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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Burning the Bill of Rights
    #5795436 - 06/27/06 10:33 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,423833,00.html

Senate Republicans are trying to torch a hole in the First Amendment's free speech guarantee by passing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow federal and state authorities to punish flag-burning.

With the Fourth of July fast approaching, Senate Republicans are holding a barbecue. Unfortunately, instead of grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, they are trying to torch a hole in the First Amendment's free speech guarantee by passing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow federal and state authorities to punish flag-burning.

Some things should be out of bounds even in a competitive election year. Messing with the Constitution is one of them.

In reality, of course, the Stars and Stripes are in no urgent need of protection from scruffy match-wielding protesters. The Senate has been debating the flag issue on and off for years - ever since the Supreme Court's 1989 decision holding, quite properly, that flag-burning, however offensive it may seem, is constitutionally protected free speech. The amendment's return - just in time to distract voters from G.O.P. failures on more pressing fronts - might be dismissed as a bad joke except for two things: an intense lobbying campaign on its behalf by the American Legion, and the fact that no lawmaker relishes taking a stand that might be portrayed as unpatriotic, especially in an election year.

The last time the full Senate voted on the amendment, in 2000, the measure came up just four votes short of the required two-thirds. Nose counters on both sides say that supporters of the amendment are now just a single vote shy. That means that when the roll call is taken on the amendment later this week, there are no freebies. On this round, every vote counts. The House has already approved the amendment, and its ratification by the states is virtually certain should the Senate go along.

As an alternative to the amendment, two of its opponents, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, and Robert Bennett, Republican of Utah, have proposed a statute against flag-burning instead. Unquestionably, passing a law to address this nonproblem is preferable to rewriting the Constitution. But in crafting a bill with a comparatively narrow reach, its sponsors have not cured the affront to free speech. For that reason, it deserves to be defeated.

As debate on the amendment proceeds, past supporters like Harry Reid, the Democratic minority leader, owe a duty to search their consciences. Each senator must cast a vote as if it is the deciding one. Given the political math, it well could be.


What the fuck is going on in Washington?! I don't condone flag burning but that is part of our rights as Americans. :doh:


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Re: Burning the Bill of Rights [Re: VoidOfsPg]
    #5795503 - 06/27/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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What the fuck is going on in Washington?!




They're all too busy fighting over who gets the cooler state bird or the shinier state rock.

I think it's time to wipe the slate clean. Almost every single representative of the American people in our Congress is grossly incompetent and I'd say at least 90% of them serve one purpose only, and that is to keep themselves in power.

I feel the need to sucker punch every member of that crooked house at least once a day now.


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Re: Burning the Bill of Rights [Re: VoidOfsPg]
    #5795588 - 06/27/06 11:29 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

This makes me want to smoke a joint while burning a flag at an interracial gay wedding.


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Re: Burning the Bill of Rights [Re: Silversoul]
    #5795602 - 06/27/06 11:33 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Well, shit! Whatcha doin this weekend? My white lesbo sister is getting married to her asian life partner, and I've got joints, flags, and plenty o' lighter fluid.


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Re: Burning the Bill of Rights [Re: DNKYD]
    #5795667 - 06/27/06 11:56 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

My state bird (Florida) is my middle finger. :grin:


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Re: Burning the Bill of Rights [Re: VoidOfsPg]
    #5795682 - 06/27/06 12:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Funny, I thought that was New York's! :lol:


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Re: Burning the Bill of Rights [Re: DNKYD]
    #5796237 - 06/27/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

It really is New Yorks along with alot of other obnoxious behavior we get from you guys through your mass migration to FL and the cultural assimilation that took place afterwards.


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