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flag-burning

28 Jun 2006

I know I’m probably ignoring a vast and colorful history in saying this, but I think the flag-burning amendment is possibly the dumbest thing I’ve seen congress do in a while (with the possible exception of the various attempts at “marriage protection”), and it’s a little frightening to me that it made it as far as the Senate, much less a narrow defeat. As far as I’m concerned, support for this amendment should be considered a litmus test for crippling retardation.

So, you will not be surprised to learn that I am glad it was defeated. Flag-burning party at my place? No? Well, okay.

Comments

Glenn — June 28, 2006 at 22:04 · reply

But it was defeated by a terryingly narrow margin.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard for these people to understand that this would defeat everything that the flag is supposed to represent, even when veterans get up and explain they were fighting for our liberties, and not our icons.

Colin — June 30, 2006 at 03:39 · reply

Perhaps the people who don’t understand what the flag is supposed to represent will get it after the people who suppose the flag represents that thing understand that it now represents something quite different - tyranny, empire, the deified state.

Similarly, what the veterans thought they were fighting for and what they were actually fighting for were clearly quite different.

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