2007-04-04 10:12:32 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Thank God, we're getting back to the real issues that affect all Americans. I won't have to drive around those piles of burning flags on the way home every night.
2007-04-04 10:24:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Liberty doesn't give someone the right to do whatever they want. What about my right to not hire someone based up their race? That is my personal liberty if I don't want anyone working for me that is of a specific race or religion. The government can't let people do what ever they want, there have to be laws, and there are few, if any laws everyone will agree on. Someone will claim their rights are being taken away.
Also by the way, it is legal to burn the flag if done in the right way. You still may be arrested for arson, disturbing the peace, violations of local statutes. I can't just take the sheets off my bed and burn them in the street, same goes with the American flag. It needs to be done at the right place and time, safety is a concern.
2007-04-04 10:21:55 · answer #2 · answered by Angelus2007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is a hate crime against whatever nation's flag you are burning. Just like it is illegal to burn a cross in a KKK sense, desecrate a Jewish Menorah or to dip an Iranian flag in pigs blood. "Freedom" only goes so far. When you begin to trample on the rights, beliefs and freedoms of other people, then you lose that right.
As far as disposing of the flag goes, yes you burn it but not in the same way that people do when they do it in protest.
2007-04-04 10:20:43 · answer #3 · answered by Kilroy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Liberty does not mean you are free to trample over other peoples liberties, beliefs and creeds. Burning a flag can be deeply offensive to other people and is usually done with that intention.
If you think you should be free to burn a flag then they should be free to call you all the well deserved derogatory names you deserve.
Peace comes with tolerance and understanding not ignorance and bigotry!!!
2007-04-04 10:22:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I responded to a similar question earlier:
They're just like a book. You can BURN a book, but you cannot destroy the meaning behind it.
Go rent a copy of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451."
Personally, I would not burn a flag; it doesn't adequately express my feelings, but I will defend another's right to do so.
2007-04-04 10:25:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Countless thousands of courageous boys and girls gave their lives for our liberty. They died while rallying under that same flag that some want to burn. Out of respect for the men and women that gave their lives and limbs fighting underneath that colorful bit of cloth......I choose to show it some respect
2007-04-04 10:21:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect that it isn't the actual flag burning but rather the intent to incite violence.
Isn't it ironic that some nimrod would burn the very symbol that gives them the right to do it?
If I had the deep hatred and disrespect needed to burn the country's flag that I live in - I would move to another country, But just just my opinion.
2007-04-04 10:20:35 · answer #7 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they fail to realize that one of the most patriotic things you can do is to let someone else burn a flag without punching their lights out..
freedom means the other guy is going to piss you off.. how you react to that is what defines you as an American.
2007-04-04 10:26:28 · answer #8 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Burning the flag is the only way to dispose of it properly. Shows what everyone on here knows.
So, if it was made illegal, how would old flags be disposed of?
That's a deadend question.
2007-04-04 10:17:34 · answer #9 · answered by jpferrierjr 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
If you are referring to the dip$hi+s at Yale, they just about burned down a person's home. So yeah, that should be arson at the very least.
2007-04-04 10:33:43 · answer #10 · answered by mikehunt29 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