Flag Burner Pilloried by Veterans
http://www.military.com/news/article/flag-burner-pilloried-by-veterans.html
This is a great story to read which will show you how justice should be handled sometime within the community. I think Valley Falls may be on to something here.
This is a red, white and blue village that is still seeing red after a flag that flew over Iraq was burned by a 21-year-old.
The payback? He was publicly humiliated last Sunday by being duct-taped to the flagpole of Veterans of Foreign War 1938 say he desecrated Sept. 18.
The bottom line is that the VFW post witnessed an infraction against their property, so they enacted a punishment that they felt was just and fair.
The 21-year-old appeared intoxicated when he entered the VFW post on the day of the alleged act, Normile said. When the man was refused service for not having a proper ID, he ran out in a fit of anger. He cut the rope of the flag, which had once flown over troops in Iraq, and ignited it with a cigarette lighter.
Two days later, Normile said the man was forced to sit in the sun pilloried for six hours as townspeople gathered across the street for a youth soccer picnic. A sign was hung around his neck detailing what he had done. It recalled the Middle Ages punishment, subjecting him to public humiliation and scorn.
"He’ll never disrespect the flag again, I can tell you that," Normile said on Friday.
And apparently the local police don’t see a problem with the way the VFW handled the situation either.
State troopers and Rensselaer County sheriffs deputies said no charges had been filed by either the VFW post or the man
