i know it's a very touchy topic, but why should burning the flag be illegal? my blog friend lobster boy posted about it. he's a bit more conservative then me, and we don't always agree. but the flag burning thing baffles me. i don't want to piss anyone off and i know people get every heated on the topic. but when people say things like, "my father fought in a war to defend that flag", i think, why would anyone risk their lives for some colored bits of cloth sewn together? i mean, love your country, but don't die for a flag or a decal.and it seems to me that it goes against everything we have fought for in this country, things like freedom. to arrest anyone for burning a flag, unless it's stolen property, what are you arresting them for?
lobster boy quotes folks who say, "i'd never burn a flag, but other people should have the right to do so." and though we are coming from different sides of the debate, i tend to agree with his calling them cowards, but for different reasons. i say, "i might burn a flag someday, because i feel so strongly about having the freedom to do so."
the flag represents different things to different people. so how can you qualify that in a constitutional ammendment?
hhmmm.........besides my lobster pal, i am not sure what kind of responses i might get on this post. ah well....... let's see how this one goes. it could end up a heated debate like the sauerkraut in cabbage rolls blog a few months back!
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It's all so silly and exactly like the Sanctity of Marriage Acts, transparently designed to get people arguing so they forget what an incompetent, economically diastrous and morally bankrupt administration has done to our beloved country.
It's also like outlawing Gay Marriage in that it allows sanctimonious assholes to deny someone else a basic freedom in the name of a principle the assholes don't even honor themselves.
There are so many things to be challenged, even our constitution is up for challenge. Why can we not have 1 representation of our country be off limits?
It has always be raised to symbolize America, so why would an American want to burn it? Question it, argue it, debate it, but why burn it?
How many thousands have people have wept to see that flag? Either to finally to be able to return home, or to be freed from injustice, such as Auschwitz.
Would the moon landing have been the same, if Neil Armstrong had just waived?
Thousands have given their lives to defend freedom, and that 1 symbol should not be destroyed, by the people who sit on their lazy butts and do nothing for freedom, except question it, and test its limits.
A little respect is not too much to ask.
can respect be forced? should i be legally required to respect an inanimate object?
what if i make my own flag, buy the cloth and sew it myself? am i legally required to respect that as well?
respect should not forced by a constitutional ammendment.
The way an American feels seeing the Capitol mall full of Pro-life Marchers may either be uplifting or scary depending on your personal beliefs, but the state of the monument at the time does not affect its signifigance. If you asked, "Should people be able to trash the monument itself, or burn a flag sewn by Betsy Ross?" The answer would be no, obviously. A shitty Chinese produced Walmart Flag does not inspire the same awe in me, it gets the same respect as the campus curtains down at the frat house or Dog the Bounty Hunter's sweaty tank top. It is what it is in the context it is.
Again, I maintain the Repubs have brought this issue up as a slobbery tennis ball to call the dogs off their disastrous last term.
Yeah, pretty much. The symbol at the time represented a victory of sorts over the Soviets at a high point in the cold war space race, not simple patriotism. Is the American flag waiving over the Guantanamo prison representing the exact same feeling that Armstrong had on the moon? It was and is still a symbol. I actually admire the flag, I just think prohibition of destroying a symbol and an individual's private property (even the symbol which supposedly represents the freedom to do such an act), being codified into law can lead us down a very slipery slope.
Glittergirl, was that cabbage roll debate ever resolved? What was the verdict?
tlm- the cabbage debate rages on....
can't we all just get along????
hahahaha!