Jay Janson (2019): “Americans who flinch at the sight of their nation’s flag, never forgot the rage in the voice of former President Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during TV news bites of him shouting, his finger pointing to heaven, “God bless America? No, no! God damn America for her crimes against humanity,” and never forgot the snide smiles and head shaking of the criminal media news commentators following the sound bite… The pop, bang and swish of 4th of July fireworks will be reminding the few peace loving Americans of the sound of mortars and the words of American film maker Michael Moore,”sick and twisted violent people that we’ve been for hundreds of years, it’s something that’s just in our craw, just in our DNA. Americans kill people, because that’s what we do. We invade countries. We send drones in to kill civilians.” USA’s genocides began even before July 4th 1776 – the New England banks African Slave trade, then the land banks pushing for US genocidal war on Native Americans, Mexicans and Filipinos, before invading China and loan sharking the First World War. The greatest crime was rearming a prostrate Nazi Germany for war on the USSR” (Jay Janson, “July 4th flag is a bloodstained symbol”, iBattleboro, 4 July 2019: https://www.ibrattleboro.com/opinion/op-ed/2019/07/july-4th-flag-is-a-bloodstained-symbol/ .