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To: Chappaquiddick Crawdad
What pisses me off is when people claiming to be Americans do all manner of desecration to their own flag, and are allowed to get away with it.

What do you suggest for punishment for those Americans?

26 posted on 06/11/2005 12:29:11 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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To: TheOtherOne
What pisses me off is when people claiming to be Americans do all manner of desecration to their own flag, and are allowed to get away with it.

What do you suggest for punishment for those Americans?

I don't know, I'm not a big fan of the phrase "there should be a law", so I'm a bit hesitant to call for a law against flag-burning. On the other hand, people who do so should be held accountable for it by other citizens. Nor do I think any city should permit such behavior in demonstrations. I don't think there should be a federal or state law concerning what a city can allow in this regard, but I'd hope that people in these city councils would have the patriotic conscience to draw the line at that point. And there's always a fuzzy line between freedom of speech and incitement of treason when it comes to flag-burning.

54 posted on 06/11/2005 6:20:52 PM PDT by Chappaquiddick Crawdad ("E unum pluribus"? Perhaps you meant "ex uno plures", or is that "stultus sum"? hmmm...)
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