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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
To burn ones flag is to incite revolt, inspire hate,' breed contempt...
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So is calling the president any number of vile names, which we
can do.
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...and its the road away from Nationalism - something that is required to grow as a country. No other way to describe it. I do not think it is a liberty and the Supreme Court shouldn't overturn and allow, but they did.
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I disagree with you there, but any arguments I could come up with would simply be me disagreeing, not making a case; so I have to leave that one to opinion.
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Try and burn a flag in China and see what happens. They have way more nationalism than we have this day and something such as flag burning would probably get you executed. CHina will take over America if this trend continues.
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But isn't that what makes us better than China in respect to freedom? Or are you saying we should be more like them?
Part of the American system involves the freedom to gather in public...even for self-proclaimed Nazis in a Jewish suburb. It involves the freedom to publish pictures of the president altered to look like Adolf Hitler. It involves the freedom for people who "hate and loathe" our country to say so in public. It even involves the freedom for my mayor to stage a rally protesting the president when he spoke here, which I found to be in extremely poor taste in a public official. It involves the freedom for me to say I think said mayor-or the president himself-is an idiot.
Yes, burning a flag in China (or Nazi Germany) would get you shot. I thank God I don't live under those kinds of rules. I also get upset when I see someone burn the flag I revere, but as long as it's one they paid for themselves I'll continue to defend their
right, not privilege, to do so. The Declaration Of Independence states that our rights are God-given (or natural to us, if you don't believe in any kind of god), and that we form countries to defend those rights. If someone offends us in exercising said rights, that's our problem, as well as theirs. You can't have it both ways; either we're free, or we're not.