Legion Commander Blasts Senate Leaders Over Failure to Move Flag Amendment

Clear Lake (Kemah) Elks Lodge #2322 ^ | November, 2004 | Elks Government Relations Report

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I've criticized those who would burn the French flag here on FR, as well as those who would burn the American flag. Neither are any better than those who would pass laws to prevent people from expressing whatever sentiments they would have for choosing to burn flags. It's not the Mexican immigrants, Mexico, or Spanish speaking people who bother me, either. It's our leaders for failing to enforce the just and good laws that we already have that would defend our borders, our culture, and our national sovereignty.

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There is not a shred of evidence that indicates any founding father would have considered flag burning ... [a] protected [right].

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.