Congress has finally slipped the track - again

[hifi]

More police state patriotism.

There has been one flag burning incident this year. Instead of getting spending under control or a million other things they could be doing, Congress is wasting their time removing the 1st Amendment from the Constitution.

Congress has finally slipped the track - again

How is that possible, it's Republican controlled.

 

[dustind]

If the flag was protected by law it would lose a lot of it's meaning.

I love my country, but I could never fly an Amaerican flag if this amendment passes.

If this amendment fails I will put one up in front of my house.

 

[RevDisk]

I may have to steal that as my new sig line. In fact, I think I will. (Is plagiarism covered under free speach?)

I was merely plagiarizing the ideas in the Federalist Papers and various volumes written about the Founding Fathers.

Some people argued against the original Bill of Rights believing that the future government might limit freedoms to just the ones listed in the BoR. They were also worried that people might start believing said rights were derived from the BoR itself, which is false. We were born with certain rights. The BoR just lists a FEW of them, and clearly specifies this.

These people were proved correct, but I think that without the BoR, we'd be worse off than we currently are.

It used to be the government and the citizenry were one in the same. I'm not so certain this is still the case.

Erm. Perhaps, a long time ago. If I had to peg a specific period of this seperation, I'd say the Civil War. Lincoln's ghost is still trying to make slaves of us all. Regardless of when this seperation occurred, it is definitely not the case these days.

 

[David W. Gay]

"Go ahead, we'll make more..."

Who cares how many flags get burned? Just make more!

BTW, has anyone noticed how many American Flags have "Made In China" labels on them??


Carry on!

 

[Orthonym]

If I Can Find A Gadsden Flag,

at a price I can afford, that's what I'll be flying on the Glorious Fourth. As well as making whatever loud noises I deem appropriate, be they quite "legal" here, or not.