The interesting fact that Hitlary is said to have promoted this way back when is that she was going with the tide on this. It was found to be a freedom of speech to burn the US Flag in protest which quickly put a kabosh on her touting the flag burning ban. I am not defending Hitlary nor am I defending the right to burn the flag. I think if people in the USA wants to burn the flag, they should also burn their citizenship as well. I proudly supported and defended the flag back then and still do so today. The only reason I bring this up is because the MSM won’t.
Trump isn’t threatening them. He knows that it their Constitutional right; he’s just expressing his disgust as an American for an act that he considers anti-American.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson#Rehnquist.27s_dissent
I agree with Rehnquist AND TRUMP. People who desecrate the flag should face legal punishment. It is NOT a valid expression of political belief.
I am 100 percent in support of fag burning.
Liberals really are mental, flag burning has been protected as free speech by liberal judges; not because it has anything to do with the First Amendment.
Liberals twist the Constitution and Bill of Rights especially...flag burning, abortion, killing disabled people all in the name of rights.
just allow for Public Safety Committees within our communities to deal with them
PE Trump did not threaten anything. He expressed his opinion like he has done so much in the past. The interesting thing is that his opinions have often led to debate on the subject he covered.
At the very least, flag burning in public is disturbance of peace.
If he was concerned about the flag he could go after the NFL, NBA, MLB or any other sports team who wears the flag on their uniforms, which is a no no.
I guess we don't have enough laws out their for central planners.
I would require all prison food to include pork. Pork chili, pork soup, pork salad, pork ice cream.
I equate flag burning with yelling fire in a theater.
Picture if you will, a rodeo. And as people enter, there is a group burning the flag.
Or worse, how about a bunch of Muslim Americans, buring the US flag at the funeral of one of our falling soldiers.
It’s not free speech, it’s an attempt to incite a riot.
How about desecration of private or public property. A flag is part of that property.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag
Should be an automatic 2 year sentence to prison. No parole, no time off for good behavior. Make little rocks out of big rocks.
I disagree and he’ll have a good time enforcing this in court.
That's just because he's a nice guy.
If the whole Trump thing doesn't work out, those dudes will be praying for jail.
No, we don’t need to revise the Constitution.
We need to revise the definition of “protected speech”.
Burning a US flag is a hate crime against Americans. If we’re going to have hate crime laws, we might as well make use them for good.