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To: Meldrim
Isn't Bork citing the defense of our flag on government outposts? Of course flags that are public and private property should be fully protected.

This issue should worry all Americans. Are we drifting toward a point where dissent is prohibited by law?

I am not going along with the statists on this issue. A lot of other Americans are quite wary of the implications of this zeal, as well. If you don't mind raising the hackles of a large number of freedom-loving Americans, then by all means continue to try to use the Constitution as a vehicle for the suppression of liberty.

That would set a new precedent as well.

34 posted on 11/14/2004 12:44:35 PM PST by risk
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To: risk
"That would set a new precedent as well."

...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.

55 posted on 11/15/2004 5:39:17 AM PST by Meldrim
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