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, isnt 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.
You've already tried to make that point. I think you've forgotten that rights do not come from yourself, the state, or even our Founding Fathers.
You want to give the state too much power, power it absolutely does not deserve. Not only that, but you've managed to abdicate your mental faculties to a very weak and sketchy understanding of history.
Defending a state-owned flag has nothing to do with defending a personally purchased or created flag anyway.
In any case, good luck with your statist agenda. I'll not support it. Millions of other good Americans will doubt your sincerity and your true patriotism for threatening their unclaimed right to protest their own government. You'll even drive good Americans away from the Republican party in the process. That bothers me, but I can see that such an appeal would have little effect on you.
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