is normal. You proved to be exactly the kind of idiot I thought you'd be.  Closed mind, snapped shut.. Didn't I predict it? :) I'm not writing for you.  I'm writing for those that can see that your "lies" about West aren't true and I gave facts to prove it, unlike yours which just quoted mainly........... just mainly progressive sites. Obviously, you had to look long and hard to find even those tidbits about his "opinions". Not very varied and definitely with an agenda........But, I'm the one that is "parroting" and "hating". LOL! At least you quit calling West's opinions "lies".  You're a child nanook.  A child.  And, an ignorant one as well. And, now you are running away. I thought you were " ready and waiting to make a fool out of anyone who wants to pretend like west doesn't LIKE through his teeth on a regular basis". All it took was ONE reply to your post and you run. Typical.

• OMG ALL CAPS ON TOP OF WHICH I KNOW ALL and clearly, a progressive blog that has video of west lying, well, it must just be CGI, lol.... i'm glad what one would call "bigotry" you call "opinion." that must make you feel much better about hating women and muslims. now if only they were YOUR opinion and not double-down lies you're parroting from the tea party echo chamber... goodbye troll.

• There you go--you don't drink salt water, you dope.  That's what's making you stupid.  Use the tap--it's better for you. Oh, and btw--where IS all that oil that you greenies wailed and gnashed your teeth over?  Worst environmental catastrophe in history?  HA!  I know you were counting on having another club to bash the oil industry over the head with, but it didn't happen and deprived you of the cataclysm we know you were really hoping for. Sad state of affairs when people want bad things to happen to their fellow Americans so they can advance their nutty agenda.

• Bash the "Black Man" continually, Right!?!  Then throw in the sexy picture of Sarah Palin with flag and BAM, this Blog is officially "Anti-Black aaand Anti-Women!  It fits in perfectly with Debbie Wasserman-Shultz's campaign of exposig evil people and groups of being Anti-Women and now Anti-Black and needs to take a REAL close look at this Blog.  And what about the flag on the moon when it passes 'beneath' the earth?

• This is rich...Progeressives concerned about anything having to do with an American flag, other than burning it or otherwise using it as a prop. When any of you actually serve your country, then come back and opine.

• Appears that you failed MindReading 101. I've got plenty of critical thinking and enough to know you are full of crap to be comparing the Revolutionary Times to today in order to excuse Ayer's crimes.  This isn't  a Philosophy class.  It's real life, dealing with real issues, not some fanciful ideas of some idealistic professor, or you. Ayers is a criminal in today's society.  I could care less how he "might" have been viewed, "possibly" been viewed 250 years ago because those conditions don't exist today. The fact that I "might" have been a  Tory back then, doesn't mean that I agree now with what England's views were then, looking through the lenses of today.  Doesn't compute. And, because Ayers "may" have been seen as a hero to "SOME" back then (not all), doesn't mean that he is one today. Your argument comes close to being in the realm of Argumentum ad Verecundiam. So, go take your affected air of superiority and "possibilites" and "might have beens" and peddle them to someone else less educated and with a little less worldly experiences. Thank you for insulting both Beck and me with the same sentence. Argumentum ad Hominem and a variation of it...... Poisoning The Wells In fact, I take back my guess at your being a professor. The superior air belies that you don't have any higher education at all, or you wouldn't be using the time-worn criticism about Beck.........it's a little stale and a little too common for a professor to make. My guess is high school is the highest you've obtained, which puts you about 8 years behind me. And, since you can't win by using facts, you try to stupify with bullshyte.

• I see you skipped Critical Thinking 101 in college if not college altogether.  Glenn Beck is no substitute for academia.

