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Subject: 
Re: Flag Burning
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:41:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Stephen Rusnak writes:

I think people that burn [The Flag] 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?

No, Tom states that he thinks does not agree with people who want to
burn the flag, but agrees that they have the right to do so if they
desire.  He does not want to curtail their right to free expression.

  Well, mine was a somewhat rhetorical question, though not obviously so.
However, he (Tom, I apologize for addressing you in 3rd person this way, but
we're working with our interpretations of your post, rather than your
input--please feel free to correct us!) states that people who choose to
exercise their right to free expression should "LEAVE," so how would this be
different from me saying that anyone who wants to own a gun is free to do so
but is slime and should LEAVE the country?

     Dave!



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  Re: Flag Burning
 
(...) It's exactly the same. And there are Americans who feel both of those sentiments. That's one of the things that makes/made us strong. Chris (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  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)

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