Posted on 02/28/2014 1:33:58 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
I'm going to go out on a limb and say most, if not all of them, will say it's hate speech and should be prosecuted as a hate crime. At a minimum they will say it's offensive and should not be done.
Or a Mexican Flag.
You might could get away with burning a Canadian flag - at least in the US
Or a quran.
Or ask them if they think putting a noose on the James Meridith statue at Ole Miss is constitutionally protected symbolic speech like burning the American Flag. Or does Black Race Privilege trump the Constitution?
Burning a flag is part of its heritage.
Thats how you destroy a used up tattered flag.
You mean, burning it out of spite? Well it might not break any laws but it would warrant a butt kickin.
I seem to remember a town in Georgia (USA) that was forced to drop a flage burning law in the 1990’s. They agreed to consider flag burning “free speech”.
They also passed a law that if you assaulted a flag burner, you would be fined $10.00.
Legally? Yes, it is, and should be. It is “offensive and should not be done,” but it also should not be illegal.
I’d pay $20 then punch him again.
My friend Mike Boos was the original plaintiff in what became “Johnson v. US”, the flag burning case that went to the Supreme Court. The SC held that burning the flag was “free speech”.
What you don’t know is that Johnson was a member of the Maoist “Revolutionary Communist Party” and this was an ideological fight against America.
He thought he had won, but in the end, the Constitution won.
Hell, I’ve burnt Viet Cong and Red Chinese flags here in DC, one right in front of Dr. Spock and the other at the State Dept.
No one arrested me. No one harassed me. I made my statement (and CBS carried it in Nov., 1969).
What I object to is the school that wouldn’t let American students wear American flag t-shirts when the school celebrated Mexican Independence Day.
It was toadying to a specific group of students AND THE FEAR OF VIOLENCE BY THESE STUDENTS AGAINST THESE MAINLY AMERICANS THOUGH I SAW AT LEAST ONE HISPANIC STUDENT IN THIS GROUP WEARING THE AMERICAN FLAG T-SHIRT. THAT TOOK GUTS.
If these Mexican/Mexican-American kids live and go to school here, they can celebrate Mexican Independence Day all they want, but THEY CANNOT THREATEN VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO WANT TO EXPRESS THEIR LOYALTY TO THEIR COUNTRY, THE USA
By giving into the threats and Hispanic thugs, the school has done more damage to the Constitution than the decision in Johnson vs. US.
This is where our fight should be. To clean out that school’s administration and the court that upheld their cowardly thinking.
It has now set a precedent that any thug group can suppress freedom of expression by people who disagree with them.
Let’s see if the Dept. of Justice, Herr Holder, and Comrade Obama do anything to support OUR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
I wouldn’t hold my breath, if I were you, but it is A GREAT POLITICAL ORGANIZING ISSUE AND ONE WHICH WE SHOULD GRAB BY THE BALLS AND RUN WITH UNTIL 2016 IS GONE.
You are correct, its political correctness that trumps anything and everything. It all boils down to people’s cult-like worship of everything that is politically correct.
“”I made my statement (and CBS carried it in Nov., 1969)””
Oh man, Nov 1969. While you were doing that I imagine I was on my back with my mama changing my diaper.
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