I am with Scalia on this one.
I think the SCOTUS ruled that burning the flag is protected free speech.
Settled law, Supreme Court.....
If part of a protest, free speech.....
We are the only country in the world to allow it.....
.....and we are much stronger for it....
I live in Thailand. Disrespect the King and you end up in Jail.
When Government outlaws peaceful political expression, no matter how moronic or distasteful, that is a sign of weakness and insecurity.
Here is what I don’t understand:
If I were to go to some unpleasant section of, let’s say, Baltimore, and I were to approach a gentleman who might be leaning against a fence, and if I address that man with the “n-word”, I suspect that fisticuffs would ensure. And if this matter were to come to the court’s attention, I suspect that my use of “fighting words” would work against me.
Why is it not the case that burning the flag is so different? I consider such a sight to be the equivalent of “fighting words”.
Trump is just sucking all the media oxygen out of the room to control the narrative, relax. Its a media rope-a-dope tactic. Enjoy watching them twist.
Not that I necessarily support making flag burning illegal, but, the Hypocrisy of the left, as usual is just as stunning as the lack of basic research by the “talking heads” of the LSM.
Basic research reveals that Trump was NOT the first prominent person to support such a bill, and in 2005....
“The Flag Protection Act of 2005 was a proposed United States federal law introduced by Senators Bob Bennett (R-UT) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY).
The law would have prohibited burning or otherwise destroying and damaging the US flag with the primary purpose of intimidation or inciting immediate violence. It called for a punishment of one year in jail and a fine of $100,000.[1][2][3]
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the act was summarized as such:
Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions regarding desecration of the flag to prohibit: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; or (2) stealing or knowingly converting the use of a U.S. flag either belonging to the United States or on lands reserved for the United States and intentionally destroying or damaging that flag.[4]
Since the law was not passed nor considered by the United States Congress, its constitutionality was not challenged by the Supreme Court; the bill was never assigned to committee.[5]
However, the bill’s language was designed so as to prohibit the desecration of a flag when the intent was found to be a threat to public safety, the intention being that it would therefore not violate the First Amendment and not be declared unconstitutional[” - Reference Wikipedia
He’s trolling MSM and SJW on an epic level.
Best Election Ever.
Don’t disrespect it around me.
I’m also with Scalia on this one.
But, it won’t prevent me from laughing when some dumbass lighting the flag on fire accidentally sets himself on fire, too.
I don’t like it, but I respect our Constitution and the rights it guarantees.
Trampling the U.S. flag dishonors those who gave their all for the cause of FREEDOM and LIBERTY.
Burning my flag just tells me that, regardless of what you may claim to be “protesting”, you are just another commie traitor, useful idiot and I don’t need to pay attention to anything you say.
The solution is very simple. Pass a law that no one can burn ANYTHING in public except the fire department.
As for stomping on the flag, I haven’t come up with anything yet.
Sad that this needs to even be said. Where were parents, etc?
Do not disrespect it in PUBLIC?
Anyone desecrating the American Flag should be shot on the spot.
“Go to France and start insisting that people speak English.”
hmmm, France is a tourist country. And English is the tourist language, so no problem here.
But on the other hand, I don’t remember seeing anyone not standing up when we sing the Marseillaise, let alone kneeing. Were I a child or even an adolescent, my parents would pull me up by the ears.