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The City of Gallatin is considering whether or not to create legislation to restrict the flying of the American flags by local businesses.  Seems some folks think that some area business owners go overboard by hanging too many flags.

Let’s pause right here to point out that for somebody in Gallatin… some muckity-muck big-wig… the most important concern–the most pressing issue of urgency on which the city needs to act–is too many American flags.  Not homelessness.  Not poverty.  Not roadwork or crime.  But too many American flags being flown. This is right up there on the Smartness Scale with giving drunks advanced warning of where the sobriety checkpoints will be.

Wonderful.  Gallatin, you have got to back off this idea immediately.  There are few things you can do to come off as more anti-American than to go around telling people not to fly the country’s flag.

If some local dude wants to go a little bit overboard on his patriotism, then just… let it go.  Let him do his thing.  There are so many worse things he could be going overboard on, you know?

Who is the city official driving past that business every day saying, “Arrgh!  I cannot stand to see so many American flags at once!!  Oh the humanity!! Make it stop!!”???  I’ll tell you who:  a person with a grudge.  This is as clear a case as I’ve ever seen of personality conflicts leading to city political clashes.  Some business owner doesn’t like some other business owner, and they’re trying to hurt them by complaining about flag flying.  What is this, middle school?!

It makes me want to litter the yard of my home with American flags, every freaking square inch… so you can’t even see the grass for all the stars and stripes.  Remember, Gallatin, some of us are currently in the midst of a swell of patriotic pride right now.  Just.  Walk.  Away.