In yet another waste of our nation's time, congress has introduced another proposed constitutional amendment, this time to outlaw the burning of the American flag. Aside from the fact that I have never seen an American flag being burned on US soil (and I doubt anyone else has), this is without a doubt protected political speech, covered under the first amendment.
I think that most times someone burns the American flag, whatever their cause may be, they alienate other citizens so quickly that nobody will take them seriously. Besides, the type of person who will burn the flag will do so whether the law allows it or not. But we don't need a law against this. Flags are very rarely burned in a demonstration here and if people so choose, they should be allowed to set it ablaze. Maybe the federal government (gasp!) wrongfully killed, imprisoned, fill in the ____, and the victim wants to make a statement. I say, let them make it.
3 comments:
I read about this a week ago how there will be a new law against burning the flag and I'm surprised they're passing it. I am for it. It's wrong to burn any flag and to me, it shows the destruction of the U.S. There's other ways to protest instead of doing this.
This law should have been passed a long time ago. This is anti-american and if you do this, you are like a typical Muslim from the fucking Middle East.
i think congress needs something better to do
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