When Valdosta University student Eric Sheppard began burning the American flag and making threats to murder fellow students, many people were understandably fearful of the 21-year-old.
Sheppard began a new YouTube sensation for like-minded college students: Instead of actually rising up and doing something to fight for what they believe in, in between classes the best he could come up with was burning and desecrating the American flag.
When asked how he came up with such an original idea the college student stated, "That flag represents white supremacy and racism which is plaguing the entire earth." He cited a similar reason while ripping up a Bible.
Sheppard seems to ignore the fact of what that flag represented in the American Civil War, which was fought in part to end slavery; nor does he seem to care for the thousands upon thousands of African American soldiers who have died defending that flag, from the red tailed Tuskegee Airmen to the brave men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After making multiple threats to open fire on innocent civilians in a terrorist attack similar to the Boston Bombings, Sheppard has been arrested for bringing his gun onto campus after making these threats.
After Sheppard wrote a racially charged manifesto in which he stated he would "annihilate" anyone who tried to take him into custody, he quickly went into hiding and managed to evade law enforcement for a month before he was finally tracked down, cowering in fear in a home in Tampa, FL. As offensive as desecrating the flag is, it was his right to freedom of speech; the only problem was that he began to make threats to murder innocent people, and was found bringing a gun into a non-gun school zone. This 21-year-old will certainly have a lot of time to think about what he did.
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