Okay, I knew Berkeley was a bit out of the mainstream, but today I read on the net that after the attack, the Berkeley fire department took the American flag emblem OFF the trucks! Now they are debating whether to put them back on. They say essentially, "Well, we might have to go to a fire where there are war protesters, and the flag might incite them to attack a fireman or a truck." I couldn't believe this when New York firemen were dying trying to save some of the thousands killed in the attack. This is a total disgrace and shows the fire department to be run by a bunch of cowards. I don't want to take cheap shots at Berkeley, but this is not a bunch of protesters, but is the fire department. So I don't think this is a cheap shot, but the citizens of Berkeley should see that a lot of people lose their jobs over this. But I suspect they won't. Perhaps the Berkeley fire department could loan a few guys to New York to relay how bad this really is.


And I'm not one of the people who thinks we need a flag-burning constitutional amendment.