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Forum Post: If burning the US flag gets you in a tizzy,...

Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 31, 2011, 10:48 p.m. EST by opensociety4us (914) from Norwalk, CT
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then you're probably not fit to be a citizen of the nation that was intended by the US Constitution.

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[-] 7 points by BlueRose (1437) 12 years ago

Yep, tell that to Ron Paul.

[-] 3 points by XaiverBuchsIV (508) 12 years ago

Let's watch the wingnuts shit themselves ...

[-] 4 points by BlueRose (1437) 12 years ago

Makes me want to ask him why he's burning the flag, what is he protesting? This certainly gets my attention.

[-] -1 points by JPB950 (2254) 12 years ago

He brings to mind the phrase mouth breathing knuckle dragger.

[-] 0 points by XaiverBuchsIV (508) 12 years ago

Watching the wingnuts shit themselves ... LOL

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[-] 4 points by shoozTroll (17632) 12 years ago

Not to worry, it's a Chinese flag.

[-] 3 points by aahpat (1407) 12 years ago

We are all just stars in a burning flag....

[-] 2 points by Tiberious (3) 12 years ago

I've stood by this movement all the way until this issue. I don't really care what point anyone says they're trying to make. As soon as my countries flag is being burned I stop listening to anything else they have to say. I'm far from the only one that feels this way. Give the news channels videos of people calling themselves Occupy-whatever and burning flags and you can kiss any hope, ANY hope, of getting our message across goodbye. You'll be handing our enemies an easy victory because you just had to "make a point" in the most asinine way possible.

[-] 1 points by GypsyKing (8708) 12 years ago

Burning a flag was the stupidest thing this movement has ever done. I had hoped it was a prvocatur that did it. If we did i,t than we're not ready to lead a serious political movement.

[-] 1 points by bensdad (8977) 12 years ago

No matter where you stand on this issue, you must see the Penn & Teller routine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NymRecFWgAs

[-] 1 points by aahpat (1407) 12 years ago

The flag is a symbol of American freedom. It is not referenced or protected by any Constitutionally guaranteed rights as American free political speech is protected by the first Amendment.

Political free speech and expression is an actual Constitutionally enumerated American freedom.

Laws against burning the flag as a form of political speech and expression curtail the actual First Amendment right of American people to freely express their political speech in order to protect a symbol that is not mentioned in the Constitution at all.

Flag protection laws curtail the First Amendment to protect a symbol of the First Amendment.

It makes perfect sense that ronpaul supports flag burning laws because everything that libertarians say and do requires a high degree of cognitive dissonance to accept.

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[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 12 years ago

If Occupy can't get its fringe elements under control then those fringe elements will define Occupy in the minds of mainstream Americans. Which will further radicalize Occupy, because the whole thing will become less attractive to the mainstream and more attractive to radical, fringe elements.

Martin Luther King Jr referred to it as "purification".

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=100

[-] 0 points by ropeknot (359) 12 years ago

I agree !

I believe in the 1st amendment , but I don't know that I would burn the American flag .

I may not like what America has turned into , but I love the America that the flag stands for .

What's this guys' problem ; misunderstanding ?

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 12 years ago

I personally don't even care if anybody burns the flag. It's just a symbol. It doesn't offend me. It's just counterproductive.

[-] -1 points by FuckTheUSA (2) 11 years ago

Burn The Flag! Down With The USA!

[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 11 years ago

Fuck - YOU - Down with losers - Down with white collar crime - Down with corrupt politicians - Down with CorpoRAT Shills.

[-] 1 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 11 years ago

Fuck - YOU.

Down with criminal corpoRATions - Down with corrupt politicians.