Walking on the American Flag is “Art”?!
April 16, 2008 by Jenn Sierra
Filed under News/Op-Ed
We received this info from Lance Dutson, of the Main Web Report. The Maine College Republicans are reporting an incident at the University of Maine Farmington, a public liberal arts college. This was apparently a school-sponsored event. Lance relates the story this way:
These art students did a project where they laid American flags on the floor of the student center for people to walk on. They brought the cops in to protect it, when some College GOP kids and vets came to try to pick them up off the ground. In the video, the university provost actually says ‘It’s just a piece of cloth,’ to the VFW guy, and one of the faculty tells the VFW chief that they are ‘actually protecting’ his freedom of speech by doing this.
This is a disgrace. “Freedom of Speech,” does not include public universities sponsoring the desecration of the American flag and calling it “art”. We understand there may be more video and information available in the upcoming days, and if so, we’ll update this post. Meanwhile, here is some footage of the event, posted by Alex of the Maine College Republicans:
Also see:
- As Maine Goes - University of Main at Farmington Flag Desecration
- Thurber’s Thoughts - A ‘right’ to desecrate the flag?
- ARRA - Walking on the American Flag is Art
- Warner Todd Huston - Minnesota Uni. Puts U.S. Flags on Floor as ‘Art’
- D=S: C’MON… REALLY?
- Stix - Using the US flag in a art exhibit like this is not good
- GraniteRok - Rights, Responsibilities, and Respect - guess which two are ignored in the Academy?
- Leslie Carbonne - Flag Desecration as Art
- Blue Collar Muse - ‘Maine School Turns Flag Desecration into Art’
- TexasFred - Walking on the American Flag is NOT Art!


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[...] not everyone is in agreement on the issue apperantly. Jenn Sierra at forthardknox.com writes “This is a disgrace. ‘Freedom of Speech,’ does not include public universities spo… Actually, it does allow people to desecrate flags. But again, that was not the intent of the [...]
Using the US flag in a art exhibit like this is not good
I really don”t care what your political philosophy is, using the US flag in this manner is very disrespectful to those that fought and died for our freedoms. I am not saying this is illeagl or anything, but it is
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