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KnaveRupe (700 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:01 AM Original message |
A Flag-burning Amendment would, by definiton, be constitutional. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. This is symbolic political speech by its very definition. |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Unless it is banned by changing the constitution to ban it. n/t |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 11:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. We could also pass a constitutional ammendment to make the Republican |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 12:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. True, but then |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 12:29 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. It would make us far right |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 01:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Well, yes, but before 1860, slavery was "constitutional" also but |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
2. nice idea... burnable flags |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. Wonderful idea. Can I go in with you and start producing 51 star flags |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Burn Union Jacks |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
4. This makes me wonder where the flag making industry falls on the issue. |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. You mean the Chinese??? |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. ROTFLMAO -- perhaps the "growth industry" of the new |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. How about an ammendment banning handguns? |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 12:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. Yes. By definition. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. I had the same idea |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
8. Define "flag." |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 09:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Burn a replica? No - according to current statute, but |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 01:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Another hypothetical -- let's say I project an image of a |
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Lowell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
9. This should never pass |
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Caution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yeah set precedent for passage of amendments that undermine |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
13. From what I can gather from a "Google" search, somewhere |
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genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
14. Hell, Bush has disgraced the Flag more than any burning |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
15. Nice to see you so willing to give away our freedom of speech |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
17. let 'em make it illegal |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
18. Have you read the 'amendment'? It is one sentence, granting Congress |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
19. should a "stupid non-issue" be in the constitution then? |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
24. So should we arrest those old vets at the VA that retire flags? |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
25. the flag is a symbol, |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
26. Darn, I was gonna put Bush's face on a swastika flag and |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 01:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. For those of us with a bone to pick with the South, can we |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-16-06 03:37 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I would hesitate if I were you. |
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