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Posted on 08/29/2025 12:33:21 PM PDT by simpson96
As some Democrats mock President Donald Trump for signing an executive order cracking down on burning the American flag, a clip has resurfaced of then-New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton calling for a very similar prohibition against flag desecration.
In a resurfaced clip from 2006, Clinton took to the Senate floor to advocate on behalf of a bill titled the "Flag Protection Act" that she said would make it a crime to desecrate the American flag.
Addressing the Senate president, Clinton said, "I hope, Mr. President, that we can pass a law that criminalizes flag burning and desecration."
Clinton said, "I agree wholeheartedly that maliciously burning or destroying an American flag is a deeply offensive and despicable act," adding that it "disrespects our nation, it belittles the sacrifices of our brave veterans, it even sends a message to the soldiers who fight today protecting our freedom that their service is in some way to be disrespected and discounted."
She drew a comparison to the 2003 Supreme Court case Virginia v. Black that clarified the burning of crosses with intent to intimidate is a crime.
"Now burning a flag to me is also despicable and I believe that there is no denying when we talk about our flag, Americans’ emotions run deep, and we know that when we look at the flag, and it’s deliberately maliciously destroyed that is an intimidating experience in many instances," she said, adding, "I agree that this flag burning, this desecration, that can happen to our flag, is something that people have a right to ask this body to try to prohibit and prevent."
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Who gives a shite what illary had has to say?
Eggs Ackley. Hillaryous Rotten Criminal is still alive. When will that nightmare end?
It is illegal to start any open fire in a public place, flag or not. Arrest them for public endangerment.
Trump knows his flag burning EO is unconstitutional. He’s not concerned. He also knows it’s going to drive countless videos of prominent Democrats burning flags in defiance as we run up to the midterms.
i would never burn this nation’s flag but when they say i can’t, that makes me want to do it. america is great because americans are free.
Everything Hillary said from roughly 2008 through November 2016 was scripted and focus-group tested. Of course she said this. Someone told her it would win her votes.
Uh, you mean Mrs. Bill Clinton actually got one right?
There is a certain Hillary sensitivity about the particular instance of a former Arkansas Secretary of State who served jail time in Arkansas per a flag scam that he did.
Supposedly he had a juicy story to tell about Bill Clinton pertaining to the Paula Jones era but wasn’t able to do anything much because of dire health reasons—RIP.
Hillary said a marriage could only between one man and one woman.
And all the illegal immigrants should be rounded up and deported.
She and Newsom will eventually cover all the sides of all the political issues.
Like a weathervane on top of a barn during varying wind conditions.
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