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Re: American Idolatry
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:12:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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but I support the right of the people to burn the flags in protest, even if
I wouldn’t do that myself.
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This is what I’m talking about. You support the right, but wouldn’t
actually perform the action. May I ask why not?
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Because it’s a freedom of speech issue. Same as I support the right of the KKK
to march, wear silly sheets, and say mean things(1), while choosing not to
actually march, sheetify, or mean-emit with them.
Some constitutional scholar you are!
ObMeToo: I support flag burners but I won’t actually be burning *my* flags
unless I need to dispose of them properly, in which case I’ll do so privately in
a manner that will not endanger my property (unlike those fireworks I shot off
last year, but let’s not go there)
1 - subject to the tortability of any slander they may emit and the laws against
inciting to riot and so forth
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| (...) What I was driving at is: if you were to express dissatisfaction, why wouldn't you choose to burn a flag? I was never questioning the right to do it; I was questioning the wisdom of doing it. JOHN (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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