{"id":1768356,"date":"2022-12-08T19:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768356"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:03:56","slug":"disabled-vet-congressman-torches-colleague-for-putting-american-flag-in-trash-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disabled-vet-congressman-torches-colleague-for-putting-american-flag-in-trash-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled Vet Congressman Torches Colleague For Putting American Flag In Trash Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisabled-vet-congressman-torches-colleague-for-putting-american-flag-in-trash-can%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768356&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Disabled veteran Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) took issue with fellow Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-sheila-jackson-lee-claims-that-biden-did-not-really-make-bigoted-you-aint-black-remark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheila Jackson Lee<\/a>\u00a0(D-TX) over the way she chose to transport her American flag while she was moving from one office to another.<\/p>\n<p>Mast, who lost both legs and his left index finger in 2010 when he stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) while clearing a path for the Army Rangers in Kandahar, Afghanistan \u2014 was clearly unimpressed when he saw that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/report-rep-sheila-jackson-lee-retaliated-against-emily-zanotti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jackson Lee<\/a> had placed a rolled up American flag in a trash can in the hallway with instructions detailing where it was to be moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s rescue mission: saving Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee\u2019s American flag from the garbage can,\u201d Mast tweeted a photo of the offending trash can along with a short video. \u201c@JacksonLeeTX18, anytime you\u2019d like a lesson on flag etiquette, let me know. It\u2019s one of the first things we\u2019re taught in basic training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s rescue mission: saving Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee\u2019s American flag from the garbage can. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacksonLeeTX18?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JacksonLeeTX18<\/a>, anytime you\u2019d like a lesson on flag etiquette, let me know. It\u2019s one of the first things we\u2019re taught in basic training. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZljLi41GA\">pic.twitter.com\/dZljLi41GA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Brian Mast (@RepBrianMast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBrianMast\/status\/1600966553281105920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this is a W-T-F moment here in the House of Representatives,\u201d Mast began, adding, \u201cPeople moving offices and this is apparently where Representative Sheila Jackson Lee keeps her American flag, her POW flag, in the garbage can, in the trash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mast panned the camera to show the trash can in the hallway, clearly labeled with a sign saying where it was to be moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s her idea of appropriate for moving the American flag. WTF. What the \u2014 what the hell is wrong with these people?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics quickly pointed out that Jackson Lee was only moving the flag and did not likely mean for it to remain in the trash can, but Mast himself acknowledged that \u2014 and his argument appeared to simply be that even just transporting a flag in a trash can was disrespectful.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title4-chapter1&#038;saved=%7CZ3JhbnVsZWlkOlVTQy1wcmVsaW0tdGl0bGU0LXNlY3Rpb244%7C%7C%7C0%7Cfalse%7Cprelim&#038;edition=prelim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Flag Code<\/a> (4 U.S. Code Ch. 1), Mast makes a reasonable point:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a78 (b) \u201cThe flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.\u201d\u00a78 (e) \u201cThe flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disabled veteran Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) took issue with fellow Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee\u00a0(D-TX) over the way she chose to transport her American flag while she was moving from one office to another. Mast, who lost both legs and his left index finger in 2010 when he stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) while &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1890646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4123,6868,5408,6202,6863,6867,6864,6865,6862,6866,6195],"class_list":["post-1768356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-american","tag-colleague","tag-congressman","tag-daily","tag-disabled","tag-flag","tag-putting","tag-torches","tag-trash","tag-vet","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}