Time: Mon Dec 15 19:45:06 1997 To: tim_mccrory@bigfoot.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Military flags???? (fwd) Cc: Bcc: sls, friends References: Forward this to Becraft, please. /s/ Paul Mitchell, Candidate for Congress http://supremelaw.com At 07:29 PM 12/15/97 -0800, you wrote: >The following was e-mailed to me. Might want to check out: > >In 1959, as President, Dwight David Eisenhower, by Executive Order No. >10834, August 21, 1959 and in the Federal Register at 24 F.R. 6865, and >pursuant to law, stated that: "A military flag is a flag that resembles >the regular flag of the United States, except that it has a Yellow >Fringe border on three sides." > According to Army Regulations, (AR 840-10, Oct. 1, 1979.) "the Flag is >trimmed on three sides with Fringe of Gold, 2 1/2 inches wide," and >that, "such flags are flown indoors, ONLY in military courtrooms." And >that the Gold Fringed Flag is not to be carried by anyone except units >of the United States Army, and the United States Army division >associations." > The gold-fringed flag flies in military courts that sit in summary >court martial proceedings against civilians and such courts are governed >in part by local rules, but more especially by "The Manual of Courts >Martial", U.S., 1994 Ed., at Art. 99, (c)(1)(b), pg. IV-34, PIN >030567-0000, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash. D.C. The details of >the crimes that civilians can commit, that are classed as 'Acts of War,' >cover 125 pages in the Manual of Courts Martial. >-- >/s/ Timothy I. McCrory >Web Site - Kay County Patriots >http://idt.net/~tmccrory/ > >"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. >In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains >seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all >must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - >lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." >Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas > >
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