Quote Originally Posted by allodial View Post
Is Shikamaru half-ignoring you too? Its obviously and plainly customary for a land military unit to fly a yellow-fringed version of a national flag. SO THAT ADEQUATE DISTINCTIONS CAN BE MADE.



U.S. Army Regulations ca. 1924. The interesting things is that the "Patriot Sites" purporting the gold fringe flag to signify "admiralty" seem to fail provide scans of their source material. Nonetheless, begs the question is why would the U.S. Army have a rule for putting yellow fringe on a flag and then it really meaning nothing? The U.S. Army has members which are highly skilled and knowledgeable concerning heraldric matters. The meaning, color and placement of the fringe could be said to be highly esoteric in nature.

It seems important to obviate the following: per ancient military law a standing army can set up a government or maintain continuity of the occupied goverment. That is, a government could strangely come to "within" an army. Related: Lieber Code, The Prince (Machiavelli). Considering the many, many war movies, why has Hollywood for the most part skirted around this topic? The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy have accountants, quartermasters, finance divisions. The U.S. military branches are instilled with competence for dispensing GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS from tax collection to providing police services to sanitation to road maintenance. Its not just about shooting guns and dropping bombs. If you read the U.S. law that established the U.S. Deparment of Justice it would be obivated that the U.S. Navy JAG was put under the U.S. Attorney General. If you've never seen a traffic ticket from an MP--it looks very much like the traffic ticket thats issued "off base". One major difference is that where it says "Service number" on a "on base" traffic ticket, it would say "social security number" on an "off base" ticket.

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So begs the question that might just be entertained for the sake of the "utterly dense": Why are gold-fringed flags flying in military court rooms? DO THEY WANT YA TA MISTAKE IT FOR TRAFFIC COURT?
Yeah, and every single inhabitant is military personnel? If people get so caught up in general appearances they lose the forest through the trees, they do not know who they are.