| Hey Thanks Bubba.
You are correct, there is nothing wrong with calling out someone that is making derogatory comments about something that you hold dear to your heart. Where the line is crossed is when the response then takes the rights of the other person away. Much like a person screaming at you and you punch them in the face. The line was crossed when the person's face impacted your fist.
What I was addressing was the unlawful reaction to insult of the original decal on the car. Also, the tone becomes nothing less than standing outside the jailhouse (parked car) and the group stirring up talk of a public lynching (shin kicking, car keying and a$$ abuse). But what makes you assume that the person displaying the decal is in this country illegally. Because they are Hispanic looking? What about those people that look Italian? How about that Eva Longoria? She looks Hispanic and she is an American.
I am old enough to remember many Americans displaying symbols defying America in the 60's and 70's, and they met the long handle of a few axe handles and police batons (Chicago Eight), but that didn't make it right even then.
Hmmm, I wonder what would have happened if the Native American Indians had put up a 700 mile fence around Kansas . . .
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