Posted on 06/28/2006 3:07:12 PM PDT by foxy_maiden
Allen believes that flag desecration is conduct and not an exercise of speech, and therefore, should be prohibited.
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Who's taking names on the "no" votes?
Didn't this fail by one vote in the Senate *yesterday*?
It sure did.
Imprisoning dissenters is not patriotic.
It's just moronic.
1) There's no flag desecration problem in this country I can see. In case you don't know, this will do nothing to stop it in Pakistan or Iran.
2) It's going to cause more flag descration here than you could possibly imagine - as well as contributing to clogging up the legal system with people that have burned 49 star or 12 stripe flags, etc.
The way I see it burning our flag just makes it easier to spot the idiots.
Dopey notion.
I liked his national concealed carry bill better. This is just silly, and cuts against all principles of free expression.
Out flag can handle the occasional insult.
And the fact that no state is allowed to outlaw this dangerous practice (when it comes to just the flag) is beyond stupid.
Setting fire to a koran on a college campus is vandalism and will get you arrested, yet setting fire to an American flag under the same circumstance is Constitutionally protected free speech. So sayeth the black robes tyrants. It's utter b.s. It's indefensiveable that vandalism is illegal, except when it comes to our flag.
Let me guess, the U.S. Constitution states that burning an American flag is your constitutional right, just before it states your constitutional right to sodomy?
At what point does it go from conduct to freedom of speech?
Allen-Rice in '08
Or
Allen-Coleman in '08
Either way would be good.
Well I have an idea that one of our senators should purpose, if they have the guts to do so:
"If your so upset the way the country is running, and you don't like the government, then lets burn the senators and represenatives instead and keep Old Glory flying high."
You can easily see that at this rate, there will soon be a flag burning on every patio and street corner from coast to coast.
China produces 90% of the American flags sold here, so the defeat of the amendment by the "strict constructionist" faction forces me to divest my stock in Chinese flag-manufacturing firms. A pity.
Probably because the secular liberal media don't want you to see that it actually happens from time to time in this country.
Meanwhile, a thousand illegal aliens are making their way across our deserts.
If folks want to live in the European Union with their telephone book sized constitution, it's right across the pond. Otherwise, let's try not to fill it up with useless crud, or do you want some court someday to decide that the United Nations flag is also protected as well, based upon this amendment.
It's patriotic to despise flag burners. It's unpatriotic to deny them the right to free speech. BTW, I don't recall seeing many Freepers complaining during the Terri Schiavo protests....when US flags were defaced.
That would have made for interesting comedy. Burn the flag and then complain about it.
And, (prepare to be horrified) I couldn't possibly care less if somebody somewhere burns a American flag they've purchased and that they own, in an area where public burning isn't prohibited, or on their own property. I'd prefer that they didn't - that's why I'm against the amendment, because nothing will do more to cause flag burnings in this country than it being prohibited.
Actually, people have set a koran on fire at my campus and they weren't arrested. They actually did it in the plains also. It's also freedom of speech
Yeah, how dare we deny them the right to their "free speech". Gosh darn it, next thing you know we'll be outlawing the "right" of people to scream "FIRE!" in a crowded theater. Freedom of speech, ya know.
Funny how you can't stand outside a synagogue and calmly set fire to an Isreali flag and a couple of torahs. That's the same kind of "speech" as buring a U.S. flag except THOSE guys get charged and set to prison.
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