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To: steve-b

I agree with Neal as well as with Justice Scalia, who knows the value of protecting free speech.

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


11 posted on 06/15/2006 5:53:49 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: 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.

That's another reason this whole "amendment" foolishness is without merit. We already have the necessary legal doctrine for the problem -- jury nullification.

13 posted on 06/15/2006 5:57:27 AM PDT by steve-b (Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam.)
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To: Vaquero
To burn the American flag in an act of anger or protest is despicable.

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

Don't forget that.

14 posted on 06/15/2006 6:00:15 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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