Doesnt Congress have anything better 2 do

Linus wrote: Hysteria wrote: I have burned a flag. Ok, American or what? If it's American, leave our country since you don't like it.

That one seriously made me laugh out loud....

agentwhale007. wrote: The flag stands for the freedoms of Americans... Excpet the one to burn said flag in protest, that one dosen't count...

LOL!

Alright guys, keep the name calling to a minimum....

I have to go to work now, but my point is made.

Rico's Revenge wrote: The 1st Ammendment gives you a right to protest, it DOES NOT give you carte blanche to do anything you want under the guise of a "symbolic gesture."   What is symbolic about an American Citizen burning an American flag?   The symbolism that I see is that this person no longer wishes to be associated with the country and is burning his/her allegiances. Based on this, it is perceived that the "burner" no longer wishes to remain part of that country and therefore is definately NOT deserving of living here. The burning of a country's flag by its own citizens is for radical, left-wing retards who can't think of any other creative way to demonstrate their point of view and are hoping for their 15 seconds in the spotlight.    Too many people have died for that flag to allow it to be burned at a whim.

I have a really short attention span so I must have already forgotten the first few paragraphs by the time I jumped on the last one.

I dont see the burning of the flag as a call for I hate this country, I want to leave, but rather a "I dont agree with what is going on here, I am going to commit an act that will give me attention." Same goes for the people that hold rallies and clog up traffic. Sure there are probably better ways but I doubt that college students have the time or the money to employ the other means of getting attention...

I will add more but I have to jet to work. Glad to see you around a little more.

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I think are county has some dum rules. I mean even if they do get this law to pass or w/e. People well still burn flags and no one well find out.

 

I mean look at all the rules and crap we have now. It still dont stop half the people in the world from doing it. Youd have to have like police man following around every one person.

Rules and Ammendments only work some of the time people still brake them..

Yeah i probelly went of the cours of this thread.. heh i dont know what im talking about half the time. I just felt like posting something.

Thanks Hades, good to butt heads with you again!  LOL!

I need to get some stuff done as well myself.

So, you're saying you never see symbolism in protests? You've just implied that.

That's pretty doltish.

You're just asking for more of the propaganda this government is feeding this country with a serving spoon.

If you can't see symbolism in protest, you're argument that protesters are un-American has no support whatsoever.

Maybe people do just see burning a flag-but most people probably ask why, then listen to what the people are saying, and ingest that along with their government supplied halucenogenic.

The government doesn't care about what our flag stands for-there's a reason someone on this forum has/had a sig that says:

Pro-Bush=Anti-America

This government has consistently shown that it feels it's right to crack down on citizen's rights, even ones that are considered permanent. There's a reason we have a BoR. Nothing in that has become outdated yet. There's no reason to say that flag burning should be illegal-it's been done for over 200 years here.

Rather than worrying about the welfare of the citizens of the United States, our so called "representatives" have decided to take measures to reduce the power of the people. Somebody royally screwed up their priorities.

*EDIT*Bugg might have been a good forumer. Whether or not he was, Linus has not been.

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Very good.

That said, it's in an entirely different setting.

It's why we have Flag Day(which was last week, if I remember correctly).

*EDIT* Nice Linus, you just keep stabbing yourself in the back-I like people who discredit themselves.

You're welcome to make fun of me, but don't say that I shouldn't make fun of you.

That said, I did remove it, and it was innappropriate.

It was, however, also the truth.

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I don't really care what the rest of the forum thinks of you, I still think you suck. I never said you weren't Bugg, I said you actually showed some level of intelligence when you were posting under the alias of Bugg.

Show me your majority.

Somehow flag burning during the Vietnam war was OK, yet now, during our "War on Terrorism" it's not?

You'll have a hard time selling that one.

Hysteria wrote: No.  Transsexual is where you are born with BOTH sex's reproductive organs.

No that's a hermaphrodite (sp?), a transsexual is a guy that wants to be a girl, or vice versa.