C.C. Marin, director of the Independent California Institute, encourages challenges to the custom of American flag supremacy, and urges us just to fly the California flag instead.
“California’s state flag is a powerful symbol of resistance and unity in the face of a cruel, lawless presidential administration,” Marin wrote recently. “Flags remind us who’s in charge. California is not and has never been a subsidiary of the federal government. … Voluntarily flying our own flag below the American flag is literally a symbol of inferiority and compliance.”
Marin suggests that charter cities — which have their own constitutions — take the lead in taking down American flags because they are exempt from flag laws. Special districts — governments that carry out a special duty, like running a hospital — also don’t have to fly the American flag, Marin notes.
By Joe Mathews
