{"id":18265,"date":"2010-03-29T05:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T12:15:30","slug":"agosto-retracts-flag-burning-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18265","title":{"rendered":"Agosto retracts flag-burning statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IVAW's Matthis Chiroux, Robyn Murray and MFSO's Elaine Brower burn the US flag "This is not my country!"<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The other day, I wrote about Victor Agosto’s statement <\/a>supporting Matthis Chiroux’s flag burning drama at the ANSWER protest in DC last weekend. That statement has disappeared from the IVAW websit and today, he half-heartedly rethinks his support<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The flag represents a primary instrument of class oppression, but I’m prepared to concede that burning it may not be in the best interests of building a broad-based movement. I condemn all threats against the flag burners, and I support their right to express their anger at a government that has failed them. I will not publicly burn a flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Class oppression, huh? Which class is being oppressed? The idiot class? Apparently, there are dissenting voices at work inside IVAW. Another opinion piece by Valerie Fletche<\/a>r chastises IVAW leadership for their wishy-washy stance on the issue;<\/p>\n

Executive Director Jose Vasquez\u2019s remark that \u201cThis action was viewed by some as putting our ability to reach service members and veterans in grave jeopardy\u2026\u201d is a huge understatement. If IVAW accepts this behavior or condones it, the organizations tent will have become so small I believe it will be in danger of creating its own state of irrelevance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, the International Socialist Movement-affiliated IVAW members vastly underestimated the reaction from the more moderate membership who have no political agenda beyond ending the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I wrote about Victor Agosto’s statement supporting Matthis Chiroux’s flag burning drama at … Agosto retracts flag-burning statement<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}