• ***************** Model Citizen 1 hour ago in reply to eztalk If we lived in the period of the Revolutionary War, Bill Ayers would be stomping on the flag of the imperial, fascist British government.  Laura George would be lining up to walk through hell with a gasoline can for the corrupt royal generals.  If she had it her way, we would all be pledging our allegiance to the Union Jack.  Think about it. ********** Again, no reply button. Don't have to think of it. Whatdehell does the Revolutionary Times have to do with today???? Unless you are positing that Ayers and Obama are mounting a revolution?  You may be right there............is that what you are saying? You are excusing Ayers because of what???!!!   If he and we were alive during the Revolutionary Times while we were breaking away from England, he would be considered a hero? WTH?  Using the same logic, if we were alive during the  Jurrasic times, we would most likely be small mammals running through the tropical forests of Pangaea ....................got absolutely nothing to do with...........TODAY.  Are you some kind of freshman in a  beginning Philosophy class where everything is relative? Or, worse, a teacher of it?   Believe me, been there, done that.  I find your logic totally "infantile" (to use your words), nonsensical, overreaching, senseless, foolish, and absurd .......and just flat twaddle, and totally worthless in these current non-revolutionary times..  Unless you know something your not willing to share and are just flat out admitting that you are seeking the overthrow of this present form of government? If so, FO. We aren't in the Revolutionary Times. We have a functioning government (if we can wrest it from Obama's hands before he completely destroys it ) and Ayers is a criminal DURING TODAY'S TIMES.

• If we lived in the period of the Revolutionary War, Bill Ayers would be stomping on the flag of the imperial, fascist British government.  Laura George would be lining up to walk through hell with a gasoline can for the corrupt royal generals.  If she had it her way, we would all be pledging our allegiance to the Union Jack.  Think about it.

• It boggles the mind that you would find her statements infantile. I find your statements actually infantile to be so simplistic.  Many agree with her.

• It boggles the mind that someone could get through life with such an infantile viewpoint of the world.

