how do you feel about people burning our american flag...and knocking it off as freedom of speech??
i think it's a disgrace to my country, and if i ever see anyone doing it, i'll run em over...
2006-06-29 02:56:48 · 28 answers · asked by alfjr24 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
it was on the news yesterday...for the person asking where i am...lol
2006-06-29 03:09:16 · update #1
i guess i have to edit here...i was talking about the people who want citizenship...then go and disrespect our country, and demand rights...that is their bad...
and no, i don't think that running them over would ever get done...it's an expression...i guess some people don't get expressions anymore...
2006-06-29 04:25:52 · update #2
Yeah, it pisses me off pretty good. I don't know why they would have to do something so graphic and disrespectful to people/veterans.
2006-06-29 03:01:24 · answer #1 · answered by pjhorton31 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you aware that the largest protest involving the burning of an American flag was in May of 1932, when WWI Veterans who had been made promises for their service marched on Washington with upside-down flags and burning flags? Do veterans who fought for the freedoms of America have the right to make a political protest involving the flag?
Do you know that there have only been 12 documented cases of flag desecration since the Supreme Court decision of 1989? - That's fewer than one a year.
Do you know that the Amendment you support would be the only Amendment to the Constitution that would place a restriction on the First Amendment?
Do you know that anyone who wears a shirt with the American Flag on it is, according to the flag code, disrespecting the flag of the United States:
Here's the quotation:
"(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general."
When FOX news runs the flag in their background, their disrespecting the flag:
"(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever."
The flag is a symbol. It should be treated with the utmost respect. Anyone who desecrates the flag is making a symbolic expression. If you're pissed off about it, you're supposed to be pissed off about it.
However, the flag, worthy of its respect, is not more valuable than the Document upon which this nation is founded. The Flag is a symbol of the freedoms that the Constitution guarantees.
Isn't it ironic that you would alter the foundation of the nation for a symbol of that foundation? You are, in essence, removing a brick from the foundation and making the nation which stands upon it weaker.
Be angry. But Be Strong. The flag is much more than the cloth from which it is sewn. It will survive the anger of a protester.
It won't survive the weakening of the freedoms it symbolizes.
2006-06-29 11:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by WBrian_28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I see that flag burning, it get's by blood boiling. On the other hand let them do it. That tells you what we can do in OUR country. In this country we will let you burn our flag even though it pisses people off, because we think more of the freedom. I never see people burning the flag anyway, where ARE you. I mean come on are you watching people DISPOSE of the flag, not BURNing it. What I question is why we let people put the flag upside down and don't they have a CLUE what it means. It DOESN'T mean the country is going in the wrong direction. It means you are in DISTRESS. As in YOU PERSONALLY, not the country.
2006-06-29 10:07:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some people religion is stronger that nationalism, therefore if a Janeist who believe all life is sacred saw you step on a bug should they run you over? How about this one say your kid drew a American flag, And when it came time to throw some burgers on the grill you had nothing around but that piece of paper that had the flag drawn on it, would you sacrifice the burgers or the flag?
2006-06-29 10:09:02 · answer #4 · answered by ranger12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it disgusting that anyone would burn the flag unless they were disposing of a torn or damaged flag properly, but I feel the right to free speech is more important than my emotions on the issue. They are not harming individuals and it is a form of expression. Again, I don't like seeing it, but I believe our constitution does support it.
Running someone over is harming another individual, and hardly an effective way to handle the issue.
2006-06-29 10:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by Garth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make me want to burn a flag just to annoy you.
This is more explanation than you warrant, but:
Has it ever occurred to you that flag burning is an effective way to protest the actions of a government.? That burning a flag does not mean one hates one's country. Government. Country. There is a difference. You DO understand that, right?
Did it ever occur to you that, by simply burning a flag, the burner provokes more patriotism than a dozen windbag politicians pontificating about the flag? Porbably not.
Did it ever occur to you that expression is a form of speech?
How about this one? Did it occur to you that its just a darn piece of cloth, and that burning a flag will not in itself destroy a country?
Freedom means the freedom to disagree, and to express unpopular opinions. Y'know, the kinda thing so many of the neocons want to bring to Iraq but can't seem to tolerate from their own neighbors?
Even despite Bush's best efforts, we aren't quite yet a totalitarian dictatorship.
Run me over, huh?
Pipsqueak.
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So, that's one "run them over" and one "kill them where they stand." Pretty bold from behind a keyboard.
If they'll kill you (which I very much think they lack the guts to do) over a piece of cloth, what else do they think you should be "killed" for? Nazis.
2006-06-29 12:10:19 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. October 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about what you just said. Burning a flag...which is quite legal...is disgraceful. But you're going to run them over...which is cold blooded premeditated murder...which is illegal. One of the great things about our country is freedom of speech and expression. Yes sometimes people make it bad, but we have to express our disagreement and tolerate it, because if we eliminate their freedoms, we eliminate ours as well. It's a double edged sword.
2006-06-29 10:30:37 · answer #7 · answered by J Somethingorother 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK I do not know why "people like you" (no offense meant) really make such a big deal over things like that. It is just a damn flag. If I was out of toilet paper and there was nothing but a flag near me I would wipe with it. It is just some fabric. THE FLAG DOES NOT MAKE THE COUNTRY, THE PEOPLE MAKE THE COUNTRY. get it straight, the flag means nothing...
2006-06-29 10:06:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I does piss me off to see people burning our flag ect.
Nobody seems to appreciate the freedoms they have here in America. I know it's not perfect here but there is not going to be such a thing as a perfect society.
2006-06-29 10:02:34 · answer #9 · answered by classic_tigger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who worship flags and insist on hurting other people for damaging their own property should be whipped with a cane 1,000 times after being forced to recite the First Amendment to the Constitution aloud 1,000 times in public.
2006-06-29 10:06:31 · answer #10 · answered by reluctant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is their right to, though i personally feel against burning of a flag just soley because i would be arrested for burning my t-shirt on main street but i support other desacrations of the flag though i do not condone it, ya it pisses me off a little but i still wish to protect the rights of others or that flag will soon stand for corruption
2006-06-29 10:01:14 · answer #11 · answered by hornychiken 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