{"id":11655,"date":"2016-06-08T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2016-06-08T00:18:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T07:18:30","slug":"burn-a-rainbow-flag-get-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/06\/08\/burn-a-rainbow-flag-get-prosecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn A Rainbow Flag, Get Prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A transsexual student at the University of British Columbia is being prosecuted for&#8230; burning a &#8220;Gay rights&#8221; rainbow flag.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The flag was burned as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyxtra.com\/vancouver\/news-and-ideas\/news\/accused-in-ubc-pride-flag-burning-asks-court-drop-charge-191281\" target=\"_blank\">protest<\/a> against the Politically Correct modern LGBTQ&amp;c. activists:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s passive-aggressive control over the university,&#8217; &#8230;[Fink] says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;The university surrendered our flag to the gay power flag.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;UBC earned the right to fly its own flag, &#8230;[Fink] says. It has meaning and history. To replace it with a rainbow flag created in San Francisco \u2014 what&#8217;s next? &#8230;[Fink] asks. An anti-choice flag? An ISIS flag?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11656\" title=\"Burning Rainbow Flag\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Burning-Rainbow-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Burning-Rainbow-Flag.jpg 638w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Burning-Rainbow-Flag-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One must remember that Canada is a land that is full of censorship-crazed bureaucrats and free-speech hating judges.\u00a0 The perpetrator, Brooklyn Marie Fink, is <em>only<\/em> being charged with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/blog\/transsexual-student-charged-mischief-burning-gay-pride-flag-protest-lgbt-identity-politics\" target=\"_blank\">mischief under $5,000<\/a>&#8221; rather than a <a href=\"http:\/\/equity.ubc.ca\/2016\/02\/09\/ubc-response-to-rainbow-flag-burning-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\">hate crime<\/a> like the University of British Columbia originally wanted, perhaps due to &#8220;some&#8230; being more equal than others&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazingcatfur.ca\/2016\/04\/30\/transsexual-student-charged-with-mischief-for-burning-gay-pride-flag-as-protest-against-political-correctness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blazing Cat Fur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Burn A Rainbow Flag, Get Prosecuted\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A transsexual student at the University of British Columbia is being prosecuted for... burning a 'Gay rights' rainbow flag.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Burning-Rainbow-Flag.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A transsexual student at the University of British Columbia is being prosecuted for&#8230; burning a &#8220;Gay rights&#8221; rainbow flag. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The flag was burned as a protest against the Politically Correct modern LGBTQ&amp;c. activists: &#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s passive-aggressive control over the university,&#8217; &#8230;[Fink] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/06\/08\/burn-a-rainbow-flag-get-prosecuted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24,48],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18177,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions\/18177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}