Is it the way to express the Patriotism?

31/08/2007 is the 50^th anniversary for Malaysia's independence.

Normally flags are seen everywhere throughout the whole August. And in this country, a lot of patriotic show their nationalism by making up their vehicles with the national flag. Nothing wrong with it actually, as this is the way we show how much we love our country. But I found a few problems with flag flying vehicles:

1. For some extremist, especially those truck drivers, putting big flags on the side mirrors can really obstruct the other road users
   
2. Some people stick the little flags on the car, and when they are driving at 110km/h and above, the flags drop easily. I have seen more than 20 little flags lying on the highway while I was driving back to hometown during the National Day. Those flags are run over by cars and dirty. This is really in no way showing respect to the flag.
   
3. Also there are people who put a big flag at the back of car, making it look like a sail. But the problem is, they are not driving on the sea, and so the flags become road sweepers and you can imagine how dirty it is.
   

We all love Malaysia. So in my 2 cents, its really not the right way to show the nationalism. What say you?