Opinion: Just keep your feet off that “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” flag

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The San Francisco State University flag-stomping brouhaha has come to its stunning anti-climax. Late last year, SF State College Republicans had global terrorism on the ropes with an ‘anti-terrorism rally’ in which participants stepped on the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah. But just as the forces of international jihad were ready to give up in the face of this relentless campaign of taunting, a campus students association condemned the Repubs and threatened to get the group’s official campus recognition yanked. In the perpetually aggrieved SFSU style, double secret probation and a blue-ribbon-panel investigation followed. Now the flag stompers have been cleared. Depending on how you look at it, this is either a defeat or a victory for those once-maligned, now-triumphant ‘San Francisco values:’ although the countries where flag-desecration is allowed are A-OK, the ones where it’s actually popular tend to be strictly Grade Z.