Posted on 11/29/2016 11:06:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
... or from displaying the Confederate flag, etc.
Basically if you give the government to ability to tell you what you can and cannot say (or express in other ways) there is no end to it.
I think you need to morph more Libertarian, read the dissenting opinion, and think a little on it.
The Flag represents America and the people of America and what America stands for at its best. Brave men and women died protecting that flag from abuse in the face of an enemy and we shouldn’t allow domestic enemies to do it scot free here.
There is little doubt that decisions of 9 men and women on the SCOTUS have often been WRONG, have been reversed and rejected in the past and there is good reason for revisiting this now. Its PAST time we got a little self respect back and stopped allowing a small bunch of radical drama queens who hate America dictate what we will accept.
As for respecting the Constitution, I do and that is why I believe in original intent and freedom of speech and freedom of the press and speech is exactly that and has nothing to do with “expression”. If “expression” was always protected, people would be allowed to walk down the street naked or screw dogs in public, and they are not for good reason. And for good reason, no one should be allowed to disgrace our flag.
Until 1989 when Brennan’s court decision suddenly “discovered” this previously unknown “right” at the urging of mad dog liberal William Kunstler, a hate America type of the first order, very few if ANY people would have considered this act a matter of free speech.
The fact that the flag represents hose things makes it even more fodder as a symbol of protest because it pushes buttons of people like you.
I don’t read dissenting opinions when I have fully formulated my opinions. I have understood the bill of rights since we were taught them by a catholic priest born in Ireland.
No ne is asking you to accept anything except people’s rights as your rights should be respected.
You may respect the constitution but you clearly don’t understand some of the basic precepts.
No. The Internet is covered by freedom of the press and speech. But not of expression.
Rehnquist would disagree with you. No freedom is absolute.
Rehnquist would disagree with you. No freedom is absolute.
I disagree and he’ll have a good time enforcing this in court.
Which the leftist Am Flag burners never get charged with.
Anti-sodomy protesters in my city were arrested along a route of the “gay pride” parade in my city. And no code violations were committed. They were arrested for “hate.”
Well since I didn’t argue that it is absolute, I don’t have to defend that position.
I’m pointing out the slippery slope that so many here want to ignore.
Right
Which is wrong and where we are headed with repeated incursions into 1A. The flag issue is a camel’s nose under the tent.
People like me??
I am not a priest and I was not born in Ireland but in America and I don’t need any foreigner to teach me my rights, especially somebody who was probably born much later then I was.
Society needs to have some respect for itself and the things it values or it becomes an association of self centered pigs who think they have a privilege to do anything that seizes them at the moment regardless of how impacts or insults others.
I was born in 1946, right after WW2 ended. I lived at a time when America still respected itself as it deserves to be respected because it is the best place that ever existed.
I saw it change, not for the better, thanks to people like you and wacko liberal jurists who feel people have a right to do anything they choose regardless of how it impacts society and other people.
During most of the lifetime of America, the American flag was an object of special reverence and respect and if anyone tried disgracing it in public, there would have been little need of a court to deal with the problem. We would have seen to it ourselves.
To my knowledge, nobody came down from Heaven in 1989 with a new revelation from God to the effect that it was now O.K. to allow pigs to insult the American flag with impugnity.
“Would you like to see a federal agency that forces people to stand for the National Anthem?”
We’re not talking about forcing people to stand for the national anthem. The issue is flag desecration.
I guess were done. I have some protesters to arrest.
Exactly, because once movements like this get some legitimacy from the courts and the drive by media and the liberal establishment, people immediately stand back and refuse to get involved.
All of which is a reason for doing exactly what Trump proposes.
It seems ridiculous to have to adopt an Amendment to protect our national flag from pigs, but it would seem it has to come down to this if necessary.
You mean, “I guess we’re done.”
The flag code is not a criminal law, it’s just a bunch of optional advice.
What, you don’t believe they exist???
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