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Originally posted by dig420
I don't want to burn flags. I want to have the RIGHT to burn flags if I choose to do so.
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so burn a few.... I'm sure if you warm yourself by a nice fireplace fueled with US flags at your home, the flag burning police are not going to come and cart you off. The problems start when the hippie crackheads feel they need to make some sort of "statement" by standing on the White House lawn burning flags to show how stupid they are.
but hey.... you're free to burn away in the comfort of your own home... I'm reasonably sure you won't be arrested.
After all, that's what you said you wanted right? You want to
be able to burn one of you so choose....? Well burn away....
oh wait.... that's no good because then no one will SEE you burning it. That's the whole point isn't it.... to be SEEN burning it in your act of defiance and disrespect. Burning it at home doesn't help.... you want the right to burn it in Times Square.
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Originally posted by dig420
I also want to have the right to burn a picture of Ronald Reagan if I choose to do so. I want to have the right to say my government is wrong. I want to have the right to read books that the government doesn't like.
There is NO DIFFERENCE between outlawing the burning of a piece of cloth because of it's symbolic content and outlawing a book because of it's symbolic content (1984).
It's a very small step from making desecrating a flag illegal to making public dissent illegal. oh but OF COURSE only us hippies have anything to fear right? THe government would NEVER do anything to bother right thinking mericans such as yourself. (Patriot Act, Tips, those are all aimed at hippies and muslims, they'd NEVER tap anyone else's phone)
There's no difference between banning flag-burning for it's disrespectful nature and throwing Rage Against the Machine in jail for their disrepectful music. It's a slippery slope, if you give them an inch they'll take a mile.
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your point is noted.... but not
everything is a slippery slope. People are too damn paranoid.