• Can't reply to your post in the usual way........no reply button.  I think you mean "lie" through his teeth"? **********yes eztalk, i'm ready and waiting to make a fool out of anyone who wants to pretend like west doesn't like through his teeth on a regular basis (this is not to underscore what a not story this article is) "Rep. Allen West Falsely Claims China Controls The Panama Canal" thinkprogress.org http://thinkprogress.org/2011/... ***************************** FIRST OF ALL........YOU'RE LAUGHABLE..  HELLO!  "FALSELY?" LOL! Looks like the MAJORITY of people agree with him!  And, you call him a liar???!  You take a progressive website as proof? Here's link of all the people that disagree with YOU and your WEBSITE.  A whole list of them.  THIS IS A MAJOR CONCERN AMONG MANY PEOPLE. NOT JUST WEST. BUT, I GUESS THEY ALL ARE "LIARS". http://www.bing.com/search?q=does+china+control+panama+canal&form=OSDSRC ************"To let these other women know...we are not going to have our men become subservient. That’s what we need you to do. Because if you don’t, then the debt will continue to grow…deficits will continue to grow. " http://thinkprogress.org/2011/... *************** YET ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE WEBSITE!  CAN'T YOU DO BETTER?  SURELY IF WEST WAS "LYING", YOU COULD FIND SOME IMPARTIAL WEBSITE TO SAY SO.  THIS ISN'T A LIE!  IT'S AN OPINION.......  O-PIN-YUN. AND ONE THAT  I HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH HIM..........BET THAT BLOWS YOU AWAY. NITWIT. AS DID ALL THE WOMEN THAT WERE HEARD AGREEING WITH HIM. ARE YOU A RACIST? THOSE WOMEN WERE OBVIOUSLY BLACK THAT WERE LOUDLY AGREEING WITH HIM. AND AS A WHITE WOMAN, I AGREE WITH THEM AND HIM......... I THINK THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT HAS A LOT OF GOOD AND A LOT OF BAD TO THIS NATION INCLUDING CODE PINK AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD.......DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MILLIONS OF BABIES THAT HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY PP? 50 million abortions in the U.S. since Roe Vs. Wade. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_babies_have_been_aborted_in_America_since_Roe_v._Wade#ixzz1PQoAR6Zf THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A PROGRESSIVE WEBSITE CALLING NAMES.  NOT A "LIE "ON WEST'S PART..........NOW YOU MAY BE GUILTY OF TELLING A LIE BY CALLING HIS STATEMENT A LIE.  I'LL BUY THAT. ************************Allen West Reiterates Obama ‘Dictator’ Remarks: ‘Low-Level Socialist Agitator’ http://www.theblaze.com/storie... ***************** DON'T EVEN HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS.  OBAMA IS A LOW-LEVEL SOCIALIST.  AND, YOU THINK JUST WEST THINKS THIS WAY???!!  PITIFUL.  PITIFUL RESPONSE.  YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW A DAMNED THING ABOUT HIS PAST.  HE TAUGHT ANLINSKY'S  RULES IN A CLASSROOM........TOO MUCH TO GO INTO.  YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY WITHOUT A CLUE HERE. THIS IS THE BEST YOU CAN COME UP WITH CONCERING "LIES"?  lol! ******************"Palestine is a region, not a people or a modern state. Based upon Roman Emperor Hadrian's declaration in 73 AD, the original Palestinian people are the Jewish people" http://west.house.gov/index.ph... **************** HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU, BUPPY.  HE'S CORRECT. IT IS JUST A REGION. THIS IS NOT A RACE OF PEOPLE. THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF WHAT IS CALLED PALESTINE WERE THE JEWS.   I CAN SEE THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BIBLICAL HISTORY. "PALESTINIANS" ARE JUST REFUGEES AND STATELESS CITIZENS FROM VARIOUS OTHER COUNTRIES, WITH VARIOUS LANGUAGES AND BELIEFS, WHO SETTLED  IN THE REGION AFTER, AFTER, AFTER THE JEWS CAME TO LIVE THERE AROUND 1800B.C. THE LAND   WAS CALLED JUDEA AND ISRAEL (REMEMBER JUDEA AND ISRAEL?) FROM 1800 BC UNTIL 61BC OR SO..........ERMMM.......THAT WOULD BE.... ........LIKE..........1800 YEARS BEFORE IT WAS RENAMED " PALESTINE". AFTER THE ROMANS DEFEATED THESE TWO KINGDOMS  THEY NAMED THE AREA PALESTINA AT ABOUT 132AD.. TOO MUCH TO EXPLAIN.... BUT WEST IS RIGHT.  YOU, OTOH, ARE WRONG. http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm http://www.middleeastfacts.com/Articles/myth-of-the-palestinian-people.php ******************In Which West tells us that Egypt will be taken over the by the Muslim Brotherhood: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.... *************** WHICH MANY PEOPLE OTHER THAN WEST BELIEVE AS WELL! THIS ISN'T A "LIE".  IT'S ANOTHER OPINION THAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE.  SHEESH! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ YOUR NEWSPAPER.  GAWD! STRATFOR IS AN INTELLIGENCE GATHERING AGENCY, GREATLY RESPECTED FOR THEIR INTEL. NON-PARTISAN AS THEY COME. http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110129-red-alert-hamas-and-muslim-brotherhood http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110201-dispatch-muslim-brotherhoods-strategies-egypt-and-jordan http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/106617/20110129/muslim-brotherhood-and-hamas-seek-to-increase-role-in-egypt-stratfor.htm http://www.bing.com/search?q=muslim+brotherhood+and+egypt+and+stratfor&form=OSDSRC ************************Calls his fellow congressman who is a muslim evil: http://floridaindependent.com/.. .*******************' HE DIDN'T CALL THE CONGRESSMAN EVIL. A "LIE" ON YOUR PART HERE. HIS STATEMENTS WERE ABOUT ISLAM, WHICH WAS THE QUESTION ASKED OF HIM............AND THERE ARE MANY THAT AGREE WITH HIS STATEMENT! LET'S LOOK AT THE WHOLE EXCHANGE WHICH HE WAS GOADED INTO SAYING BY PERITZ: "The exchange occurred when the host Richard Peritz asked, “Since you’re with a new crowd, people you haven’t really met before, and will be very closely associating with in the future, including Keith Ellison, who supports ISLAM, how will you manage that?” Rep. West responded, “Well I think it’s most important that I stand upon the principles that people elected me to go to Washington, D.C., and represent them on Capitol Hill.” He added, “So that when you run into someone that is counter, or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you’ve got to be able to defeat them intellectually in debate and discourse, and you to just have to be able to challenge each and every one of their assertions very wisely and very forthright.” YET ANOTHER OPINION (NO LIE) AND ONE THAT I AGREE WITH............... AS DO MANY PEOPLE WHO FEAR SHARIA LAW. AND SHARIA IS COUNTER TO OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES! AND SHARIA LAW HAS ALREADY COME TO THIS NATION. HONOR KILLINGS ARE ALREADY TAKING PLACE. YOU KNOW LITTLE OF SHARIA, APPARENTLY, AND THE PLANS. GOOGLE IT. ..........NO, I'LL SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE. HERE IS A FORMER PALESTINIAN TERRORIST WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY AND BECAME A U.S. CITIZEN. LETS HEAR HIM SPEAK: http://www.shoebat.com/blog/archives/393 WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? HE'D SAY THE SAME THING ABOUT BEING OPPOSED TO IT IF THE GUYS WAS .A MEMBER OF OBAMA'S CHURCH.  IS THIS ANY WORSE THAN WHAT I'VE HEARD PALIN CALLED ON THIS VERY FORUM?  ROLFLMAO! SO FAR, GUY YOU'VE NOT PROVEN ANYTHING OTHER THAN YOUR DESPERATION TO ATTEMPT TO TRY TO MAKE  A POINT, AND YOUR TOTAL IGNORANCE OF HISTORY AND PRESENT DAY POLITICS IN DOING SO. LAY OFF THE KOOL-AIDE...........IT'S INJURING YOUR BRAIN. JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, AGREE WITH WHAT HE'S SAYING, OR BECAUSE YOU ARE IGNORANT (MEANS "UNTAUGHT") OF HISTORY AND POLITICS.........DOESN'T MAKE HIM A " LIAR". DO I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO LAY DOWN YOUR RABID HATRED OF THIS MAN OR ANY CONSERVATIVE ? NO. YOU'RE TOO DEEP INTO IT AND LIKE MOST LIBERALS ARE LEAD BY YOUR YING-YANG BY THE LIBERAL PRESS AND WEBSITES TO BELIEVE WHATEVER "LIES" AND TRASH THEY PUT OUT. GOOD CASE OF "PROJECTION" THERE, BUPPY. LOOK IT UP.

