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Good is now bad. everything that is bad is now good. everything is upside down in america, especially in the state of california. so, if you wear an american flag shirt to school you are kicked out. like you just did the story of the young girl who drew an american flag, god bless america, out. crosses mojave desert to honor the war dead, out. you sit and put something in for another religious belief, islamic whatever, people go nuts. >> sean: do you agree? >> it goes back to the things we've been looking at in america. don't forget the context. there was a lawsuit to remove it, it was unsucce...

The supreme court is coming down on the side of some long long dead veterans. when it comes to a war memorial in the mojave desert. the aclu sued to have this cross taken down in the desert. it was put up by some world war i vets back in the 1930s to honor the fallen. the aclu complained saying the cross is on federal land alleging it represents a violation of the separation of church and state. last september i asked about replacing the cross with a non-religious symbol. >> that cross was put there in 1934 by world war i veterans. that's what they chose. that was their choice, and they put it...

Argue that they've got the right to peaceably assemble to bury their son in a private service. >> the issue of free speech, i know when you talk about burning the flag for example, i think clarence thomas, a man of the right, doesn't think that should be protected. because it's inciteful, it has a whole history. i'm not -- burning crosses, the whole historic way of white southerners, when they used to repress black people, to use it as a tool. and he argued that isn't speech, it was something much more violent. >> this is so far outside the bounds of human decency. i won't claim to be a first ...

Time of loss, the family of our war dead, that i think that is only going to create even more sympathy for gay rights groups by showing people who oppose that to look like haters, to look like people with no compassion or empathy at all with no fellow feelings. so i don't know the law. i would suspect that they both have protections. the family has a right to worship and to have this funeral in private but the protesters probably somewhere nearby have the right to express themselves. >> who are these people, michael, that would -- you saw the sign, fag nation, the hatred behind that sign. i do...

On the mall saturday night. there was some concern from veterans about their own benefits being cut during the shutdown. however most of the thought was being given to vets who couldn't be there and their families. >> there is no place to go past america. they shut these things down and if the veterans are quiet, the last bastion of americanism that this country has. this place goes to the ash heap of history. do not let that happen. it rests on you. civil disobedience, no violence. do it right. do it smart. >> these are open-air memorials, very little cost if any to the federal government. th...