Caleb Maupin: US flag no longer represents citizens
I think what people in the Occupy movement mean when they burn the US flag is that they are saying that flag no longer and probably never did represent them.
It represents the US government which is a tool of the corporations and of the bankers and that they are rejecting it and they are saying; we are burning this flag because it no longer represents what we stand for. And they are saying rather we need to create our own institutions and our own society and we reject the society this flag stands for, which talks about freedom and then when we pour out in the streets and try to use that freedom, clubs us, maces us, and attacks us. You know, there is so much talk in the media right now that they are saying that the occupiers did not have the right to be in Zuccotti Park. But I disagree, because if you look at Zuccotti Park, every stone in Zuccotti Park was laid by mason workers, all of the iron handles were cast by iron workers, sanitation workers clean that park but Brookfield Properties a corporation that owns Zuccotti Park had nothing to do with it but the fact that they owned it and that is a real example of how every thing works in the United States. The 99 percent, the working class creates everything, but a small group does nothing but owns it. And we are trying to overcome that and as a movement where we are trying to get beyond the capitalist system, where 1 percent owns and the rest creates and gets nothing but a small bit of wages in exchange.