US Army Veteran Pleads Not Guilty to Burning Flag Near WH

Monday, September 22, 2025

A US Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House ...

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 11:30 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump's recent executive order on flag burning pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal criminal charges. https://to.pbs.org/4nbTbd8

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Sep 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Rich.
Considering Trump is a serial flag dryhumper.
And Sec. of Grrrrrrrr Pickled Pete gets to blow his nose on one.
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#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-20 05:53 AM

I must have read that wrong... he didn't burn a gay guy, right?

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-22 11:56 PM

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Per the charging documents, AUSA Jeanine "Hic" Pirro could not prosecute Jan Carey for burning the American flag because an Executive Order is not a law. The word flag does not appear once in the Information: storage.courtlistener.com

Jan Carey served in the US Army from 1989 to 2012 and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan while Dummkopf Trumpf shirked his patriotic duty in Vietnam by evading the draft thanks to his father arranging a medical deferment over spurious "bone spurs."

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-23 01:05 AM

Not to defend the tiny-fingered, ferret-wearing, cheeto-faced s--tgibbon here, but dodging the draft in Vietnam was actually the patriotic thing to do. We had no business being there.

#4 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-09-23 07:28 AM

One wonders if the principle that will emerge will be, burning a flag is free speech, but lighting a fire on federal property can be charged. But if it is free speech, that free speech right overpowers the point of creating a flame on public property, since no one was at risk.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-09-23 07:39 AM

#4: We had no business in Vietnam is right. Trumpf avoided the war not from patriotism, but a sense of uber-rich entitlement. That makes him an unprincipled hypocrite. The young men who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam left their homes and families out of principle. No one can accuse them of being hypocrites.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-23 07:48 AM

Someone tell Cankles ---------- that EO's are binding on executive branch employees and departments only.

Either way he wins. He prosecutes this veteran over legally protected free speech and if he loses, his moron base gets to go ape --- over the ruling and then he can whine about how unfair the courts are.

It's all bread and circuses at this point.

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-23 08:52 AM

Nixon, where's the bread?

#8 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-09-23 01:44 PM

#4 | Posted by DarkVader

While you may be correct, none of that rationality existed in Dump's brain at the time...(or, even now, for that matter)

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-23 05:16 PM

"It's all urine and feces at this point."

FTFY.

#10 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-23 05:22 PM

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