Real American Hero
Maybe everybody’s seen this already, but I hadn’t until a friend sent me the video.
It suppose it might be better if this Great American didn’t look so much like the Aryan Brotherhood white supremacists I saw on a National Geographic documentary the other night. But let’s judge actions, not looks.
I must have been sleeping. Allahpundit and everyone else had this weeks and weeks ago.
But he’s still reaping benefits:
Veterans who served on the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier presented Jim Brossard with a certificate and flag for cutting down a U.S. flag that was flying beneath a Mexican flag at a Reno bar.
“To fly the American flag underneath the Mexican flag, it just defies everything,” said Wayne Erven, West Coast representative of the U.S.S. Intrepid Association Inc. “Our flag goes on top. That’s the honor we give our flag.”
…“To go and pull that down, you’ve got more guts than brains maybe,” Erven told Brossard.
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Brossard said that he has no regrets.
“If I hadn’t done that, then I’m afraid it wouldn’t have gotten done,” he said. “I was ready and fully willing to accept any consequences, legally or any other, that might have come in my direction.”
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Broussard said he received hundreds of phone calls from people around the country who thanked him.
And at least one from someone who didn’t.
Bob Fulkerson, state director for the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, said Brossard does not deserve to be rewarded for stealing property.
“I think what they’re doing is rewarding criminal behavior, and they’re rewarding violent behavior,” Fulkerson said. “To me, that goes against our Constitution. That goes against the values of our country.”
I know, isn’t it grand?