here here :) Gruss Gott wrote: >>Tony wrote: >>im sorry, but im wholly against burning the flag. >>free speech has a line, and for me it stops at the first stripe! >> > > > I'll grant you it's disturbing, but here's the problem: If you ban > flag "desecration" you're elevating a symbol of the state to revered > status. The beauty of the American flag is that it stands for freedom > - a moron can burn a thousand of them and what it stands for is more > true with every burning. > > If we start making symbols of the state more important than what the > symbols stand for then we'll lose part of what makes America great. > It also raises other questions such as which other symbols of the > state are we going to protect with the constitution? > > Pictures of the President? Statue of Liberty models you buy in NY > gift shops? Copies of the constitution? And then what is desecration? > What if you have a flag t-shirt on and you get BBQ sauce on it from a > 4th picnic? Do you go to jail? > > Also keep in mind the company we'd be in: Hitler, Mussolini, and > Hussein all made it illegal because they had to to force their people > to respect the state. Is our democracy so fragile that we need to > criminalize that which we claim to value? > > Remember the constitution is about the rights of citizens not the > rights of the state. We shouldn't use the constitution to ban > everything that's disturbing and the Supreme Court has already ruled > on this issue. It's simply a challenge to the judicial branch by the > House. > > Ultimately this is just a Republican attempt to create a patriot > litmus test that they can use during the next election. You'll be > hearing this: "My liberal opponent doesn't even want to protect the > American Flag." > > When there's so many important issues we need smart people for, this > pedagogic attempt to appeal to emotions rather than intelligence is a > new low for the Republicans. > >
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