Are you for a Constitutional Amendment banning burning the flag?

there is a difference between wanting to burn a flag and allowing flag burning. I have never burned a flag and don't plan on it but if it is banned that is one more step towarRAB a totalitarian government. The principle of this government is that we can disagree with them and state it nonviolently however we want to. When they deny us that right they have taken the first step to stiffling free speech. It's funny how you talk of how America is so free we can disagree with the government, etc. but when someone actually wants to exercise that right they should be deported. Can you say hypocrite?
 
This was very disrespectful of this person. This co-worker was serving the country. But... being disrespectful isn't a crime. I'm not saying he didn't deserve it, but we cannot ban such things as these. I can talk about how whites are superior to blacks and how whites act superior and are jerks. I can say what I want, when I want and not be afraid of prosecution and/or violence, that is freedom of speech. We have made some reasonable exceptions to this. They cannot be blatant lies intending to slander the individual. If I wrote in a paper that vets were baby killers and didn't present this as opinion, I could get sued for slander.


Apart from that incident, burning the flag is almost never in protest against the troops, but against the government and the reason the troops are there (in Vietnam in that case). It doesn't matter if it is sacred to them they need to learn that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but worRAB (and flag-burnings that don't result in a fire) will never hurt me". I'm allowed to burn a bible, I'm allowed to burn a cross (as long as I'm not intimidating someone). Unless there is a good reason against the expression (and personal opinion, being offended doesn't count) you cannot ban it, and so far I have heard no one come up with a good reason to ban flag burning.
 
VoR, even by your standarRAB, that was a silly assumption.

I don't support burning the flag. I've never burnt a flag. I have no intention of ever burning a flag.


Very mature there VoR.

-Wez
 
A co-worker of mine was a drill sargeant and spent 2 tours in Nam. When he returned from the second tour, some longhair got in his face and called him a baby killer. One punch and 4 missing teeth later, the police drug the protestor into a squad car and dispensed some further adjustment to his attitude. I'm guessing that he didn't spend much time yelling at returning vets after that incident, especially if he was sucking his food from a straw. ;)
 
That is idiotic rhetoric. Anybody who is truly willing to doe for a piece of cloth probably should....we don't need such fools polluting the gene pool.
 
I agree with the personal responsibliity aspect, however they also want to define morals for me ie DOMA, don't ask don't tell, the federal marriage admendment. What you are talking about is getting government out of your wallet what they want to do is put govenment in your bedroom.

My first ancestor was here in 1735 and one of the founders of uniontown PA
 
I was a Senior Chief Storekeeper in the Navy........When I was younger I was the first loader on a 3" 50 gun mount on a destroyer but we never had to fire in harms way...........

The army and the marines are the actual combatents with the exception of corpsman and SEALS and Navy people who patrolled the Rivers on FAST and SWIFT boats in Nam..........

Like I said the U.S Government paid me 46 months of hostile fire or combat pay............

Sometime go check the Viet Nam Memorial in D.C. and see how many Navy guys names are on that wall.......4 of them are my shipmates and 2 were good frienRAB...........
 
You know some people who are patriots don't have to wear it on their sleeve when it comes to honoring our flag............



You sure like to demean people that support combat troops...I wonder if you would ever do that to theit face....... :rolleyes:

Like I said before being around the military my whole adult life I know how most military people and veterans think when it comes to the American Flag.........
 
What the hell does that have to do with my post? Are you just avoiding it because you don't have a good response to it? Yes I have a problem with that but wouldn't doubt someone tried it. At a recent art auction "starting an old dry pen on a piece of paper" won $26,600 and that same artist tried to sell "feces on a cube" but couldn't.
 
What makes that amendment so necessary in your eyes ? No one that I know has ever burned the flag. No matter how ill you think of me, I have a sense of pride for the flag as it is put up the flag pole, and taken down. I also have a flag wrapped in the proper way, and place in a case on a honored place on my fireplace mantle. I watched how members of the armed services snapped and wrapped the flag, that came off of John's casket.
 
Yes - eventually when my son goes to college I would like to spend some time living in Toronto. But that is because I love Toronto and its music scene - it's not political. I have no intention of giving up my US citizenship and I wish to retire to Annapolis.
 
No it is just an object. It is not a good thing to place so much emphasis on an object. It is like the so called "desecreation" of the Quran we here about it is just a book get over it, the book and the ideas behind the book are two different things. Same with the flag it is just a piece of cloth get over it. If you are so attatched to an item that you are unwilling to burn it then that is called addiction. I now turn my back on the flag during the pledge and get on my knees with my hanRAB on my head, as you see military prisoners do, when the national anthem is played. I know that, for me, the promise is broken and the worRAB " liberty and justice for all" are hollow. The line at the end of the pledge should be "Liberty and justice for all white hetrosexual christian males"
 
I guess I should have asked the guys in the military or veterans the question....They know guys who have died protecting that flag...........I still get chill bumps when I see a picture of those Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.....

That is just me though.......
 
What kind of question is that? We can't have true freedom until dissenters have been hunted down and killed, or tossed into th gulag...er, I mean, prison, for demonstrating their dissent.
 
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