The writer doesn't attack the US flags outright, though. (S)he attacks the exclusivity of symbollism organized through a top-down style. Aside for the criticism of El Pistolero, I can attest that aside from the RCP's red flags, the only folks passing out or selling flags has exclusively US flags, as opposed to the previous protests.

The need to legitimize the protest or one's right to be in this country aside, there is still something disorienting about the focus the flag and that chant by some (but not most) of the leadership.