Flag Protection Amendment

[Beet]

My main problem with this is not that it's a violation of free expression (it is, but a very minor one), but that it's a complete waste of an amendment.

Let's get a line-item veto, a balanced budget, and no presidential term limits.

None of that will ever get passed.

[Beet]

My main problem with this is not that it's a violation of free expression (it is, but a very minor one), but that it's a complete waste of an amendment.

Let's get a line-item veto, a balanced budget, and no presidential term limits.

None of that will ever get passed.

The balanced budget amendment fell one vote short in the Senate a few years ago, I believe.

None of it will ever get passed.

[Beet]

No one has yet explained how flag burning is protected under the First Amendment.  The only "actions" (since burning is an action) listed are the actions of petition and assembling peacefully.

Speaking is also an action

[Beet]

No one has yet explained how flag burning is protected under the First Amendment.  The only "actions" (since burning is an action) listed are the actions of petition and assembling peacefully.

Speaking is also an action

Which is directly addressed.  So is the Press.  Nothing is in there regarding "expression," which the majority of those who oppose the ban claim is implied.  Nothing within the first amendment covers flag burning.

Nor online message boards.

[Beet]

No one has yet explained how flag burning is protected under the First Amendment.  The only "actions" (since burning is an action) listed are the actions of petition and assembling peacefully.

Speaking is also an action

Which is directly addressed.  So is the Press.  Nothing is in there regarding "expression," which the majority of those who oppose the ban claim is implied.  Nothing within the first amendment covers flag burning.

Nor online message boards.

Exactly.  This could easily be closed down, unless you want to put up an argument that this falls under the "press" since the press is speech in written form.

So you think the government should be able to control what gets said through the online medium?