NO TO THE FLAG BURNING AMENDMENT!

To: steve-b; Vaquero

On the other hand if I saw someone defiling the flag...I would risk arrest for battery and attempt to knock the offender senseless...

We already have the necessary legal doctrine for the problem -- jury nullification.

Are either of you suggesting that violence is an appropriate response to flag burning?

21 posted on 06/15/2006 2:53:36 PM PDT by timm22 (Think critically)

I take things one case at a time.....

....I take it as a personal affront if someone burns a flag to purposely show their hatred for America.

22 posted on 06/15/2006 4:03:56 PM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)

But hundreds of thousands of Americans died to ensure your right to do just that.

Correct!

24 posted on 06/15/2006 4:25:27 PM PDT by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71)

To: chesty_puller

Therefore...WE DON'T NEED NO STEEENKIN'AMENDMENT! ;^)

27 posted on 06/15/2006 5:26:26 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)

What's next? An amendment banning speech that others may find offensive?

Won't be a need for another amendment banning speech that others may find offensive, because chances are likely that the flag amendment, if fully ratified, would be used as legal precedent to "ban offensive speech" such as anti-gay speech. Just think if the flag amendment was used to criminalize the following biblical passage : "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." - Leviticus 20:13 Would all Bible makers be forced to omit that passage? Better to make no Bible at all than to omit a passage. “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” - Revelation 22:18-19

28 posted on 06/22/2006 3:59:44 PM PDT by bigdcaldavis (Xandros : In a world without fences, who needs Gates?)

To: m1aspringfield

In a dictatorship, you have no rights...other than kissing the dictator's ass.

29 posted on 06/22/2006 4:02:03 PM PDT by bigdcaldavis (Xandros : In a world without fences, who needs Gates?)

When was the last time somebody burned a flag?

30 posted on 06/22/2006 4:03:39 PM PDT by churchillbuff

This one will be popular here. After all its only a "symbol".

Well of course!! Why it would fly in the face of the pledge the Framers would have us say and the little singsong they all joined in practically every day. Hold what's that? The pledge was written by a Socialist in the 1890s and the national anthem wasn't designated as such until 1931? Good to see 'conservatives' adamantly defending 20th century inventions the Framers never would have envisioned over the protection of a piece of cloth

Idiot

I like it. Succint, to the point, and totally void of an argument. That's the 'conservative' spirit!!

31 posted on 06/22/2006 4:04:34 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)

If you want to protest by burning something, this is how you should do it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1525000/images/_1527055_protest1963_150ap.jpg

32 posted on 06/22/2006 4:16:15 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)

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