• It appears that a blog on West and his flag brings out the right wing en masse.  They must have gotten their writing orders from Glen Beck or Sean. Too bad that they all seem to have lost their sense of humor years ago.  This is the same bunch that dropped acid, protested against the Viet Nam war, wore bell bottoms with flag patches, and smoked everything in sight during the 1960s and 70s.  Stop with the name calling, communist, socialist, racist, et al. Nothing is gained by hateful speech.  You people need to lighten up.

• yes eztalk, i'm ready and waiting to make a fool out of anyone who wants to pretend like west doesn't like through his teeth on a regular basis (this is not to underscore what a not story this article is) "Rep. Allen West Falsely Claims China Controls The Panama Canal" thinkprogress.org http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/06/allen-west-china-panama-canal/ "To let these other women know...we are not going to have our men become subservient. That’s what we need you to do. Because if you don’t, then the debt will continue to grow…deficits will continue to grow. " http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/25/allen-west-liberal-women/ Allen West Reiterates Obama ‘Dictator’ Remarks: ‘Low-Level Socialist Agitator’ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/allen-west-reiterates-obama-dictator-remarks-low-level-socialist-agitator/ "Palestine is a region, not a people or a modern state. Based upon Roman Emperor Hadrian's declaration in 73 AD, the original Palestinian people are the Jewish people" http://west.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4216%3Acongressman-allen-west-response-to-president-barack-obamas-call-for-a-two-state-solution-in-israel&catid=73%3Apress-releases&Itemid=2 In Which West tells us that Egypt will be taken over the by the Muslim Brotherhood: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2011/01/allen_west_egypt_uprising_fox_huckabee.php Calls his fellow congressman who is a muslim evil: http://floridaindependent.com/20016/rep-west-muslim-congressman-represents-the-%E2%80%98antithesis-of-the-principles-upon-which-this-country-was-established%E2%80%99

• the taliban would be proud...

