As Michelle Malkin has been reporting on her site for days now, President-elect Obama’s supporters have been engaging in widespread acts of unlawfulness in the form of distributing and displaying United States flags that have been defaced with images of the President-elect.

What is eerie is that even as Obama concludes the pilgrimage to D.C., draped in the mantle of Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, these flags could just be one more example of Obama’s lack of originality.  Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential campaign also used flags adorned with the candidates image and emblazoned with campaign propaganda (The example shown here comes from the Library of Congress.)  The U.S. Flag Code would not be enacted until 1923, so Lincoln-Davis’ use of Old Glory was not illegal.

When we begin picking and choosing which laws matter and which do not, the rule of law breaks down.  Don’t expect too much action from the Obama camp, however, after all of the clever image manipulation they employed during the campaign.

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