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I agree, they should use the Australian flag, with the traditional boot kicking a bare arse.

Second point: Congress *regulates* interstate commerce; it does not participate. Else it would be able to kill-off Ford, Microsoft, and Panasonic, and build cars, computers, and TVs directly. The U.S. has not been granted that power to DO interstate commerce - only to regulate it.

But the federal government does participate - and - historically - has done so often quite openly:

Passenger Ships Owned by the United States Government, U.S. Shipping Board

The most familiar example would be the Tennessee Valley Authority

If Mexico or Canada invaded[1] the USA

Canada has a navy! and Mexico has an army!

You can practice here: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb%7Dnaz.html

Seriously, do you take yourself serious? The nazi ideology is death. It has been death since 1945. Those people who're still calling themselves nazies are just morons. They could be part of a modern day group of mass murderers (plenty of these still availabe in many parts of the world) instead they waste their time with ideology-necrophilia.

Perhaps they should have been deported to the Russia. The historic record shows "MLN" as a Soviet army. They even modeled their goals after Fidel Castro's conquest of Cuba on behalf of the USSR. If that is not a declaration of ill intent, what is? Already, by this point, the USSR was engaged in aggression against Uruguay. The MLN to replace the existing government with Soviet rule.

Yes, there are 12 years of lost time. None of this would have happened had the Soviets not created the "MLN" and brought Uruguay's national sovereignty into jeopardy. You can sure thank the SOA that they helped Uruguay keep the MLN from turning it into another Cuba. I see you are apparently writing from Uruguay. Cubans are banned from participating in such open discussion on the Internet. If the "MLN" had prevailed in the 1960s or 1970s, you'd be in prison for daring to use /.

This is the flag (http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/c/cn.gif/) that will be painted on the side of the next manned mission to the Moon:

It's the flag of bremen.

Isn't that the Libyan flag?

This precedent of nations enforcing their laws outside their juristictions, is the fault of Israel, the US, France, Spain, Belgium & China, & is spreading, even Australia is getting in on the act. Meaning we are now expected to comply with every law of every country on the planet no matter where we are. This syndrome must stop. AFAIC the only laws that should be enforced extra-territorilly are the traditional laws of piracy on the high seas & treason.

There are many examples of this:

The US demanding the extradiction of Columbian & Burmese drug lords for acts committed while they were outside of US juristiction & thus under no compulsion to comply with US laws.

Israel prosecuting a German with Latin American citizenship for war crimes that happened in Europe against people that weren't even Israelis & weren't even nationals of that bit of the planet that ended up becoming Israel.

Belgium prosecuting a Israeli for contravening Belium warcrimes laws in Lebanon

Spain prosecuting Pinochet for acts commited against Spainards outside of Spain. The simple fact is once one becomes an expat one no longer has the protection of their country of citizenship & one must instead accept the protection of their host nation. If a expat doesn't like that they should go home. If Spain doesn't like the fact that Spainish expats in Chile were killed by the Pinochet regime then Spain should use diplomatic avenues, such as a trade embargo, to persuade Chile to prosecute Pinochete. No matter how distastefull it is, the killing of Spainards outside of Spain's juristiction is no concern of the Spainish law courts. If worse comes to the worst & the Chilian justice system refuses to do its duty, the Spanish secret service anti-ETA death squad could be resurrected to target the token Chilian bigwig & a message sent suggesting that the offsprings of Chilan bigwigs could come next.

About 5 years ago or something a freighter from some Arab country smuggled a ship load of hashish to just off Oz's 200 mile economic line where the hashish was loaded onto some waiting Oz yachts & brought ashore. Well the Feds were waiting & cought the Yachties hashed up to the nines. After the freighter unloaded its cargo it headed to New Caledonia, where Oz feds were waiting with extradition warrents. I assume the New Caledonians played along because it's dependent on Oz in many ways, plus the French habitually enforce their laws extra-territorily anyway. So the Arab seamen ended up in a Australian court where the judge promptly threw out the case. He stated that even though they were definitly smuggling hash to Oz, as they never entered Oz juristiction while they were smuggling the hash to Oz, the seamen were under no obligation to comply with Oz laws. IMAO that's a top judge.

Well recently, as in the last year or so, Australia succesfully applied for the extradition of a Yemani people smuggler from Indonesia, who they have prosecuted for breaking Australian people smuggling laws (smuggling Afghans 'n Kurds here) even though he has never been within Oz juristiction & thus IMAO has never been under any obligation to comply with Oz laws.

Now the reason I don't like these concepts is because it sets precedents that's directly responsable for China arresting tourists & business travellers from overseas & throwing them in jail, simply for Besmirching the Reputation of China in foreign publications. You see public attacks on China's reputation are illegal in China. Also under Chinese laws all Chinese are considered within Chinese juristiction no matter where they are on the planet. Ontop of which China does not recognise the right of Chinese to renounce their citizenship. Meaning if say a Chinese person becomes an American & decides he doesn't want to be a dual citizen, & renounces his Chinese citizenship, China won't recognise it & as far as they are concerned he's still Chinese (albit maybe also American too) & still must comply with Chinese laws while in the US (or anywhere else for that matter). This even goes further, if someone has Chinese ancestry (no matter how distant), China reserves the right to consider that person Chinese & thus as far as they're concerned, obliged to comply with Chinese laws, even if that person has never been to China.

This has led to many citizens of the West being arrested while in China on Businees or on holidays, for previously criticising China in western publications & particularly of late, on the web. IMAO the only way the world could stop such incidents is by an international treaty strictly regulating the limits of territorial juristiction. & no matter how much lawyers hate it, this treaty must be so clear & unambiguous that nothing is open to interpritation, no matter how inflexible it is & what the costs are in that regard. If it means people are free to kill each other on unregisted vessels in international waters, then so be it.

The only thing I'd consider is extra-territorial enviromental laws, for example where nations have the right to enforce their enviromental laws on whatever international waters are closer to them than other countries, as long as they don't descriminate in favour of their own nationals in those waters tat are outside of their 12 mile territorial or 200 mile economic zone. The world's oceans are being fished out 7 times faster than they can be replenished, this has to stop. We don't want our oceans to end up as sterile as the North Atlantic cod fisheries.

For a new symbol:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pea-cnd.gif

Make War Not Love!

There's a brief history of the symbol which says that "the most common proportions [of the arms] are 3:5" (though not why.)