Posted on 06/01/2008 4:15:30 PM PDT by SwaggerStick
Case – American Flag Burning
Problem: Rebellious people burn the American flag. This is the same flag, that millions of Americans have sacrificed their lives for in war. There are many other ways for rebellious people to demonstrate their hate for America, desecrating or burning the American flag is not demonstrating freedom of speech, it’s an insult and nullifies the sacrifices of million of Americans.
Burning the flag is not enough for the hate America crew, they can’t stand to see the flag fly, at any place, at any time. Sometimes these characters wind up on the board of directors at some housing association, and forbid homeowners to fly the American flag on their property.
Unfortunately, our fine feathered friends in congress are no better, they refuse to make English our official language and they refuse to pass the Flag Desecration Amendment which would prohibit burning or desecrating our flag. When they seek our votes, these characters do not tell us they are for burning and desecrating our flag. What a bunch of disgraceful wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Following is the shameless voting record of congress on the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment. As you can see, there are more and more wolves as time goes on, so very consistent
with the general increase in moral decay in America. You would think the “NO” voters would abstain from voting, but not these characters, they proudly cast their “NO” votes, the hell with American soldiers who have given their lives fighting under our flag.
House Vote
June 28,1995 Yes 312 No 120
June 12,1997 Yes 310 No 114
June 24,1999 Yes 305 No 124
July 17,2001 Yes 298 No 125
June 3, 2003 Yes 300 No 125
June 22, 2005 Yes 286 No 130
Senate Vote
December 12,1995 Yes 63 No 36
March 29,2000 Yes 63 No 37
June 27,2006 Yes 66 No 34
The Senate needed one more yes vote in 2006, but Bob Bennett (UT), Lincoln Chafee (RI), and Mitch McConnell (KY) all voted no.
Burning the flag is not enough for the hate America crew, they can’t stand to see the flag fly, at any place, at any time. Sometimes these characters wind up on the board of directors at some housing association, and forbid homeowners to fly the American flag on their property. Unfortunately, our fine feathered friends in congress are no better, they refuse to make English our official language and they refuse to pass the Flag Desecration Amendment which would prohibit burning or desecrating our flag.
On top of that, if this sort of amendment was to be proposed and ratified, the first thing every rebellious young punk is going to do is burn a flag just to "screw with the Man." Do we really want to be stuffing our prisons full of such people who would otherwise not be committing any criminal activity?
Father Pfleger Bashed Clintons...Again
ABC | June 1 | Jake Tapper
Posted on 06/01/2008 2:02:38 PM PDT by PghBaldy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024512/posts
Pfleger: ‘Hillary and McCain would wish
they had a preacher with the integrity of Jeremiah Wright.’
CampaignSpot ^ | 06/01/2008 | Jim Geraghty
Posted on 06/01/2008 7:01:19 PM PDT by JRochelle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2024604/posts
Ron Paul Lost, Let Me Count the Ways
outsidethebeltway.com
Posted on 06/01/2008 1:37:57 PM PDT by big black dog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2024503/posts
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