Whats your position on flag burning?

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear !!! your education is sadly lacking !!! - the state of Israel didn't exist in 1933, the jews who were victimised by the Nazi regime were actually German, Italian, Hungarian, Roumanian, Russian, Polish, Czech. The Nazis didn't only victimise the jews either, Socialists, Communists, Intellectuals, Trade Unionists, The Disabled, etc, etc, etc were all victimised by the Nazis.

 

It may be nothing to you and many others who NEVER served in our military. Each of us that did took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and to me and many other veterans our Nations Flag represents that Constitution. So, if you're burning it I simply must ask "Why are you even here then"? People in other countries burn their Nations flag because they hate it and are going to attempt to over throw it, here people burn it because they want change...There are better, more respectful ways to obtain change IMO.

 

Revolution perhaps ???

 

You are assuming that because they burn their country's flag they'd rather be somewhere else. And that because they protest against their country's policies, government or whatever their motive is, thst they dislike their country. This is a fallacy of course; they take issue with those policies or aspect of government, etc. They protest because they care about their country.
Unless they're burning public property or your flag they're not doing anything wrong by burning their own american flag. You don't have to like it btw. But at least dislike it for the right reasons

 

The Constitution guarantees freedom of expression which, according to two Supreme Court decisions, includes the right to burn the flag. If you and other members of the armed services took oaths to defend the Constitution, you should be defending the right to burn the flag. As I've said earlier, I'm amazed that this discussion is still going on, since flag burning seems to have become a rare occurrence and a non-issue. When the forbidden fruit is no longer forbidden, it seems to lose its flavor.

 

Iowa law then is in conflict with the U.S. Constitution, under the Supreme Court ruling in Texas v Johnson (1989).When was this? Did you have a lawyer?

 

I don't know what the law in in Australia, but in the United States we have no such sweeping provisions against hate speech. We have a constitutional right under the First Amendment to go around calling people who are different from us insulting names--subject to constitutional restrictions on fighting words and incitement to riot.

 

As long as the dummy burning it wraps themselves up in it first, I won't interfere.

 

Sweet, so. I wouldn't be racist. I'd be muscleicist.

 

This just tells me that their constitution needs to be changed. It's 30 years old.
Pretty sure Donald Trump made it law that hate speech was something that wasn't allowed.
The First Amendment: what it really means for free speech and why Donald Trump is trampling on it

 

Didn’t realise it was Germany v Israel. You learn something new everyday!

 

That's why the judge was embarrassed . No , I didn't want to go to trial .

 

I think it should be legal as long as done safely.

One of the great things about America is that we can complain about our nation.

 

You just have to GIT OUT afterwards

 

Go on, git

 

For those who says it's a non violent way of protesting, answer me this question: how is setting anything on fire non violent? I mean fire can easily spread, plus you are in fact destroying a thing which would qualifying it as vandalisme.

My position on flag burning is simply this: Burning the flag of a nation, be it your own nation or any other, is a decleration of war, because the flag is symbolic of that nation's soverignty and independence.