11-30-2016, 04:47 PM
I'm with the lawmakers and veterans who fought so hard against a Constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, because freedom of dissent/speech/expression is key in a democratic society and what separates us from an authoritarian state.
It does not surprise me a bit that Donald Trump is tossing out crap like this -- more red meat for the angry and gullible.
No one ever died because a flag was burned, but plenty of people have died fighting to protect that first amendment right. Those who instinctively shit on all things American 'establishment' and on all Americans who exercise their first amendment rights in dissent...are hypocritically doing the verbal equivalent of burning a flag each time, in my opinion.
Those hypocrites who have a coronary over people exercising their first amendment rights when they don't agree with the message are often the very same people who have a coronary over just the idea that some people's second amendment rights might be more regulated or limited in any way.
Anyhow, I think the Supreme Court got it right in its ruling that flag-burning is protected by the Constitution. It's the 'PC patriots' that want to restrict free expression/speech who would likely find it most eye-opening to go live under a dictatorship.
It does not surprise me a bit that Donald Trump is tossing out crap like this -- more red meat for the angry and gullible.
No one ever died because a flag was burned, but plenty of people have died fighting to protect that first amendment right. Those who instinctively shit on all things American 'establishment' and on all Americans who exercise their first amendment rights in dissent...are hypocritically doing the verbal equivalent of burning a flag each time, in my opinion.
Those hypocrites who have a coronary over people exercising their first amendment rights when they don't agree with the message are often the very same people who have a coronary over just the idea that some people's second amendment rights might be more regulated or limited in any way.
Anyhow, I think the Supreme Court got it right in its ruling that flag-burning is protected by the Constitution. It's the 'PC patriots' that want to restrict free expression/speech who would likely find it most eye-opening to go live under a dictatorship.