Posted on 11/29/2016 5:43:34 AM PST by SamAdams76
President Elect Donald Trump put out an interesting tweet this morning: "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!"
Maybe some 4-D chess going on? I also found this, Trump's Tweet coupled with a "Flag Protection Act" bill that none other than Crooked Hillary Clinton introduced to the senate floor in 2005.
Anyway, this should provoke some interesting discussion as well as another meltdown from the Left.
Burning ANY flag is protected free speech.
It should not be outlawed. We should not follow the Left’s example of suppressing free speech.
On the other hand, stomping the crap out of someone burning the US flag should be punishable by a $1 fine and a free dinner.
Today when I was driving to work, the guys on the radio were talking about this and Trump bashing. At first I thought I left it on the FOX News channel which carries the Savage for my drive him, but when I looked it was the ESPN Channel.
Trump was born on Flag Day.
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I agree with him.
Love it!!
Let's see the media twist this.
Imagine burning the Israeli Flag in front of King David.
I’ve always felt if you don’t love our flag, leave our country!
One of the worst things the SCOTUS ever did to degrade our country was to treat flag-burning as protected free speech.
Our moron Justices forgot its hate speech - and by far and large - the Left hates America.
Twitter in full meltdown too.
They only thing more important than flag burning to the left is Abortion.
Keep digging libs!
They were wrong. This will be changed.
They will be more confused than ever.
The cognitive dissonance just increased tenfold.
Best Election Ever.
Hillary should not be allowed to run. Yet she ran. Nobody should be allowed to burn the flag. No citizenships will be stripped. The tell is when he says “should not be allowed.”
Burn in hell, Antonin Scalia.
The SOB got his due when he dropped dead.
This will result in them burning more flags in order to stick it to Trump. That will win hearts and minds for sure!
I second that. Between their calls and emails you can easily spend an hour a day or more of your time dealing with them. Especially in the insurance, home alarm systems, and website optimization industries. And then, of course, the scam artists who want you to be a mystery shopper, multiimillion dollar recipient, or sign into your "locked out" account for a supposed security violation to fix the problem...
In the Boy Scouts, I learned you were supposed to burn a US flag which you had allowed to touch the ground.
Agreed. Especially on the last part.
website optimization industries such as this one?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3499402/posts
It’s bad for the enviroment so I cannot believe the Greens or Dems would allow this to happen.
I only agree on the last part
For the past several decades, our illustrious congress and SCOTUS has made it illegal to enforce that law. It might cramp some rabble rouser’s right to “free speech”.
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