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Date Posted: Friday, June 24, 08:51:13am
Author: Bear
Subject: Re: "flag burning" amendment
In reply to: Brassman 's message, ""flag burning" amendment" on Wednesday, June 22, 09:57:32pm

I'm with you on this one Brassman, prehaps that's not such a big surprise. I've never had the desire to burn the flag myself, and particularly wouldn't care if someone did.

I think, however, it may pass this year. To my utter disbelief.

Although I agree with the Supreme Court that it is a form of political speech protected by the 1st amendment, I
I am mostly concerned with elevating to the status of a religious icon a piece of cloth. It seems to me that the Bush administration is feeling desperate. Public Support for the war in Iraq is dropping, so they try to sieze control and cut the funding of PBS to squeltch a percieve media bias and divert our attention with this attempt to ban burning the flag. Anyone who would oppose the bill while "our boys are fighting" must be unpatriotic. Oh, and by the way, according to Rove, those "liberals" want to provide therapy to the terrorists and never really supported the war against the 9/11 bombers (which Iraq has nothing to with, according to Bush himself).

It looks like the Bush administration's strategy is slash and burn and divide, America. I wish their were more McCain republicans than Rove republicans.

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