Friday, June 24, 2005
ooooooo loook; something shiiiiny *drool*
do they really expect us to fall for this crap?
What’s all this bru-ha-ha about an amendment against burning the American flag?!?
What does the American flag stand for? A Republic based on the US Constitution. What are the ideals and Values embodied in our Constitution? That the individual has certain inalienable rights, among them the right to think for himself and to speak his mind. Even if he does so poorly. Even if what he says is against the very ideals and Values that enable him to freely say it, he has the right. The act of burning the flag, by virtue of being the physical destruction of the symbol for an abstract, is an act of speech.
What is a guy who burns the flag? A snail-skulled moron who is too ignorant or foolish to comprehend its meaning; too feeble-minded to grasp that he is burning the symbol that stands for the very right he is busy exercising. What is a Constitutional amendment against burning the flag? An oxymoron.
What is it in the current political climate? A red herring. A shiny object meant to distract the simple by means of a purportedly black-and-white ‘question.’ A pretend litmus test for “patriots.” And an all-too-real witch-hunt for “non-patriots.” An irritating wast of time and attention.
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