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Re: Flag Burning...
"David Downey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Although I agree that the U.S flag should not be burned (and yes I am
>also a veteran having served 8 years in the U.S Armed Forces), I can see
>other floks points in allowing the flag to be burned. I will never
>support it, yet since I served to keep the ability to choose a freedom
>that we enjoy, I do not oppose that sentiment.
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression
for people we despise, we don't believe in
it at all." - Noam Chomsky
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she
is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be
a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose
outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about
her, and admit censorship." - E. M. Forster
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend
to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
The question that needs to be asked is, what does that flag represent that
is being burned? Does it represent the constitutional republic and respect
for individual liberty that America was founded upon? Or does it represent
the socialist democracy and the arbitrary herd mentality view of "freedom"
into which America has devolved?
If the latter, then pass me the gasoline and the matches.
An American