In today's NYT:

GENOA, Ill. — Jim Harris expected vandalism, angry calls, maybe even a violent attack.

Outside his old farmhouse, he had erected an upside-down American flag, a military signal of dire distress, and scrawled two big signs deploring President Obama’s re-election: “No Hope” and “Enslaved by the 47 Percent.”

He figured the display would incite some passers-by on his country road here in the cornfields of DeKalb County…

(snip)

He said he planned to leave his upside-down flag hanging for the next four years. “In fact, I’m planning to get a bigger one,” he said.

But so far, it has not been the lightning rod he anticipated. The flag has elicited an exasperated shrug from his eldest daughter, Ashley, 25, he said, but not much else.

http://www.nytimes.c....html?ref=us&_r=0

Does anyone else get the sense that the guy was kinda hoping he'd have the opportunity to assert his god-given rights of self-defense under the Second Amendment had some "taker" bent on vandalism or a "violent attack" been incautious enough to trespass? Poor fellow. Maybe the bigger flag will do the trick.

cordially,