The online site Townhall.com said Hillary Clinton co-sponsored legislation in 2005 that would jail flag burners. This principle is all the more important at a time of such sharp ideological and political divisions. One is to represent America’s dark sides: slavery, oppression, and genocide.
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The first amendment explicitly protects the freedom of religion which numerous voters that propelled you to the Presidency hold dearly, the freedom of assembly which you took advantage of ad nauseum at your notorious rallies across the nation, the freedom of the press that you cast as the antagonist in your messiah narrative; and most importantly, it protects the freedom of speech that allowed you to rise to the position of Presidency against all odds.
Enrique Macias is a war veteran from San Antonio.
The Islamists and their supporters have places like Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran that live by Sharia law. It’s always been speech from the fringes, expression pushing the boundaries of our capacity for tolerance, that ensures First Amendment rights for everyone.
I’m not so sure we can say that. “It breaks my heart seeing that because we put that flag over our fallen soldiers”.
And that has come at a price: the deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought to preserve freedom, including the “right” to burn the flag – yes, while serving under that very banner.
Republican Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin recently said on CNN: “W$3 e want to protect those people who want to protest and their right to actually demonstrate with disgracing our flag, even though so many of us who love our country and love our flag object to it”.
What’s next? Will Trump suggest that maybe people shouldn’t have the right to speak out against the government?
The court most famously took up a flag-burning case in 1989 when it determined that flag burning in protest was protected speech under the First Amendment. It is the country it is because the US has been able to overcome such oppression and still be a great nation today, though admittedly not flawless.
That’s why the backlash against Trump’s tweet has been so expressive.
The First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from enacting laws infringing upon the freedom of speech, has consistently been interpreted in the modern era so as to insulate the public manifestation of political ideas from any government interference, whether the manifestation is by word or deed or both.
The sports star refused to stand during the national anthem at his games, which spurred criticism far and wide.
Americans should have expected Donald Trump to have a steep learning curve before he took over the Oval Office. “It doesn’t seem to have affected his ability to play the sport”.
Is it possible to at once and with the same action honor and disrespect a singular entity? Just feels wrong. Why aren’t people who oppose desecrating the flag complaining about that? “What we’re seeing in society is rituals slowly going away”. According to usflag.org: “When a flag is so worn it is no longer fit to serve as a symbol of our country, it should be destroyed by burning in a dignified manner”.
Had they watched honor guards in white gloves neatly fold and present to the next of kin the flag that covered the coffin of a fallen service member, they would see the flag as personal.
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“I love my country, and this is extremely disrespectful and destructive”, said Deborah Ogburn. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., co-sponsored (unsuccessfully) a bill to bar flag-burning when meant to “incite violence”.
