Posted on 09/10/2019 2:55:45 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Local prosecutors in the District of Columbia on Tuesday dismissed remaining charges against a California man whose burning of two American flags outside the White House on the Fourth of July sparked a melee between ideologically opposed groups.
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Imagine a world without Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson
Why?
send the mecahnics
I ma not surprised.
It surprised me that a case was made against him.
If it had been an NRA member burning a “rainbow” flag...
President Trump forgot to include Washington D.C. among the world’s ****holes.
But if someone had burned a cross there 3 years ago...
Now don’t be burning no rainbow flag
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Good thing he didn’t burn a rainbow flag commie or Muslim flag. That would be hate speech.
If he really wanted to make a statement, he would have doused himself in gasoline and while Holding the American Flag, lit himself on fire.
Americans died defending our Flag, and a law should be passed whereby anyone caught burning the American Flag should be shot on sight.
True. Sad isn’t it?
I am with you.
Burn a flag outside the White House and assault 2 officers - let the commie go!
Burn trash outside, get fined and 30 days in jail.
Only time arson is considered speech! Does that mean I can set a theater on fire, but I can’t yell “FIRE!” After I set it?
Joey Johnson is a Marxist psychopath and has been most of his life. He was the basis of the landmark case that said that burning the US flag was protected by the First Amendment.
The original case as I recall was Boos vs. Johnson. Then it went up the court system to the Supreme Court (either of Texas or the US - it was a long time ago).
Patsy Cline’s song about him still rings true - Still Crazy After All These Years”. (not the exact original title but close enough for this discussion.)
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