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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Machaon who wrote (505538)12/7/2003 8:30:21 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
The right to burn the flag as a form of protest must always be allowed in a free country. As distasteful as it might seem to many, it is far more distasteful to violate the first amendment.

The American Legion and Boy Scouts burn thousands of flags every year in respectful retirement ceremonies. The difference between these burnings and the protester burnings are the thoughts of the persons doing the burning.

Are you advocating thought control? Certainly not I would hope.

Therefore if a people are truly free, they should be allowed to express their views, and flag burning, as free speech is protected under the Constitution.

Orca
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