Star Spangled Banner should never be played again IF....

LiberalFighter

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:16 PM
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Star Spangled Banner should never be played again IF....

Flag Desecration is criminalized

Because of the words in the Star Spangled Banner

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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win_in_06

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:17 PM
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1. If flag burners got their way it never would be played again

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SteppingRazor

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:18 PM
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2. Huh? How do those lines support burning the flag? n/t

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:34 PM
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8. What was happening when Francis Scott Key came up with the words?

Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

Those words should say to every American that no matter what happens our flag will always be there as well as our spirit. Or something along that line.

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SteppingRazor

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:40 PM
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9. Um... I don't get it...

Call me a :dunce: (I probably deserve it), but I think those lines, taken in context with the line before and after them, simply recall the night at Fort McHenry when the flag was visible at night because of all the explosions, and then plaintively ask whether that flag still stands over a land where people are free and brave. I don't get a flag-burning reference out of it.

But like I said, I ain't the smartest cookie in the bunch.

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Norquist Nemesis

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:19 PM
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3. Huh???

:shrug:

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Midlodemocrat

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:19 PM
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4. Don't get your reference...

:shrug:

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Deja Q

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:21 PM
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5. We're not the land of the free and we sure as hell are not the home of the

brave.

Not with our cowardly populace bending over their rights in favor of *cough* "security", just so they can trample over each other to get that new $400 laptop at mallwart...

fuckin' SICK.

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merwin

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:29 PM
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6. Who's trying to stop flag desecration? The bill that Hillary is

co-sponsoring is to make it a federal offence to use of flag-burning to knowingly incite violence, and also to ban burning other people's flags.

It's stil perfectly to burn the flag in protest, just so long as it is a peaceful protest.

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DS1

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Tue Dec-06-05 01:33 PM
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7. Dumbest argument of the day

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