Panache

Alright, I know y'all are out there somewhere. Why should flag burning be illegal?

FallingPianos

It shouldn't.

unless the flag is someone else's property.

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The silenced majority

First I don't think flag burning should be illegal.


Second, more to the point I'd like to make, I am totally knocked over by the outright audacity displayed by somebody who would burn the American flag in one hand, all the while relying on their constitutional rights to "protect" them; when the flag itself, for all intensive purposes, represents the Constitution & Bill of Rights.

Our Constitution and inherent Bill of Rights is really what makes this nation the greatest on earth.

The American flag is the banner that represents this truly great "nation".


Please don't burn the flag.

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Panache

Exactly. I love the fact that the only reason someone in the US is free to burn the Flag is because of the Freedom that the flag represents.

The irony goes both ways though. The only way to protect the flag from getting burned is to betray the Liberty it represents. It breaks my heart to think that people would keep people from destroying the symbol of Liberty by destroying the real thing.

If our nation made it illegal to say anything bad about Freedom of Speech, I wouldn't know whether to laugh for the irony or cry for the shame.

SixStringHero

Pretty much sums it up.

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mikhail

A flag is flag you can call it a symbol or whatever but a symbol can change meaning anytime I.e the swastika.The American flag can mean freedom liberty whatever but it could become the oppersite.

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Sergeant Stinger1

Our Countrys Flag means much more to me than a piece of cloth.
To me it represents, Freedom, Strength and Courage.
Just because some men in the Supreme Court said its ok to burn my Countrys flag, it doesn't really mean $HIT to me.
I have no problem kicking someones A$$ if I see them burning MY Countrys flag.
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MY Countrys Flag is sacred to me.
F---- the laws, They have to many of them anyway.

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Psychoclown

I find flag burning to be repugnant. I see someone burning a flag, it makes me want to kick the sh!t out of them. The flag represents a country I love and freedoms that I cherish.

That said, I find surpressing those cherished freedoms to be even more repugnant than burning a symbolic piece of cloth. I might want to fight you if you burn a flag, but I'll also fight for your right to do so.

I've always said the day they ban flag burning is the day I burn one. Because on that day, the flag would no longer represent what I love and cherish.

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Travelsonic

I really can't wait for you to take your own words to heart and **** with the wrong person.


Freedoms go both ways, after all.

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independent_thinker2002

Let me get this straight. The symbol of the rule of law is more important that the rule of law itself? Incredible!

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