posted on June 26, 2005 01:11:35 AM new
Well...the house did pass it...and I believe the Senate will too this time. Whether it makes the grade with the requirement from the states, I don't count on that happening. Not once the ACLU and their supporters get in the mix.
Our flag is a symbol of what we stand for, imo. It's always been lifted when we've won a war, fought for and gained a 'hill' [on and one]. It's the same thing that the rescue workers did when they lifted her up in all her glory... following the 9-11 attacks....WHY??? because it says who we are...what we're about...etc.
This nonsense about it's free speech to burn or destroy our flag is just that....total disrespect for what it and America stands for....and imo, shouldn't be allowed.
Heck...the liberals get their panties in a bunch when the Koran is supposedly MISHANDLED....we're not respecting THEIR religion/concerns. But...hey they'll support burning our flag.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on June 26, 2005 04:06:10 AM new
While I think burning the flag is terribly disrespectful, it is freedom of expression, a form of free speech which is protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. You can't pick and choose which parts of the Constitution should be protected based upon public opinon or personal feelings. To do so would be to say that our forefathers had no idea what they were doing.
"Freedom of speech and of the press are fundamental rights which are safeguarded by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. ... The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and is equally fundamental. As this Court said in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 552: `The very idea of a government, republican in form, implies a right on the part of its citizens to meet peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs, and to petition for a redress of grievances.' The First Amendment of the Federal Constitution expressly guarantees that right against abridgment by Congress. But explicit mention there does not argue exclusion elsewhere. For the right is one that cannot be denied without violating those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all civil and political institutions, -- principles which the Fourteenth Amendment embodies in the general terms of its due process clause." _ Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)
posted on June 26, 2005 04:29:40 AM new
""Heck...the liberals get their panties in a bunch when the Koran is supposedly MISHANDLED....we're not respecting THEIR religion/concerns. But...hey they'll support burning our flag. ""
Dear braindead....the flag , you poor misguided thing, is NOT a religious symbol or item. You poor dillusional brainwashed thing.
Now, I KNEW how linduh would answer(I didn't think it would be quite that dumb ) .
Fascism touts and promotes flag worship.
America is NOT a piece of cloth....America stands for the freedom to burn that piece of cloth.
Besides, if you don't think it's wrong to "mishandle" the Koran then it would follow that you don't think it's wrong to burn a flag.
[ edited by crowfarm on Jun 26, 2005 04:45 AM ]
posted on June 26, 2005 09:11:03 AM new
::Heck...the liberals get their panties in a bunch when the Koran is supposedly MISHANDLED....we're not respecting THEIR religion/concerns. But...hey they'll support burning our flag.::
Well, unless the United States has become a religion and the words of it's God are hidden within the stitching of the flag I fail to see how the two are related.
Since you have this belief that flags are sacred, will that apply to all flags or just the American flag. Will people also be charged for burning an Iranian, or Saudi or Mexican flag or is it only our flag that is sacred.
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