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To: TheOtherOne
After all, the flag is symbolic of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Really?

You dispute this?
16 posted on 06/20/2005 11:20:51 AM PDT by so_real ("The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: so_real

I do.

The flag is symbolic of our great land, not the pledge itself (that would be circular - a pledge to a symbol of the pledge?).

It is legal to criticize this great land, as well it should be. That includes burning a flag. I don't like the idea of flag-burning, but the law does not exist to enshrine my own personal taste.


18 posted on 06/20/2005 11:29:09 AM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: so_real
"After all, the flag is symbolic of the Pledge of Allegiance."

You dispute this?



Yes, I dispute this. I will humor you and explain.

You logic is circular at best. The flag is symbolic of our nation, The United States of America, not the pledge which was written after the flag was adopted.

Further, the line from the Pledge that you quote says "The Flag". . . "the Republic for which it stands"...get it, it stand for the Republic. Also, how is the Flag going to by symbolic of a Pledge that is about that Flag? Just thinking about it is making me dizzy.

19 posted on 06/20/2005 11:30:44 AM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: so_real
After all, the flag is symbolic of the Pledge of Allegiance.

How could the flag even remotely be symbolic of the pledge? What came first, the chicken or the egg?

33 posted on 06/20/2005 11:59:59 AM PDT by houeto ("Mr. President , close our borders now!")
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