" Dire Distress"

Last week, a lady named Debbie Anthony appeared on the news. She had some complaints from her neighbors. It seems Ms. Anthony was flying an American flag upside down, and her neighbors took offense. They felt it was disrespectful to our flag. I understand her neighbors' feelings, as I am a regular flag flier myself. When Ms. Anthony was interviewed, she said she had been flying the flag in this manner for about six months as a protest to the way our country was being governed.

The nautical reason for flying the flag upside down is "...a signal of dire distress of life and property...", an emergency situation.

As I researched this story, I found several other recent incidents of other Americans doing the same thing for the same reasons as Ms. Anthony. I find this interesting. All those who have entered into this unusual protest are average, normal, everyday Americans. None are of the radical ilk, they are just plain tax-payers; plain folks, with plain common sense and concern for the direction America has turned toward. Extreme spending, high unemployment, weak defense, and a disregard for the peoples' will are consistant in all of the interviews I read. Arrogance of office holders is also a common complaint. Fear that America is bound for destruction seems to be the base of it all.

Common sense from common people; the kind of people who have carried America on their backs since its' inception; the kind of people who don't protest at the drop of a hat, quiet, law abiding citizens. They see the handwriting on the wall as this current administration continues on a path toward fiscal destruction. Soon our debt will surpass our productivity; then our fate will be sealed.

"A signal of dire distress in extreme danger of life and property", sounds like the situation we are in alright. I wonder if Mr. Obama and his minions have the common sense of the "common" people? Soon we may all have to fly our flags upside down.