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jrd200x Donating Member (297 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:01 PM
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Why is it OK to trash Constution but not OK to burn the Flag?
This seems like such a no brainer to me. Why is this?
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:03 PM
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1. Because "after 9/11"
:sarcasm:
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:04 PM
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2. -sigh-
Why do you hate America?
:shrug:
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:05 PM
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3. Because the flag is easy to understand, and the Constitution requires
a little time to learn and to appreciate? A lot of Americans denigrate what they don't understand and think they can't understand.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:22 PM
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4. Yeah, it's got all them WORDS on it
It's not all pretty colors.

Some of them words are real big, too.
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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:38 PM
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5. Scalia and Anthony Kennedy believe it is okay to burn the flag
I just throw that in the face of whichever conservative I'm arguing with and it usually shuts them up.

How could two Reagan judges ever be "wrong?"
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Thom Little Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:13 PM
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7. Hillary doesn't.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:02 PM
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6. Because the behavior is protected by the document?
Justa guess.

-Hoot
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radio4progressives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:18 PM
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8. I pledge Allegience to the Constitution and to the Republic for which
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 10:20 PM by radio4progressives
it Represents... (end of pledge)

Don't need no stink'n nationalism.

The Constitution is a document which contains the LAWS of the LAND to which all other legislation must be in accordance with, are subservient to.

Too often they are not.

The Flag is a symbol of Nationlism that is too often USED in saber rattling, jingoistic blather about "freedoms and democracy" particularly exploited to promote WARFARE.

The Constitution ain't about promoting wars, the flag always used to promote wars.

That's the difference to me.

(edited for clarification)
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