Posted on 11/13/2004 11:34:12 PM PST by BellStar
American Legion Commander Thomas P. Cadmus has excoriated U. S. Senate leaders for failure to schedule a vote on a constitutional amendment to protect the flag. “Your inaction sends a message,” he wrote in an open letter. “The flag you are willing to drape over the caskets of our heroes, military and civilian alike, isn’t important enough to protect on our own soil.”
Action is considered unlikely during the lame-duck session, but the story could be different next year with a new party alignment. Partly because of his opposition to the amendment and charges of obstructing Senate votes, Sen. Thomas Daschle, the Democratic leader, lost his re-election bid in South Dakota.
I'm afraid most folks would be dead wrong. The flag amendment was not even on the horizon during the campaign. The major issue was tom dashle's obstruction of anything conservative including judges, and the 60 vote filibuster bs that closed down the senate as a body, allowing a small minority to rule the nation. Other points were his multi million dollar town house in Washington, his lobbyist wife, the appearance that he has lost touch with SD values, etc, etc.
IMHO the flag amendment is a lost cause, and to even suggest that such an important document would be amended for such a small thing as flag desecration leaves me wondering who and what is pushing this proposed amendment.
An absolutely monstrous, gigantic, stupendous, and don't forget hugh, BINGO!
One more BINGO!
Daschle told the Associated Press earlier this week that the flag protection amendment is a “political ploy.”
The only statement of Tom Daschle, I ever agreed with.
Ok, maybe I should have said it wasn't on the horizon in West River SD.
I told my husband about that comment "such a small thing as flag desecration" he said sounds like his golfing buddy a Lt. Gen USAF Rtd. who lives next door. Then he said must be Air Force Type too. I checked and told him Yep!
John Thune called on Daschle to “join the vast majority of South Dakotans who support a constitutional amendment to protect our flag from desecration.”
during news conferences in Sioux Falls and Rapid City in
The flag desecration amendment move is on the same order as hate crimes legislation, an unprovable crime of the mind, and anti-constitution as well. I would venture to say that an equally large number of Army and Marine General Officers as well as Navy Admirals, would be against such an amendment, but whether they are or are not, does not change the facts in the case. It is a dead political issue and does not do the republican cause any favors by continually being touted as a front page issue. I wonder what your stand on hate crimes legislation might be hmmm? I thought so.
Maybe we are going at it all wrong. How about we start burning the Mexican flag? When an uproar over that ensues, and people try to stop that, and protect the Mexican flag, then we protect the US flag as well.
A lot of people didn't think 'morality' was on the horison either.
PS, you don't suppose that something might be done to curb the rampant muslim and mexican invasion of this country, and the out of control abortion of the next three or four generations of real Americans, before we get to the flag burning amendment, and for that matter, why isn't John Kerry up on charges of war crimes, since what he did was far worse than flag burning IMHO!
There is nothing stopping anyone from preventing someone else from desecrating the flag of the United States of America, so explain to me why we need to desecrate the Constitution of the United States of America to provide such a means.
Not the ones that counted.
...the only new precedent set was disregarding the fighting words doctrine that once applied to flag burning, up until the zaniness of the mid-eighties when we learned that a graduation prayer was unamerican and flag burning was constitionally protected. There is not a shred of evidence that indicates any founding father would have considered flag burning or sodomy as protected rights.
1. Muslim and Mexican invasion
2. Out of control abortion
3. John Kerry up on charges of war crimes
We agree more than we disagree friend.
It was just part of the whole ball of things that hit Daschle. When I began hearing the Ave Maria ads, that's when I first thought that this was probably Daschle's last ride.
I wonder why people consider this to be a pressing issue. Funny how I've never seen a flag being burned, execpt by Muslims over in the Mideast.
Sounds exactly like a "political ploy" as commented earlier. It is egregious to use a populist idea as a basis for curtailing freedom and make cheesy political points.
There is not one shred of evidence that the Founding Fathers would have considered audio recordings or televised broadcasts as protected rights.
I don't see anything where a farmer has the right to grow corn instead of soybeans expressly protected either.
Many rights were not enumerated or considered - hence the ultimate catch-all of the Constitution that states in Amendment IX: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. "
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