National flags have certainly been dragged through mud and blood by psychopaths in positions of power. However, I would maintain that no matter how much TPTSB trample on any flag while making a pretense of revering “what it stands for”, they and their governments nonetheless do not acquire the right or power to define it for everyone else, for all time.

Such symbols are powerful in the human mind because they can encode a sense of identity and a set of ideals which each individual has independently assigned over the course of a lifetime.

When I see the American flag, what comes to my mind is a set of ideals which so far have NEVER been realized. I could, I suppose, see it as a symbol all that’s wicked about the government which waves it around and uses it as a war banner. I choose not to, but that’s just me.

Being feminist before CIA and the Rockefellers funded the movement was genuine resistance, then it became collaboration. Being anti-nationalist in nowadays China is resistance, but being anti-nationalist along with Merkel in the European Union is collaboration IMHO, it serves more their agenda than ours.

have a good weekend. and god bless america!

“unlike some who call themselves no-government men, i ask for, not at once no state government, but at once a better government. let every man make known what kind of government that would command his respect and that will be one step towards attaining it.”

-henry david thoreau, civil disobedience

Back in 1971, I was the only student in my high school class of 720 students who remained seated during the national anthem and pledge of allegiance. It was a feeble and ineffective attempt to protest the Viet Nam War. I did go to one professional basketball game about five years ago in which a few returning veterans (from Iraq/Afghanistan) were honored at halftime. The crowd gave them a standing ovation, though perhaps the majority in that crowd would do everything in their power to keep their own kids out of the military, but mindlessly cheered the returning “heroes” (i.e., kids) of other parents who were involved at some level or another in the maiming, murdering, traumatizing, and senseless wars. Flags and states and militarism seem to arouse the most passionate and mindless group-think responses in people, and it all begins at an early age.

Obviously, I am completely on board with what James said in this short podcast, yet Al Saleh’s comments muddy the waters when people of a country are simply living their lives and along comes American empire.
Since the Syrians are victims of American hegemony and are a vast underdog against a militaristic bully that can and does use its military power to kill, maim, and traumatize people throughout the world, rallying around the flag of Syria, though not ideal, is certainly an understandable response at this point in time. I really don’t know what else they can do, and I can certainly see myself responding similarly if I were in their situation. Sometimes the ideal is not possible when encountering the real.

I realize that the NWO is group-think and state-think amplified exponentially. I suspect that when the SHTF here in the U.S. and Americans are traumatized to an unprecedented degree, the great majority will succumb to “correct” beliefs, thoughts, speech, and actions so that the trauma is mitigated and some form of normalcy can re-emerge from the chaos. NO dissent will be allowed and, sadly, citizens will gladly rat each other out in order to keep whatever the new state allows them to have. And the new state, the NWO, will be worshipped as zealously, if not more so, than any country’s flags and other symbols ever have.

Finally, the symbols run so incredibly deep in the blood of people that it truly is religion at its worst. One is really not allowed to question the symbols or protest against what they stand for. I once read that people do not come to their religious beliefs rationally nor do most set aside their religious beliefs rationally. This begs the question: How, then, can people be set free from the religious beliefs of state-ism if they/we cannot be approached rationally? The powers most definitely known what they are doing!

Although I don’t worship Assad or his government or his state, I frequently quote the following passage from his speech:

“The aggression we face is not aimed at individuals or governments – as it appeared to some in the beginning, but rather at the structure of the country and its role, and conditioning the way people think in the long-term, to mere cattle driven by remote control.”

http://www.sana.sy/en/?p=6859

(the official translation does not convey the exact meaning of what he said)

Our (mine and yours) enemies are well organized, and to fight them effectively we need some type of organization. Organization is not slavery or worshiping. It is just organization.

I admire your thoughts and your experience, and I hope you would think about solution to fight a military invasion, and share your thoughts in a podcast.