[muawiyah]

The specific problem was your claim (implicit in the argument) that the flag was just a piece of cloth, and its disposition should lie entirely in the control of its "owner".

I am surprised you don't know the history of the call to "property rights" in the South. Maybe they don't teach that part in school anymore eh?!

You should have cringed and slunk away when I called you on it.

[muawiyah]

Try post 8 where you led off with: "A victory for private property rights ...."

Jeff Davis couldn't have put itmore succinctly.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"The specific problem was your claim (implicit in the argument) that the flag was just a piece of cloth, and its disposition should lie entirely in the control of its "owner"."

My argument was about flags in general. If someone steals another's flag and burns it, they should be punished for theft and destruction of property, not for *flag-burning*.

"I am surprised you don't know the history of the call to "property rights" in the South. Maybe they don't teach that part in school anymore eh?!"

So, if some people at one time made a stupid argument about property rights (in regard to slavery), all invocations of property rights are now crap? Did they ever teach you logic in your school?

"You should have cringed and slunk away when I called you on it."

You were making way too much of an ass of yourself for me to have you stop. I need to have some amusement in life.