Flag Burning?

[Trajan12]

It may be legal, but just dont do it. IMHO anyone who burns an American flag does not deserve your freedom of speech provided to you by the government.
Anyone who hates america is an enemy of mine and is deserving of nothing but my deepest hatred and animosity.

 

[Red Stranger]

I think flag burning should be allowed, but the flag burners would have to pay the consequences for burning a flag.

 

[tomsnowman123]

Anyone who hates america is an enemy of mine and is deserving of nothing but my deepest hatred and animosity.

Do you hate Islamic Fundamentalists?

It may be legal, but just dont do it. IMHO anyone who burns an American flag does not deserve your freedom of speech provided to you by the government.

Why not?

 

[skadistic]

Do you hate Islamic Fundamentalists?

I sure as hell do.

 

[IglooDame]

It may be legal, but just dont do it. IMHO anyone who burns an American flag does not deserve your freedom of speech provided to you by the government.
Anyone who hates america is an enemy of mine and is deserving of nothing but my deepest hatred and animosity.

The government does not provide free speech.

 

[Trajan12]

Do you hate Islamic Fundamentalists?



Why not?

Yes I hate them! And yet, I pity them...


Its like the Honor System. Government gives you free speech they assume your not going to abuse it. I also think nazis, Klansman, and sex offenders should be denied these rights. But then again this is America. But on the other hand when does it stop? Are we going to have to suit the needs of everyone? We have to draw the line somewhere.

 

[Trajan12]

The government does not provide free speech.

They sure as hell defend it. Along with the Supreme court with whom I am growing Increasingly dissatisfied.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Its like the Honor System. Government gives you free speech they assume your not going to abuse it. I also think nazis, Klansman, and sex offenders should be denied these rights. But then again this is America. But on the other hand when does it stop? Are we going to have to suit the needs of everyone? We have to draw the line somewhere.

You've got it backwards. Everybody has free speech--nobody gives it to you; the government simply can't take it away.

 

[tomsnowman123]

Yes I hate them! And yet, I pity them...

So then, by your argument, they have the right to hate you?

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

While I think Flag Burning is incredibly disrespectful especially by a countries citizens, it is a form of free speech that is protected under the constitution. Free speech can't be curtailed to what is popular, so it is protected and should remain protected.

 

[Xanikk999]

While I think Flag Burning is incredibly disrespectful especially by a countries citizens, it is a form of free speech that is protected under the constitution. Free speech can't be curtailed to what is popular, so it is protected and should remain protected.

I agree it is disrespectful but free speech should prevail over what is wrong.

 

[malclave]

I think flag burning as a form of protest is reprehensible. However, it is a form of protest and therefore protected speech.

 

[Trajan12]

So then, by your argument, they have the right to hate you?

they have every right

 

[tomsnowman123]

they have every right

So how do you plan on "fixing" things if you are promoting hate?

 

[Trajan12]

You've got it backwards. Everybody has free speech--nobody gives it to you; the government simply can't take it away.

What I meant was the people who drafted the constitution assumed people would not burn the flag of the nation which provides them with these rights

 

[tomsnowman123]

What I meant was the people who drafted the constitution assumed people would not burn the flag of the nation which provides them with these rights

Do you have a source for this?

 

[JollyRoger]

What I meant was the people who drafted the constitution assumed people would not burn the flag of the nation which provides them with these rights

Why do you think they made that assumption? I'm sure many of them would have understood desecration of the British flag.

 

[Irish Caesar]

What I meant was the people who drafted the constitution assumed people would not burn the flag of the nation which provides them with these rights

I disagree. The right to burn the flag is the sort of thing they most likely wanted to protect the most.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Its a symbol of our History, Culture, Traditions and the people and should not be burned.

A History of forcing Imperial rule upon the colonies?

 

[MobBoss]

I view desecrating the Constitution as disrepectful and unpatriotic.

And yet...isnt it just a piece of paper, just like the flag is just a piece of cloth?

I would view burning the constitution the same as I view burning the flag. But using due process to add to the consitution is not being disrespectful nor unpatriotic in any way.

I most certainly do wish that the Constitution and its freedoms were taken as seriously as some people take a piece of cloth. Amending the Constitution to specifically diminish freedom of expression is absurd.

Not all expression is free, nor should it be. To openly allow anything in the name of freedom is to only invite anarchy to our nation.