What Do National Flags Stand For?
Channel: Matt
Date: 15/09/2020

The national flag in America has been a symbol of protest as well as pride, but why? Why not some other object? Would Americans be upset if citizens refused to salute or stand up for the Confederate Flag? What about a new flag designed to promote American police? (September 2020) 

Bonus: NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg (2011): “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world." 

Bonus: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/west-virginia-v.-barnette-the-freedom-to-not-pledge-allegiance 

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us."