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To: AppyPappy
It's just a piece of cloth, right? What about the First Amendment?

They STOLE the flag. If they'd made their own "gay flag" and burned it, they might have a chance, but not when they've confessed to destruction of stolen property. Put a fork in them, they're done.

4 posted on 04/16/2002 8:12:04 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: Timesink
That has nothing to do with the "hate crime" allegation (although it isn't a crime there). Should they receive harsher punishment than a liberal US flag burner?
6 posted on 04/16/2002 8:13:36 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Timesink
They STOLE the flag. If they'd made their own "gay flag" and burned it, they might have a chance, but not when they've confessed to destruction of stolen property. Put a fork in them, they're done.

Right. And what about all of those conservative newspapers at many, many universities that were stolen and destroyed, in the past 10-20 years? I don't hear anyone calling for the prosecution of the campus leftists who did this.

By all means - punish the flag stealers for stealing. But don't punish them worse because the victimed group is a "protected class".

39 posted on 04/16/2002 11:02:08 AM PDT by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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