•  I would walk through hell with a gasoline can for this man. A true leader in a nation of socialist and communists that want to 'fundamentally transform' America. Obama just forgot to mention that his idea of transformation is the same vision as Karl Marx's. His buddy, Bill Ayers standing on the flag is exactly opposite of what Mr.West's action portrays in this photo.

• I've said the same thing some posts back, along with some of the sunken ships that have flags attached.   The more this truth is pounded into the heads of  these bone-headed changeling neophytes, the better it is.  Maybe they'll learn something. ??

• You. He has displayed no hatred whatsoever. You OTOH have it dripping from your pores. Care to declare (with links) which facts he's misstated?

• Putz. All the armed forces do this and it's not a "federal law" http://brainshavings.com/2011/06/stupid-leftist-flag-flap-of-the-day.html

• oooh yes i'm a whippersnapper that hates truth, i addict babies to meth too just because i hate all them old people and their civilization, lmfao

• I'm sick of addressing the big fat revisionist turd that is paragraph 2 so I'll ignore it other than to say, typical wingnut assumption to say someone that disagrees with you is a Democrat. 1. Yes, you are reading "news." You will rarely find people recapping this event you seem so fixated on a "news" site. I know it's tough. 2. What the hell was racist about Bill Ayers standing on a flag?

• so old racism is acceptable?  that must be why you leftards ignore the facts that is was the Democraps who founded and supported the KKK all these years while the Republicans were supporting equal rights. face it, your hypocrisy is exceeded only by your willful ignorance.

• Not sure how to take that, eztalk.  Is it directed at me, or at Mr. West's propensity to misstate facts?

• Hey, shithead, artificial reefs are placed in the water to attract coral and other sea life.  They usually consist of boulders, rocks, chunks of concrete, etc., not elaborate fake coral reproductions.  If you look closely at the photo above, it even looks like corals have begun to grow on the reef. And if YOU read more carefully, you would have noticed that I referenced the artificial reef in my comment.

• I've got a flag tattoo on my dick that I'd like to proudly display to your tonsils.

• Hatred knows no bounds and does not respond to facts or truths.

• You're just an ignorant fool.  Probs a very young one at that. You prefer your hatred to truth.  It's your mind, your body that you are destroying. I feel for you. That's your choice. But, other readers can read what you've written and the facts that are being presented.............and make up their mind.  You don't come off too good, I'm afraid. Witticisms of Ignorance It 's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame.

• His flag display is entirely consistent with Mr. West wearing military badges on his civilian suit . . . blatant pandering to the patriotic among us.  However, lest anyone forget, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."-- Samuel Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson) According to historians, Mr. Johnson was not speaking of all patriotism, only "false patriotism."  While I do not accuse Mr. West of that, I do accuse him of pandering.  We're better than that, Mr. West.  Appeal, instead, to our intellect if you can.

• again, waaah waah wah. you're the one ranting about atmospheres and submarines in response to a muck-raking story, who needs to get a life again?

• nanook. your reasoning is lacking and pathetic in that you sound like a thug who when beating a person complains that they are guilty and that their reactions are "overblown", or they wouldn't be screaming so loudly. It is also pathetic in its inattention to the facts............ apparently you don't read any posts beyond your own: You people need to get a life.  As someone else stated, submarines fly American flags all the time and I'm sure some water splashs on it while steaming. That's why nylon flags are made. Clearly the meaning of the law is not that the flag should not EVER touch water (as the flag code also specifies that a flag can be flown in inclement weather as long as it is constructed of all weather material), but that it should not hang down to touch whatever is below it. And, here is something interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Matthew obviously isn’t a diver, nor does he understand the several ‘atmospheres’ we deal with. (land, Air and Sea) In the normal air breathing atmosphere the Flag shall not touch the ground, water, or anything ‘beneath’ the air… underwater, which is an atmosphere unto itself, the flag is flying and shall not touch the submarine (ship), bottom, or any other object that touches the floor of the lake, sea, or ocean. Rep West broke no law, nor did he disgrace the flag by having it underwater (flying it underwater) … he was flying it properly in another medium (in this case water) and it was not touching the ground, air, or other object attached to the floor of that atmosphere. Has this blogger ever commented on this picture at the bottom?  I've seen it plenty of times and think I've even heard some leftist's say it's "freedom of speech". http://americanglob.com/2011/0... "Memorial" flags on sunken ships are perfectly acceptable underwater per military code and old navy tradition. It is seen as the flag always on staff, even on the ship as it sunk. For example, on the USS Speigle Grove. http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... http://divehappy.com/thailand/...

