The problem with this kid's protest is not that he has logic problems or even his intent. His problem is that his intent is lost, and therefore meaningless, in the din of people calling him an unpatriotic idiot.
It's fun to be an angry young man, as Billy Joel refered to his youger self, but anything you say or do is observed negatively in that light. This young man's point would be better served, in my opinion, by standing for the pledge, getting a hair cut (oh, there I go jumping to conclusions), and THEN writing his well-written manifesto about the lousy state of the greatest country on earth, the one that gives him the right to sit for the pledge in the first-place.

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