Burning of the United States Flag - page 2.

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Quote from: devthedev on November 29, 2016, 11:43:38 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on November 29, 2016, 11:30:46 AM

I have a very simple solution for this. Revoke the voting rights of anyone, who burns the American flag. If someone doesn't feel proud of his country, then he has no right to take part in the elections.

I say revoke citizenship, it is clearly treason.

Fair enough.

If they have the courage to burn the national flag today, then what makes you think that tomorrow if some foreign power invades their country, they will not side with the invaders? In China, you would get the capital punishment for something like this.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on November 29, 2016, 11:30:46 AM

I have a very simple solution for this. Revoke the voting rights of anyone, who burns the American flag. If someone doesn't feel proud of his country, then he has no right to take part in the elections.

I say revoke citizenship, it is clearly treason.

Quote from: olushakes on November 29, 2016, 11:36:22 AM

will you be proud of your country that fails to protect you? These are fundamental issues that needs to be addressed. At a point I might not be proud of my country but at another point, I will bless God for making me a citizen.

Can you elaborate on this? There is not a country where you are safer, and have as many opportunities as a minority or member of the LGBT community.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on November 29, 2016, 11:30:46 AM

I have a very simple solution for this. Revoke the voting rights of anyone, who burns the American flag. If someone doesn't feel proud of his country, then he has no right to take part in the elections.

I don't believe in the revoking of right as a result of burning of flag. I agree it is wrong and it amount to not proud of your country but the issue is at that point, if you are the one, will you be proud of your country that fails to protect you? These are fundamental issues that needs to be addressed. At a point I might not be proud of my country but at another point, I will bless God for making me a citizen.

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I have a very simple solution for this. Revoke the voting rights of anyone, who burns the American flag. If someone doesn't feel proud of his country, then he has no right to take part in the elections.

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Quote from: xhomerx10 on November 28, 2016, 11:22:39 PM

Quote from: devthedev on November 28, 2016, 10:41:48 PM

Why is it illegal to burn a dollar, but not the flag of the United States?
Burning the flag should be prosecuted under article III, section 3, clause 1 of the Consitution; Treason.

Black Lives Matter protesters burning the flag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZNscX-Dvw

It's quite simple. Flag desecration laws have been contested at the level of the Supreme court whereas currency mutilation/defacement laws have not. It may be that the Supreme court will also see that as an inalienable right give the appropriate circumstance.

The 1st. amendment does not protect everything, and that can be easily overturned. I should then be able to burn down the Federal Reserve and the dollar because it's devalued and causes suffering.

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Quote from: devthedev on November 28, 2016, 10:41:48 PM

Why is it illegal to burn a dollar, but not the flag of the United States?
Burning the flag should be prosecuted under article III, section 3, clause 1 of the Consitution; Treason.

Black Lives Matter protesters burning the flag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZNscX-Dvw

It's quite simple. Flag desecration laws have been contested at the level of the Supreme court whereas currency mutilation/defacement laws have not. It may be that the Supreme court will also see that as an inalienable right give the appropriate circumstance.

“The hard fact is that sometimes we must make decisions we do not like. We make them because they are right, right in the sense that the law and the Constitution, as we see them, compel the result and so great is our commitment to the process that, except in the rare case, we do not pause to express distaste for the result, perhaps for fear of undermining a valued principle that dictates the decision. This is one of those rare cases.
Though symbols often are what we ourselves make of them, the flag is constant in expressing beliefs Americans share, beliefs in law and peace and that freedom which sustains the human spirit. The case here today forces recognition of the costs to which those beliefs commit us. It is poignant but fundamental that the flag protects those who hold it in contempt.”

- Justice Anthony Kennedy

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Why is it illegal to burn a dollar, but not the flag of the United States?
Burning the flag should be prosecuted under article III, section 3, clause 1 of the Consitution; Treason.

Black Lives Matter protesters burning the flag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZNscX-Dvw

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