free speech is more than just spoken words yo, get yo shit straight.Originally Posted by Killer
free speech is more than just spoken words yo, get yo shit straight.
yup, but desecrating the flag is against the law... so how can it be considered free speech.... i'm not retarded wayne, and though some of this debate may have been about bush... my beef with the sig holder was due to the fact there was something written on the flag, NOT what was written on the flag.... matter of fact, the thread starter stated kinda the same thing with the original post....
Killer, I normally tend to see your point of view. In this case, I just don't see why you should get all worked up about it. Let me give you an example:
You go to the grocery store. When you walk out, you see a couple arguing by THEIR car. The man suddenly takes a grocery cart and starts ramming it into HIS car. Although it's technically illegal what he is doing, how is his actions going to have ANY effect on YOU?
Now, let's look at it in the flag's scenario.
Some idiot half-wit protestor decides to march in some anti-Bush rally down a public street. He decides on his own, for whatever stupid messed up reasons, to turn the American flag upside down as he's walking. He even decides to later on scribble on it, maybe even burn it and stomp on it. How does HIS actions to an inanimate object like a flag have ANY effect on you besides making you angry? If President Bush did it, I'd be concerned because he does have the control over the big red switch, right? But some nobody that is venting on the street about something he probably knows little to nothing about and wants to be a retard? It amounts to some idiot jumping off the roof of his house imitating a wrestler for his dumbass buddies who are video taping. It's a dumbass move, but the only person he's really hurting is himself, right? I wouldn't do it, you wouldn't do it, and maybe a million other people wouldn't do it. Hell, we all think they are dumbasses for doing it....burning the flag or jumping off their roof....take a pic.
My point is that even though you and I may find that kind of display moronic, it also serves a purpose. The purpose it serves is that we have to ALL abide by the Constitution of the United States which affords even retards certain rights. When intelligent people, like you and I
, need certain rights ourselves.....then the retards can't take those away from us either.
Unfortunately sometimes, we have to let idiots speak so we can get equal time at the mic. Otherwise we would live in a society where only a handful of people get to express themselves....i.e. Dictatorship.
he didn't burn the flag, he didn't cut it up, he didn't stomp on it.....how'd he desecrate it again? maybe he was just retarded and was holding it upside down?
Come on Wayne, that was just a stupid comment. Slap yourself.
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