Comments on: Walking on the American Flag is “Art”?!

By: Jenn Sierra

Jenn Sierra — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:25:15 +0000

David, as a wise person once said, it’s important to be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

We need words, terms, labels, and symbols in order to communicate effectively – otherwise, we’d all just be jabbering on endlessly about whatever pops into our heads with no real connection to reality, past, present or future.

In this case, the symbol of the flag obviously does mean something – if it didn’t, then what would be the purpose of putting it on the floor to see if people will walk on it or not?!

No one’s advocating here for the government to tell us we “can’t” walk on the flag – but we’d very much appreciate it if our educational institutions weren’t using our taxpayer dollars to encourage students to disrespect the freedoms so many have fought and died for.

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:13:28 +0000

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this personally. Why should a sequence of colors and shapes be what a country stands behind rather than the freedoms of the people?

I wouldn’t call it art necessarily but a statement. It tells a lot when you’d rather have the government tell us we “can’t” do something that doesn’t affect anybody in any way. Is this hurting you in some way? A flag is just a symbol just like money or any other symbol that could be used to identify a country.

I’m not a leftist, in fact, I’m totally against the terms “right” and “left” to describe ways of thinking. Why should we be promoting the segregation of political groups? Shouldn’t we be coming together as a whole to make educated decisions rather than making biased decisions based on what party a candidate is classified under?

By: booboothebear

booboothebear — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:36:48 +0000

well im a student at umf, and i totally agree with every one that it was a disgrace, calls for the resignation for our president and vice president came from alot of us, and many students were very upset, this as not the only act like this that happened, its just the one that got the most publicity, and btw, there is a youtube video that if you haven’t seen it you should, it shows and tell alot about what our president and vice president of the university is like go watch it.

By: Mary in Florida

Mary in Florida — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:04:41 +0000

This is a disgrace !!!! For a public university to sponsor this event is almost worse. What was this art (?) suppose to accomplish, what was achieved? Just some low life un-American statement that pushes our freedom to the limits. People can keep their freedom of speech, and also have respect. Their is a major difference. This isn’t freedom of speech, this is blatant disrespect. It simply serves no purpose.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:20:35 +0000

These “art” students should hold the symbol of their ability to do such stupid disrespectful acts in a higher regard. Next time there’s a war – I say send in the art students – but first wrap their asses in an arabic flag – let’s just see how they value freedom then !!!!

By: Aliza Shvarts and All that Art Stuff

Aliza Shvarts and All that Art Stuff — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:31:55 +0000

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By: forthardknox

forthardknox — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:59:29 +0000

Thanks, Fred…we’ve added you to the list.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:16:23 +0000

I have a post up on this too, the more folks that get it out there, the better!! TexasFred’s » Blog Archive » Walking on the American Flag is NOT Art!

By: Stix Blog

Stix Blog — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:57:19 +0000

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

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:11:26 +0000

Remember the students at some California school that (almost) got in trouble because they walked on some Muslim flag that had Allah in Arabic on it?

Let’s put that flag down on the floor with the American flag and see if these leftists call it art or hate speech.

By: Controversy Over Flag Display at UMF

Controversy Over Flag Display at UMF — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:03:17 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Roy Jones

Roy Jones — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:49:52 +0000

Nothing like this would every happen at Liberty University. As a matter of fact, any soldier wounded fighting the War on Terrorism can apply for a full scholarship. We have nearly 60 wounded veterans and 2 surviving spouses of vets killed in Iraq studying at LU in Lynchburg, VA today. GOD BLESS THE SOLDIERS DEFENDING FREEDOM AND GOD BLESS THE USA!
Roy Jones