Originally posted by Intelearthling
Should burning the flag be protected under free speech? Many a good men and women have given their lives so that the rest of us can fly it in front of our homes.
Did these brave souls sacrifice their lives so that some scum can burn it in defiance of the government? This isn't the governments flag. It's the American peoples. IMO, this shouldn't be classified under speech, since there aren't any spoken or written words in their actions!
I've always thought that if a person did this, they not only hate Americans, they are capable of inflicting injuries and/or death upon the citizens of America. This came to mind watching protests across the country and at the same time thought, should the people who participate in protests, who are not registered to vote, be charged with conspiracy to incite a riot?
IMO, people who don't vote, don't count! They couldn't have cared less at election time, so why should they care at any other time. To me, people who protest and don't vote are just a bunch of loud mouth's that needs to be shut up, because those who do paticipate in the elections don't want to hear it. We don't care what people, who don't vote, think one bit at all!
I'm glad the representative views of our armed forces are shared here. At least, the FreeRepublic's version. Yes, the above is the American brand of Fascism, brought live and living color by the good folks at the RNC. Where freedom means agreeing. Where liberty mean slavery. And, where truth and justice for all, means truth and justice for some...just so long as they agree with us.
No, I hope everybody takes a good, long look at your post and all of your other subsequent posts, so they can have rudimentary understanding of hatred and anger and insecurity in its most basic, most distilled form. Utterly repellent and completely insane, it's the blight that man has fought against since they began to walk upright.
Unfortunately, we'll never get rid of you and brothers. You're primal and you're here to stay. But, make no mistake, you are the depths of the soul, not the peak. You'll infect the daily discourse of the every day life of every person on the planet, until we're all dead. Then all you guys can dance a jig on the corpse of the world, drinking to its memory.
Because, only then will you be happy. When everything is flames and corpses of your enemies: the traitors, the hippies, the liberals, the democrats, and anyone else who doesn't agreee with you are crushed under your heels. Only then will you feel comfortable in your own skin. Guys like you are variations on the same theme. Replace the Iron Cross with the Sickle and Hammer, and then replace that with a Brooks Brothers suit.
Fascists and fundementalists are a threat to the living.
