if burning it is free speech, then knocking him out is free speech also...
Posted on 10/25/2009 5:49:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
if burning it is free speech, then knocking him out is free speech also...
Why not just shoot him from your porch and claim 1st Amendment rights?
Sounds like KIDNAPPING to me, immediately file criminal charges with the Attorney General, if this Attorney doesn’t know the law shouldn’t he be FIRED? as well as the COP.
and no I don’t believe it is right to burn the American Flag, mine is upside down as we speak.
If ignorance of the law is no excuse, will the prosecutor and police officer be on the hook for false arrest and false prosecution? Or is it only no excuse for us plebes?
no satisfaction...
Not to mention his attempted arson.
While the prosecutor certainly should have known about Texas v. Johnson — I studied the case in high school — I’d fix the ultimate blame on the state legislature for allowing unenforceable laws to remain on the books. It’s not a county prosecutor’s job, let alone a police officer’s, to decide which statutes to enforce.
It’s like the woman said, if you are going to burn the Flag please wrap yourself in it first.
I for one am sick to death of the degenerate hoard of ungrateful disrespectful traitors that wipe their cods on our flag and their leftist/libertarian enablers that insist such a damnable act is so called “free speech” 1st amendment rights. If you hate this country so much then pack your $h!T and co start your own country or move to one that suits you.
Whether flag desecration is "free speech" or not, I don't think there is any justification for classifying it as a criminal act. The only thing hurt by flag burning is other people's feelings. I don't think we should use the force of government simply to protect people's feelings.
It’s almost as bad as melting that golden bull on Wall Street down instead of laying hands on it and praying.
obama’s “flag czar”.
There is a very good chance the FCC will determine that what we do at FR is not.
Spare me, The absurd idea that (in the name of liberty)nothing is sacred except total anarchy and disrespect to those who’s sacrifice made possible the freedom that you abuse is repugnant to anyone with a single molecule of honor and integrity.
I'm not saying anything about what is sacred and what isn't. I'm saying that in a free society the government needs to be strictly limited to a few essential tasks. One of those tasks should not be protecting people's feelings from things that are merely repugnant.
Or do you believe people have a right not to be offended?
This is why libertarians are a joke and nobody ever takes them seriously, They think pissing on graves unabated is the definition of liberty.
Back when our forefathers founded this country, anyone that desecrated the flag would've been drawn and quartered as a public spectacle and warning to any other traitors.
What if it's just some guy on a soapbox on the corner saying "America is a lousy, shameful country and here's ten reasons why." Should the government lock him up, too?
Look up the word treason in the dictionary.
No, I think he should be informed this is a free country and he's free to move to france if he doesn't like this country, Then he should be ignored until he sets blaze to the flag then he should be shot by firing squad for treason.
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