Dismantling Of The Flag

At Hampshire College in Massachusetts, it has been decided to put away Old Glory following several flag burnings leading up to and including veterans day.

How ironic that it was, that in an area so close by, in Baltimore during the war of 1812 that the Star Spangled Banner was dedicated. No matter the onslaught, nor the turmoil that surrounded that large flag, our banner still flew.
Now, all it takes is a small group of dissidents to not only lower our flag, but make it disappear from our halls of education.

A true testimony of the degradation of American patriotism. ..............

 

If people in authority still had balls, they'd expel the flag burners and riff raff. If they can't expel them for flag burning because of the first amendment, do it for arson.

 

I do whole heartedly agree but the American flag, any American flag is the most expensive banner in the world. The fact that it still flys tells the story of so many patriots who gave their lives for it.

One life is priceless let alone the thousands upon thousands who died that our flag and the freedoms that it represents would prevail.

 

This Is Why It’s Legal to Burn the American Flag

"The Supreme Court declared on June 11, 1990, that laws against desecrating the flag are unconstitutional".

 

That collage was for the children that were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and never heard the word NO. So when they don’t get their ways they react like a child going through a temper tantrum. It did not go their way so everyone else is wrong. When I would throw a temper tantrum my father help me understand and it hurt for a short time. They should send a motor cycle group to educate these cry babies.

 

Okay, now Trump has apparently done it again. He tweeted that flagburners should have to face either a loss of citizenship or a year in jail. Every liberal in the nation is hammering away at the newly elected president saying that he now wants to take away free speech.

Before I go any further with this, allow me to mention that saying you're going to do something and actually doing something are as different as night and day. There's no real law that prosecutes a person who says, "I'd like to kill him", but there are laws that prosecute people for actually doing it. To me, it should be the same with the emblem of the United States. Say you want to burn it, go ahead and say it but the minute the match hits the cloth I'm all for stomping out the flame along with a few fingers.
There, I just exercised my 1st amendment right and wrote what I truely believe.

Now, back to the topic at hand. The liberals who absolutely adore Hillary and are persecuting Trump for his stance on flag burning seem to forget that in 2005, the then Senator Clinton introduced a bill that made flag burning an illegal act with a sentence of 1 year AND a 100K fine. Obviously, the bill suffered a "thumbs down".

Secondary to the Clinton thing, while the liberals are condeming Trump for his OPINION on the matter they are also denying Donald T. his constitutional right to free speech. Just because someone has been elected to become the president doesn't mean they must suddenly lose their own moral and ethical standards and operate like some political robot.
I want a human behind the presidential desk, not a puppet like the idiot who is preparing to leave office.

Just sayin'.

 

Well said and correction accepted. Perhaps I should have been a tad less linear with my statement and approached it with a more qualitative quality.

Albeit what you have written is true, it does make my case (and others) even better. If ANY part of free speech can be considered to be against the law, then how can a reflection of free speech ie the unceremonious burning the flag, be touted as legal?
I do understand how threatening the leader of our country with death could be construed as a hostile act but then how is it not a hostile act by burning the legitimate standing emblem of the entire citizenry of the United States?

But then, I do suppose that making it illegal to harm a representation of the original flag an issue, a law would have to made protecting a copy of the Bill of Rights, a copy of the Constitution or even the Bible.
Hmmmm......Lord knows a person can lose his head by messing with the Quran.

Okay, I know............I'm going from the sublime to the ridiculous but it was a good punt.

 

The larger picture here is that the flag burners are looking for a reaction but the reaction they are getting is largely negative towards them and will eventually turn violent.
While they think that they are standing up for something by exhibiting hatred and violence, in reality they are provoking an opposing amount of the same. It's Newton's action/reaction theme but the reaction is going to get moi mas dangerous in the end with no equal coming into the mix.

The best way to keep from blowing things up when in possession of a stick of dynamite is to not light the fuse.
In this case, in order to keep a whole bunch of people getting seriously hurt, they might nip this in the bud and make burning the flag illegal or make it hard to light the fuse as it were.

To me, Supreme Court be derned, but let's really look into the future and see what the probabilities really are.
My goodness, even the speed limits look into the probabilities of the future so why can't a bunch of politicians see ....................oh well. time for my meds.........Honey! Do we still have any....................? no dern it! Gotta settle for tea and a pipe of vanilla custard Cavendish.

 

True you! SCOTUS is only supposed to pass down the interpretation of the constitution as it might apply to a bill. They're not supposed to make law, nor is the president but to me it's another excuse for congress to have to do as little as possible.
Hopefully, a change is taking place and everyone can do what they were initially hired to do.

 

@Ken Anderson "so that the destruction of it would be a felony."

Intentional burning of any private property may very likely be, as Arson.