Big Government has no business telling people, no matter how moronic they are, what forms of peaceful political protest are acceptable to The State.
Message is being sent to muzzies and libs. I like it!
I agree with Trump...deport them if they are foreign born or anchor babies.
I understand and respect the citizenship's right of free speech... but with limits such as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. There should be repercussions for citizens who freely choose to make a choice of burning the US flag... if you are receiving Federal/state funds... then you should be fined as per the flag burning statue quoted in this thread.
And there is nothing in the SC's decision of free speech rights for "illegal" immigrants. If convicted of burning the flag, they should be deported to their origin as soon as possible with no possibility of US citizenship for life.
As a military veteran who was in harms way more than once for this country, I respectfully submit that one of the things I was there for was to protect our right to speak out about anything having to do with our government - including but not limited to burning the flag, hanging any elected official in effigy - and burning them if you like - among other things.
If you allow for the government to punish someone who burns the US flag, then where will you draw the line after that? Eventually someone will want to punish someone for something else that a majority may find equally egregious. And they’ll use the “flag burning law” as precedent.
Does it piss me off when someone does it? Sure - but asshats are a dime a dozen. Ignore them and they’ll go away. Give them attention by arresting them and putting them on trial and everything else and you’re just giving them what they want: Attention.
Burning the flag is a small issue - compared to some of the things facing us, I’d say it’s at the sub-atomic level.
Take the moral high ground by ignoring those who do it and focus the national attention on the bigger fish we have to fry.
Or you can choose to act like the leftards and work yourself into a lather over it.
One thing I never understood was why their is a standard to fold, dispose and care for an American flag, but no standard when it comes to setting it on fire in protest.
Everyone should be allowed to burn the flag . . . but burning the flag for public consumption should be, rebuttably, understood as a renunciation of American citizenship, same to be sold to someone from a foreign land who has been screened and will appreciate it.The proceeds of the sale used to transport the flag burner to any country he/she prefers, of those which will accept him/her.
Of course a hearing would ensue, and the flag burner could publicly reject the offer to buy his/her citizenship. Thereby negating the original insult.