Flag Burning
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Simonbubly
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i say yay as well, it's important to realize that it's just a flag, the idea that at one time, and still to this day in some areas it is " illegal" to burn a flag is silly in my opinion. i understand that a flag stands for an ideal and all of that, but at
he end of the day, it's just a flag.
he end of the day, it's just a flag.
http://www.maddad.org/flag.htm
I wrote on flag burning several years ago.
I wrote on flag burning several years ago.
yay: freedom of expression; showing your dislike towards a country's actions.
Fraggle Rocker
Staff member
People must be allowed to express their emotions, even nasty ones like hatred. It does no good, and often does great harm, to prohibit the honest expression of any kind of emotion. (I'm not sure that sociopathy even counts as an emotion, so prohibiting cries of "Fire!" in a crowded theater can reasonably be prohibited.)
When you suppress expression of emotion, it can go into several places. It can just fester inside the person who's trying hard not to express it, until one day it explodes. Or the person can quietly find others who agree with him and form a clandestine group that never has to undergo public review so they can get pretty crazy.
As someone famous once said, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
When you suppress expression of emotion, it can go into several places. It can just fester inside the person who's trying hard not to express it, until one day it explodes. Or the person can quietly find others who agree with him and form a clandestine group that never has to undergo public review so they can get pretty crazy.
As someone famous once said, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
http://www.maddad.org/flag.htm
I wrote on flag burning several years ago
Yeah i know, i read that here while back.
I wrote on flag burning several years ago
Yeah i know, i read that here while back.
Flag burning is part of a wider issue regarding destructive dissent that we have in the United States. I say that the recent trend of protesters having to petition to hold a demonstration, and being corralled into specific zones, so that the demonstration can be only so big, and surrounded by concrete barriers and police beforehand are solid steps toward solving this problem.
Does anyone still think we're not living in a police state? It’s within our government’s legal power now to sweep you off of the street, lock you away with no charges, and tell no one for however long they deem necessary if you burn a flag. To my knowledge we're not at the point that they've decided to do that, but the current administration's whims are now all that stand between it being a grim fantasy and a reality.
Does anyone still think we're not living in a police state? It’s within our government’s legal power now to sweep you off of the street, lock you away with no charges, and tell no one for however long they deem necessary if you burn a flag. To my knowledge we're not at the point that they've decided to do that, but the current administration's whims are now all that stand between it being a grim fantasy and a reality.