Subject:
|
Re: Flag Burning
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:27:10 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
242 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> We must also remember that the PROPER way to dispose of the American flag is
> to burn it, not throw it away.
>
> I think people that burn it in protest are slime (if they think so little of
> the US and are citizens, LEAVE!), but I think they have the right to do so.
Are you saying, in essence (in this thread, and, like all of us, across
many other threads), that you want to preserve, for example, your
Constitutionally-enumerated right to bear arms, but you want to curtail
someone else's Constitutionally-enumerated right to free expression? And
how would that differ from ratifying a Constitutional amendment to outlaw
hate speech, or to protect the swastika, or the crucifix, or the Star of
David? In these latter two cases, there wouldn't be a need, for instance, to
establish one faith or the other as a "state religion," since the items
themselves would be protected, as opposed to the underlying faiths.
The icons of those faiths, however, like the icon of our nation, is merely
a thing, and it is appropriately subject to freedom of expression.
Dave!
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Flag Burning
|
| "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:GGq2pA.GDv@lugnet.com... (...) American flag is (...) little of (...) to do so. (...) across (...) curtail (...) And <snip> (...) No, Tom states that he thinks does not agree with people who (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Flag Burning
|
| We must also remember that the PROPER way to dispose of the American flag is to burn it, not throw it away. I think people that burn it in protest are slime (if they think so little of the US and are citizens, LEAVE!), but I think they have the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
37 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