• yes its sooooo racist to post news that happened this month instead of 20 years ago!

• the author is this "news article" is obviously racist, since he singles a black man out for criticism, yet says nothing about a white man, Bill Ayers, standing on a flag for a photo.

• Sure, you criticize our representative for desecrating the flag, but defend the "freedom of speech" when some leftwing asshole burns the flag. Maybe you need to reexamine your editorial values.

• the only story here is that a lieberal actually recognized an American flag that wasn't on fire or being trampled in the street by a fellow dirt bag. your false patriotism is as pathetic as your incompetent  Present-dent.

• So has Obama

• really? how's your 4th, 5th, and 1st amendments doing?

• OMG! what's your point?

• the overblown reaction is the only justification for this story, and you whiners sure provided it, lol

• Which isn't wrong.  You need to brush up on your maritime rules and flag flying.  there's plenty of links on this site to do so.

• Seee.............."moron" again.  LOL!  Do libs do anything but call names, insult, and twist the truth? It would be refreshing to talk to one that doesn't. Doesn't really bring anyone around to your viewpoint, ya know?

• And, neither is the flag that West put into the reef. Nowhere, nowhere was any report that he touched the ground , the ship, or the bottom of the sea with this flag. Only the pole it was on touched the reef. Sheesh! That's some myth you've picked up, which libs are noted for.  So, who's the dipshit now? BTW, what did you call Bush?  The President? I highly doubt it. You need to find some other word than "moron" to call people. It sounds too much like projection because you use it so much. Look it up.

• Ok, more lies. Obama hasn't run up the debt? On another note... did you know that you're a baggee if they're "baggers"? Do you need to use a homosexual slur in order to make your point? Pretty sad

• This is actually a lie.  The charges were ultimately referred to an Article 15 proceeding rather than court-martial, at which West was fined $5,000.

• It's already here and doing neither of those 2 things.

• Kind of a racist aren't you Matty?

• Matthew you should get a real job reporting news like the 14 service men who recieved medals for valor in Afghanstan 2 were silver stars with V for valor. If you took the time to find the flag code you would know that a flag should never be attached to an article of clothing. Every service man and woman are in violation, why don't you try to enforce that rule.  

• Allow me to continue, since we both know, you were disbarred in the State of Texas. First, you have your story wrong - you took the data propogated on the Internet by Sylvia Poitier's nephew -- a wanker that recently proposed convicted sexual predators should be allowed to teach our youth.  So congratulations on being part of Poitier's team! Next, had you known the whole story, you would have learned that all three restraining orders were immediately thrown out for lack of evidence. So what you read in a complaint and what really happened is often two different stories. Also, should you have practiced law in Florida (but you can't since you were thrown out of the Bar in Texas) you'd have known that Judge Vonhoff lost his bench because of his making up rules as he goes.   There was never any violence.   Not once.   Which is a precursor for the injunction.  Vonhoff handed out these injunctions without following the rule of law. However, I violated a no contact order.   3 days before it expired (5 months and 28 days).   What I did was wrong, I admitted that to the court, and took my licks.   Also this happened almost a decade ago.     But you don't care -- in your eyes, it discredits me.   Really?   When you turn on the TV in a few weeks and see me, let's see whose in the news and whose relegated to anonymous sniping. Additionally, to your point about all this information not making into my front page Herald story, the reporter knew all about this stuff.   I talked to him about it -- at length and even offered my girlfriend's telly number (who I am still dating by the way).   He passed. In the end, you are doing your job and that's being the quintessential Internet Troll.  So congratulations on a job well done.

