Besides an American liberal??? (Either personally or reported on the news.)
Is this legal to do in other parts of the world?
Who else would want to burn their home flag?
Provide links
2007-09-12 06:28:37 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/184238/peace_protestors_in_portland_burn_an.html
2007-09-12 06:31:40 · update #1
Information- REALLY?? Did you look at the link? This is just ONE example. Would you like more?
2007-09-12 06:32:35 · update #2
Fretless- Great answer..... So in other words, you just dont know or care. Always good to know that you can be depended on for.... Well nothing....
2007-09-12 06:34:06 · update #3
Rja.....If you read the post, these liberals werent retiring a flag but nice try....
2007-09-12 06:35:16 · update #4
IS THIS HOW YOU LIBS SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS?
2007-09-12 06:37:43 · update #5
FRETLESS- Sorry hero but Im a vet too and have actually been to Saudi, Kuwait and Iraq. How about you hero?
2007-09-12 06:45:02 · update #6
FRETLES- Wannabes dont mean much on the internet. Lemme guess, you were attached to SEAL-06 during the Battle of Gettysburg?....
2007-09-12 06:47:48 · update #7
FRETLESS- Ok, I take it back, my hats off to you. I have nothing but respect for bubbleheads.
2007-09-12 06:58:09 · update #8
I have only seen it happen one time. I was still in the Coast Guard back then. As I had just gotten out of the hospital from injuries during a rescue it upset me a lot. I was with several shipmates who would not let me burn the bum burning my countries flag. They reminded me that part of the reason to wear the uniform was to stand up to allow fools the right to jack their jaw. Four days later later some fool spit on me and called me a baby killer. I was in uniform awaiting to board an aircraft to make a school. Why is it that some people think the first amendment gives them and only them the right to have, hold, or express opinions and in a way that is darn offensive in manner.
Just once I would like to have the right to answer in kind.
2007-09-12 06:48:52 · answer #1 · answered by Coasty 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My answer will probably not be what you expect but i believe that is the best one can come up with. First i am against burning the flag, i believe certain things are sacred and the flag is one of them. that being said, I am not sure the idea is entirely liberal many conservatives with law knowledge will tell you that they have a hard time going against it. why? because of the laws of our constitution. Whether or not the law is being miss used or miss interpreted is another story. the fact remains that their is articles in the constitution that allows for freedom of speech and expression and like it or not (i don't) burning the flag would be considered one of them.
2007-09-12 06:41:48 · answer #2 · answered by caliguy_30 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Boy Scouts do it all the time, with great & serious intent.
It is a freedom that the US has. I don't apporove of it, other than Boy Scouts retiring worn flags, but it is part of freedom.
Personally, I think they people who do that need to go try to live in another country...if they get torked off there, see how long they will stay out of jail if they do the same thing!
2007-09-12 06:37:02 · answer #3 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen anyone burn a flag since I was a little kid and the Vietnam war was going on (and they didn't want to be forced to go fight a war they didn't support).
I think this is a do-nothing issue the Republican party tries to get endless mileage out of. You can't be criticized or lose votes for a law that affects NOBODY!!!
PS: I have a problem with people who make posts and then 20 comments arguing with people who answer. Means you didn't state your case to begin with.
2007-09-12 06:44:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
International flag desecration facts
Australia allows flag burning
Canada allows it
Danish penal law prohibits burning other countries' flags but you can burn the Dannebrog (Danish flag)
England law doesn't cover flag burning but it is a concept that is debated in Northern Ireland
I would list the rest for you but you're obviously a "learned scholar" on the subject. I'll post a link anyway.
2007-09-12 07:00:12 · answer #5 · answered by Deep Thought 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i do no longer think of flag burning is a super deal. it truly is extremely insulting sure.. yet no person has the recommendations-blowing to tell somebody else to no longer do it. additionally... Why is a majority of those extremely-nationalist idiots continually get mad whilst somebody burns a f*cking flag or sits for the period of the national anthem yet turn a blind I to each and all the bullsh*t this united states of america pulls worldwide huge and interior this is own borders?... possibly the guy who burns a flag is doing so as to show human beings's interest to issues that would desire to be corrected. As no longer person-friendly because it possibly for those media cradled morons to have faith, some human beings awaken in morning and rejoice being human and being alive, no longer being american... and once you think of like which you relish ALL of humanity for what it truly is and not for human beings's nationality..... so in the experience that your government abuses this is own human beings or foreigners and you do no longer like it, then sure... burn the flag To all of us who reported infantrymen who died for our freedom. i myself do sense for the infantrymen who've given their lives thinking they have been protecting the U.S. , yet their deaths are not a clarification for me to pretend that the U.S. is a utopia with a proper government. this is actual the different... whilst human beings DIED for something to be a definite way and destiny generations of politians trample their efforts, then you definately enable be everyday in any way achievable.
2016-11-10 05:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Way to go with your totally unbiased "Question". If you want to make a statement or diatribe full of lies and clap trap go for it but don't pose it as a question?
You obviously don't watch much news. People in countries burn their flag and ours every once in awhile. They just want attention. By getting all huffy and pushed out of shape because they do it plays right into their hands. Attention is what they crave. If they are ignored they stop doing it.
I have seen people burn flags, not all were liberals either you idiot, and as a veteran I was upset but I have sense enough to know that they want me to be upset so I don't show it. If more people would do the same they would not burn our flag nor anyone else's either.
2007-09-12 06:47:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Every once in awhile this issue comes up.. I don't know where you stand on this but I personally am not bothered by flag burning... and this is a free country that allows a person to burn a flag like it allows a person to own a gun (and so I'm okay with not messing with the Constitution just to protect a flag).
I wouldn't do it but that is because I don't think it does anything to further a cause. It just pisses people off.
But to be honest I don't even think this is a real issue. In my entire life I can say that I have never seen ANYBODY burn a flag (except on television but its not like walking down the street and seeing upset people spilling out of their homes and burning flags... it jst never happens).
2007-09-12 06:35:01 · answer #8 · answered by cattledog 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I have seen it done in person, I might have been the proudest person in the USA at the time and I was wearing dress blues. What a country that you can have the right to protest and still be defended by the institution that your are protesting. God Bless America! You can not defend the constitution in parts, either you accept the document in it's entirety or you disregard it in its entirety.
2007-09-12 06:35:38 · answer #9 · answered by libsticker 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Not yet and I hope I don't and the libs are spinning this one as for fretless Sounds like another wannabe "claming" more" than what the truth actually allows Semper Fi
2007-09-12 06:57:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