If it's not free speech to burn witches, it's not free speech to burn flags.
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If it's not free speech to burn witches, it's not free speech to burn flags.
If it's not free speech to burn people with twitter accounts, it's not free speech to burn flags.
See how easy it is?
1: Witches don't exist and they would be living beings if they did, and therefore entitled to the protections that all people are. Killing them because of your religious beliefs is an example of stupidity not free speech.
2: A flag is an inanimate object in spite of its symbolism. Inanimate objects do have a place in free speech displays.
Did you get it yet?
I can burn a flag, because flags exist.
I cannot burn a witch, because witches do not exist. Not in the context you mean, dickwad. All one can burn are old women, opinionated housewives, and new agers who have forgotten that cloves are for cooking.
Burning a symbol is a statement, and the butthurt that Republicans (and some Democrats) express when flags are burned, but not when people are killed, forced to live with undue burdens, or harassed, is a statement that reveals their true colors as selfish pricks.
Burning a person is (attempted) murder and should result in you never joining society ever again.
There is nothing so sociopathic (and I mean that in every negative sense of the word) as placing symbols and concepts above real people.
Burning witches: Killing living breathing human beings via immolation.
Burning Flags: Burning a lifeless piece of cloth.
Finally, FIRST AMENDMENT, YOU IDIOT!!! FREEDOM OF SPEECH! FREEDOM TO PROTEST! FREEDOM OF RELIGION!
This may be a wild guess, but you weren't a member of the Boy Scouts of America , eh VD?
If Bear Grylls - in an edition of his survival series - discovered a ghost town in the US: which nobody had visited previously for many decades, and the only dry material he could find to use as fire-making kindling was a Stars & Stripes, therefore a question: what do you think he should do?
And as Bear Grylls is a British man who is a former reservist in the SAS, and just happens to be Chief Scout and a Christian, your call.
If it's not free speech to burn flags, it's not free speech to burn Korans or Colin Capernick's jersey.
I know you revere the flag as a symbol of freedom. Lost of people do. But the symbol is not what's important. The values it symbolizes are. If you seek to preserve the symbol of freedom by restricting people's civil liberties, you're not only not preserving it, you're making a mockery of it. Especially when you claim that it's as bad as killing actual human beings for crimes they could not have committed.
For flags:It is you know, legally you can burn it, diss it or ignore it, same as your anthem or pledge.
Maybe not a smart thing to do seeing as so many of you are deluded into thinking it's a death sentence to do so, but legally,, well, legal. Funny thing is you far righters who believe this fly the flag wrong, tattered, around things, on covers, Harley fuckin Davidson imagery, broken flag imagery on everything you can think of. Yet others are dissing it by incorporating it into their free speech protests.
Do you have a clue about your actual laws and rights? They're not church or Limbaugh granted.
You know, one thing that really sticks in my craw about this whole flag-burning thing... the United States Flag Code, quoth Wikipedia:
"When a flag is so tattered that it no longer fits to serve as a symbol of the United States, it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of America, the military and other organizations regularly conduct dignified flag-burning ceremonies."
That's right. I remember reading that the best way was to first cut the stars from the bars - because that would make it no longer a flag - and then cremate the remains respectfully, but still, burning is actually, by federal US law , the proper way to dispose of a flag that has served as long as it could.
Sounds like animism or the Roman belief in the genii legionis to me. Burn the idolatrous heathen!
Seriously, what is the reason for American wingnuts' flag worship?
If I can't kill people, you can't perform a symbolic act of rebellion against the politics of a country... a country incidentally I constantly trash-talk and my father committed crimes against by "protesting" taxes which landed him in prison, which I hate my mother for because she sold him out when he abandoned us to take the heat for him robbing me of his parentage even though he still wouldn't have been here if she hadn't because he thought not paying taxes was more important than being with his family and was willing to sacrifice our freedom for it. That all makes sense, right? I'm a super-intelligence!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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