• What do you mean, "what's in the water over there"? I thought you knew, oil from the Gulf of Mexico. "Drill douchebag Drill".

• Brian: You Say "Wouldn't Never", and then go on to say you "hate dumb writers"? You sir, are a Moron.

• This is a joke, right?  Are you lefties in Florida completely deranged?  Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Alan Grayson--what is in the water over there???  Hendley--you're a loon.  Thanks for the laugh!

• Oh Irving.  You know my schtick is so much more than that.   You follow me around.  Obsess about me in fact. And never believe what you read in a complaint.   If you'd like, I'll put you in touch with Kel, or if you like, just call me and I'll hand the phone to her. PS My blog is on tap for 600,000 visitors this year -- apparently telling people (like you) they are stupid draws lots of interest.

• That's clearly because you're a moron. You put President in quotes there, dipshit. He is ACTUALLY the President. FYI - Flag on the Moon isn't touching the ground.

• So, tossing poop, tossing pee, telling people they are stupid and bragging about your oaken boner is pretty much your whole schtick?    Yawn.  

• Wait just a frigging, minute here Matthew Hendley!!  You don't like for Allen West to proudly show our United States colors?!?  Colors he served under with a commitment to lay his life down in the nation's defense if necessary??... when YOU are from the party and group (Liberals) who regularly BURN our flag in protest?!?  Matthew Hendley, you are an idiot.  An absolute, 100% raving idiot.

• Wait just a frigging, minute here Matthew Hendley!!  You don't like for Allen West to proudly show our United States colors?!?  Colors he served under with a commitment to lay his life down in the nation's defense if necessary??... when YOU are from the party and group (Liberals) who regularly BURN our flag in protest?!?  Matthew Hendley, you are an idiot.  An absolute, 100% raving idiot.

• Sounds like a whining liberal columnist to me. The 2 persons in this article are more patriotic in their sleep than the idiot who wrote the article. Get a life whiner ............

• Hmm so now your worrying about desecrating the flag. There have been many flag burnings in this country and it was deemed ok, the flag was on the ground and set on fire, in other words DESTROYED, but it's NOT ok to bring the flag under water, get a picture taken the bring the flag BACK above the water to be dried and then more then likely hung back up the flag pole. Tell me if it was an ordinary person who wasn't thinking about running for president would you run this story????  I believe you wouldn't think twice about it, did Obama say anything when the Muslims in this country or any other country threw our flag on the ground stomped on it and then burned it? NO he did not, where were you when that happened? Your paper is nothing more then another tool to try and destroy a possible Presidential hopeful be it  Allen West or Sarah Palin. Stick with the true and relavent stories and stop trying to waste peoples time with useless and hypocritical garbage

• http://americanglob.com/2011/06/14/paper-that-attacked-allen-west-for-scuba-diving-with-the-american-flag-published-story-in-2008-titled-if-bill-ayers-is-a-terrorist-then-so-am-i/

• http://americanglob.com/   New Times - This is what Hypocrisy looks like. 

• http://americanglob.com/   The Pulp - Bill Ayers - This is what Desecration looks like. 

• I wish I personally knew some of you pinko commie lefty nutjobs; a good old fashioned bitch slap would do you some good. The fained outrage coming from the American flag burning left. What a total joke you azzbags are.  

• The Flag Code is NOT Federal law genius, if it were all the lib flag burners would be in jail.

• But this Matthew Hendley POS blogger would have no problem with his Commie buddy's burning it."STFU" Hendley you are a Racist from all the articles you have written about Alan West.You hate all conservatives,especially a black conservative.

• You'd have to man up first, and that's a stretch by anyone's measurement.

