Fox News - A student’s plans to burn an American flag on the LSU campus were cut short Wednesday when thousands of combative counter demonstrators arrived on scene, prompting police to escort the student to safety. Crowds wearing red, white and blue and chanting “U-S-A” threw water balloons and ice at Benjamin Haas, a communication studies graduate student...Haas publicized the event on Facebook and obtained a permit for peaceful protest from the university, according to LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard. But when he found out he also needed a burn permit from the city to set fire to a flag, he decided to read a statement instead – but the rival protesters still would not let up.
I'm in no way condoning burning the flag, it's as stupid a protest as you can do in my opinion (Oh, wow, look at that guy lighting our symbol on fire, lets go hang on his every word! Yea, no thanks.). But that said, if you're going to do it, you just go out and do it. You don't go announcing that shit all over the place, applying for proper permits, getting the administrations permission and then advertising it on Facebook. You just do it.
Kind of hard to take you seriously as a radical social thinker when you went through all the proper bureaucratic channels before taking action. There's nothing rebellious or thought provoking there. Almost seems like you didn't really even want to do it, just wanted the attention.
