Posted on 06/08/2005 11:26:52 AM PDT by newgeezer
Washington, D.C. Leading up to Memorial Day, with the support of Iowa Congressman Steve King, the House Judiciary Committee passed a Constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to make it a crime to burn the American flag.
Although almost eighty percent of Americans support a Constitutional amendment banning desecration of the American flag, in 1989 and 1990 the Supreme Court ruled that laws passed by Congress violated the First Amendment. Passing a constitutional amendment is the only way to protect the American flag from acts of desecration.
Our Founding Fathers would have never imagined the need for an amendment to the Constitution like this, said King. They fought so hard to be able to display the American flag, and they did so proudly. This Memorial Day weekend, we must remember all of those who fought for our country and this flag. Its not just patriotic to want to protect this flag, but our duty as Americans.
This flag has led the way into battle, been planted on the moon and draped the coffins of Americans who have sacrificed their lives for our county. It was raised at Iwo Jima and in the debris at Ground Zero. It is the symbol of freedom to everyone in the world, added King.
H.J. Res. 10, the Flag Protection Amendment, will need to be passed by two-thirds of the full House and Senate and be ratified by three-fourths of the states to become law. The amendment has been passed by the House with more than the two-thirds majority needed in the past five Congresses. In addition, all 50 state legislatures have petitioned Congress to approve a flag protection amendment and send it to them for ratification. The amendment has been considered in the Senate twice in the last five Congresses, and both times it failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed.
Eloquently said.
And apparently easily ignored.
I'm posting it to one other flag thread, then I'm done.
Aside from the ludicrous analogies, that's certainly one of the more impassioned cases I've seen from those on your side of the issue.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, everyone over to the other (big) thread on this.
I'll never tolerate that. I have my Own Flag-Burning Pledge -
On my Honor. I will do my best to kick the shit out of anyone I see burning the Flag.
You'll be a busy man the day they try to ratify that Amendment......
I am sure I could find plenty of help.
Cool. I always think a society run by fear can get the results I want, as long as I make sure to keep the rabble down so they don't gain power.
And the best way to change a misguided youth's hatred for American is for an American to beat the crap out of him.
(Me, I'm the type of guy who prefers using force to free people who cannot make themselves free --- Iraqis! --- and to protect our nation from physical threats --- former gov't of Iraq! --- and not to quiet those I just happen to disagree with.)
(Because, what's next, do we bomb France for not agreeing with our Iraq position --- okay, bad example --- do we bomb the Swiss for not getting involved?)
Every black eye you give a hippy also gives a black eye to conservatism. Every hippy you reason with --- granted, there are few, and you have to hunt the stragglers from the pack --- can boost the ranks of conservatism, people who'll support our cause because they see it's right, not people who don't oppose our cause because we'll stomp them.
That being said, I'm all for laughing at the flag-burners, pointing at them, and arguing with them until they cry --- hey, they want to burn a flag as freedom of speech, I DO have the right to respond back with, you know, speech, or symbols like some of those wonderful Protest Warrior signs.
Whatever Babble-mouth. Never underestimate the threat of force.
"I'll never tolerate that. I have my Own Flag-Burning Pledge -
On my Honor. I will do my best to kick the shit out of anyone I see burning the Flag."
And exactly how many flag burnings have you seen? I'm all the way up to zero.
I thought profanity wasn't allowed on FR. Makes it sound too much like DU.
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