• Care to refute other than insults? Like using facts? That's the sign of desperation............lie, smears, disinformation...............and Alinsky's Rule #5. If not.......ignore. "Memorial" flags on sunken ships are perfectly acceptable underwater per military code and old navy tradition. It is seen as the flag always on staff, even on the ship as it sunk. For example, on the USS Speigle Grove. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2734875/posts http://divehappy.com/thailand/diving-on-the-uss-lagarto/

• It has to be violating the flag code first to be unpatriotic.  It's not which I think has been aptly proven. 

• Kindly put down and step away from the crack pipe.

• I believe that would also violate the code, as well as someone's ass.

• Into mind reading are you?

• Notice that you didn't reply to WarDog's posts.

• No. Read closer...........he planted it on the artificial reef. Sheesh!  You guys are really getting desperate.  Do any of you read? "He saluted the American flag while leading a group of veterans on a scuba diving trip off the coast of his Florida district Sunday, Politico reports. West planted the flag underwater in an artificial reef." Read more on Newsmax.com: West Salutes the Flag – Underwater Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!

• This article provides justification to why "Freedom of the Press" is truly a powerful yet dangerous thing. Instead of being respectful of the power you possess you demonstrate what an absolute fool you are. You are endangering your reputation and any respect you may of had by writing such cr@yahoo-NWUI6JH3KWIAFWIWHBZGHPFIN4:disqus p. . .

• are you freaking retarded? 

• You people need to get a life.  As someone else stated, submarines fly American flags all the time and I'm sure some water splashs on it while steaming. That's why nylon flags are made. Clearly the meaning of the law is not that the flag should not EVER touch water (as the flag code also specifies that a flag can be flown in inclement weather as long as it is constructed of all weather material), but that it should not hang down to touch whatever is below it. And, here is something interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56voxid47xA Matthew obviously isn’t a diver, nor does he understand the several ‘atmospheres’ we deal with. (land, Air and Sea) In the normal air breathing atmosphere the Flag shall not touch the ground, water, or anything ‘beneath’ the air… underwater, which is an atmosphere unto itself, the flag is flying and shall not touch the submarine (ship), bottom, or any other object that touches the floor of the lake, sea, or ocean. Rep West broke no law, nor did he disgrace the flag by having it underwater (flying it underwater) … he was flying it properly in another medium (in this case water) and it was not touching the ground, air, or other object attached to the floor of that atmosphere. Has this blogger ever commented on this picture at the bottom?  I've seen it plenty of times and think I've even heard some leftist's say it's "freedom of speech". http://americanglob.com/2011/06/14/paper-that-attacked-allen-west-for-scuba-diving-with-the-american-flag-published-story-in-2008-titled-if-bill-ayers-is-a-terrorist-then-so-am-i/

• Actually Crissa The Navy conducts re-enlistments underwater, complete with the American Flag: http://www.dvidshub.net/image/360361/re-enlistment-underwater-guantanamo-bay So does the Army: http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/okinawa/okinawa-based-soldier-re-enlists-underwater-1.135076 Even the Air Force: http://www.pacaf.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123121210 The Navy "flies" special vinyl underwater flags on many decommissioned ships and reef projects as well including the Arizona memorial at Pearl. The lefties are just mad 'cause it makes them hard to burn...

• Photoshopped?  By who?  Citation?

• Where?  I want to read it!

• Citation?  Poor house?  How?  Do you have priorities?  Because if I recall, the Republicans haven't passed any sort of bills that have any positive effect upon the economy or people's lives.

• What was made up?

• The code says not to fly it in the rain. I think the Navy knows the code.  Do you have evidence of them touching the water with flags?

• Exhibit A) 404 from <i>freerepublic</i>, a wingnut news site. Exhibit B) Image with no context, might as well be staged. Exhibit C) Evidence of a wingnut.

• Flying the flag at night is allowed, if it is illuminated.

• There's a difference between a flag, which is a specific shape and cloth, and an image of the flag or rendering to be reminiscent of it.  This is why flag-motif decorations are not violations of this code.

• You mean, like W Bush did?

• I'm not sure the water was <i>beneath</i> it here.

• Kiss you jihad master today?

• How about the next time we find you burning a flag we shove it up your ass?

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