Story and photos by Jim Ryan, WBAP 24/7 News
Fort Worth (WBAP) - Cynthia Benton will be the first to tell you that "it's a terrible thing to fly the flag up-side down." But that's exactly what she's doing outside her business along I35-W in far south Fort Worth. "It's warranted in today's environment."
According to the U.S. Senate rules on flag etiquette, "the flag should never be displayed with the union (the blue field) down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." Ms. Benton says the nation's current situation meets the definition.
"We have people in charge now who would actually throw us in jail for refusing to purchase something that they want us to buy," she said. "That being health care."
Her inverted flag also is a protest against -- what she considers -- the administration's lax attitude about terrorism and the growing national debt: "Obviously we could never handle the kind of debt that we're getting into now, which is blossoming under this administration."
Ms. Benton says reaction to her inverted flag has been both positive and negative. She said Tarrant County Republican leaders have applauded her silent protest, but that a woman in the military on Thursday stopped at her business, Cantwell Power Solutions, to express her outrage.
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