I remember (back in the period you speak of) that I thought that 'pot' was about the stupidest word ever to be used in place of 'marijuana'. I had no idea why that word was picked, and still don't.
I only have one question. Did you like my poem?
Posted on 08/13/2014 9:15:47 PM PDT by chessplayer
Sadly, it’s not a hypothetical question.
“Police in Garwood, New Jersey, ordered that a militant flag associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) be removed from the font of a local home after hundreds of online activists expressed fear and revulsion,” the Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday.
Rights aren't Rights unless everyone has them, whether we agree with them or not.
The swastika isn’t banned.
I thought that displaying the swatstika is a hate crime.
I don’t hate America, but apparently you don’t really care for the Constitution and the ideals that it represents.
The Freedom of Speech is granted to us by our creator, recognized and protected by the Constitution, and is not subject to restriction because you, me, or anyone else finds it offense or putrid.
If speech is not offensive, then there is no need to protect it. What would be the point?
So the only speech that needs protection, as it is a right given by God to all of mankind, is speech that other take offense at.
Yes, flying a flag of ISIS is horribly offensive. Yes, it stands for vile and horrible beliefs and actions. Yes, it is protected by the Constitution as speech.
It isn’t a hatred of America or the Constitution that makes me think this way, it is an understanding that freedom means the freedom to make choices that I believe are disgusting and repellent.
Nope. Neo-Nazis still have rallies, still wear their uniforms, and tattoo parlors still mark up morons with it all the time.
More to the point, why do you have friends that would fly the Nazi flag?
You have the right to fly the ISIS flag. You should have the sense and decency not to.
So, you have no problem destroying their private property because you don't like the message behind it?
Interesting.
I was in high school and they were classmates, more like acquaintances.
One of the guys was named Schultz. His mother was German and he kind of thought Nazis had cool uniforms, mannerisms, or whatever? Why do high school boys do what they do? Maybe it was all because they didn't have girlfriends.
The decked out one of their parents cars to look like a Nazi staff car and paraded back home one day after school. They all wore Nazi arm bands which they constructed themselves. Someone reported them, and the FBI came and interviewed them and wanted to know if they were part of some group. After they found they were just some silly kids, they talked to them about the seriousness of what they had done. That was the end of the matter.
This was in 1969, or maybe a couple of years earlier (I know, I am ancient). Recall, just a few years earlier the country had a House Un-American Activities Committee. Now, the House has only Democrats.
You should have the right to fly any rag you wish—Confederate flag, Nazi Flag, USSR Flag, Tea Party Flag, Any flag—its called Freedom—and the American Way.
I remember (back in the period you speak of) that I thought that 'pot' was about the stupidest word ever to be used in place of 'marijuana'. I had no idea why that word was picked, and still don't.
I only have one question. Did you like my poem?
The Dems are like dealing with a bipolar manic depressive.
If you want war, they don't. If you don't , they do. If you start one, it's either too slow or too fast.
Even if you start one, they want to pull out the minute you start making progress. You just can't please them no matter what you do.
The Andy Warhol poem?
Yeah...it rhymed. ...
Because the people who have taken over our government, invaded out nation, and are preparing to install a socialist government made up of criminals from all over the world don't want to be bothered with a law like 'treason' (unless you are being treasonous to them).
Since they decide who laws apply to and who they don't, very few cases of treason have ever been tried.
IN the 30s, my husband’s mother flew an Irish flag with no problem.
More recently, a local church flew an American and Jewish flag with no problem
Personal, yes.
Just remember, up until the attempted assassination, there was a world wide agreement that heads of govt did not have other heads of govt assassinated. You let one dictator get away with it, and it encourages others. Perhaps the other nations of the world agreed with Bush that Saddam had to be made an example of.
That is a good theory.
Bush had respect from world leaders.
Obama is a laughing stock around the world.
It makes him even more dangerous in what he may do because of it.
Should / did Nazis in America have the right to wave the Swastika during WWII, when Germany was a sworn enemy of the US? At a time when traitors and spies could be executed for treason or espionage? I don’t know the answer.
As a practical matter, no. As a legal and Constitutional matter, sure.
That was the last war America declared, so it would be as clear as day. There were German-Americans interned during that war on suspicion of treason, similar to the famous Japanese-Americans (as well as Italian-Americans). I think anyone flying an Italian fascist flag, a flag of the Third Reich, or a Japanese flag would have been subject to more than just a little pressure to take it down.
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