Our Flag Was Still There - Democratic Underground

dave29

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Fri Jun-30-06 09:23 AM
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Our Flag Was Still There

Flags are symbols. They are ideas. They are a visual representation of all that we can be, good or bad.

You can't destroy a symbol. Burn down a church... another is built. Burn a flag, another proudly waves.

Burning a symbol is a way to protest, and exercize ones right to free speech. Free speech being another one of those crazy "ideas" in the constitution. Banning flag burning is = to banning free speech. They are equal, and therefore protected as a right in the constitution.

Burning a flag does not kill the idea of America. Banning free speech does.

I would die for someone's right to burn the flag.

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genie_weenie

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Fri Jun-30-06 09:32 AM
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1. A Flag is a piece of cloth

IMO, all those men who died to "Protect the Colors" died wasted lives. Values & Morals are worth protecting but in our crazy world we have a tendency to misattach those vales to the symbol. And then the symbol takes becomes that which it is suppossed to represent. The symbol is meaningless a Flag is nothing but a piece of cloth.

And I burn the Flag to make those who venerate the power of the Government to Rule and Abuse the people upset...

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jedicord

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Fri Jun-30-06 09:32 AM
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2. We're not burning flags over here, they're burning them over there.

That statement actually from a Republican friend of mine.

Shows how out of step the guys in Washington are with the people.

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Hugin

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Fri Jun-30-06 09:34 AM
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3. I have no problem with it as long as it's their own flag burnt...

If not there are already laws on the books to deal with the act.

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lonestarnot

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Fri Jun-30-06 09:38 AM
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4. Hasn't Congress wasted enough time debating this issue and now

it's here. Yawn.

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