Get the heck out!
You'll have to forgive me for getting to the blog later than usual today. I got caught up in developing our Wimbledon coverage and couldn't break away at lunch to vent my thoughts. So now that the work day is over and I'm heading to the gym, I figured I should touch base on a topic hitting the evening news right about now.
Here's the story...
Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment
The Senate today fell one vote short of passing a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed Congress to prohibit the desecration of the American flag.Flag burning is such a touchy issue because it hits into a gray area of the constitution and how we interpret "freedom of speech." As we all know, there is a massive liberal double-standard when it comes to freedom of speech and what is generally protected and left alone. For example, Foothill High School Valedictorian Brittany McComb's
graduation speech was cut short by the Clark County (Las Vegas) School District because this straight A student mentioned God in her address to fellow graduates. This form of speech, mentioning anything related to "God," was considered off-limits by officials and the ACLU. But burning the flag of ones country has long been held up as the utmost representation of our freedom to express our thoughts and feelings. So ask yourself, how can the mention of "God" be considered so bad, yet burning our most patriotic symbol of freedom considered good?
It's a warped ideology if you ask me. And it's another example of how anti-American zealots hide behind the very constitution they seem to hate so much.
Seriously, give this one some thought for a second. It really goes hand in hand with the same reasoning the New York Times is using to justify their absurd leaking of another critical counter-terrorism program. Both the times and flag burning proponents use the constitution to justify their reckless and downright stupid anti-American antics. They hide behind this mystical document that they interpret to suggest threatening freedom is ultimately protected...as freedom.
But to myself and over 75% of Americans, this is not the case. Flag burning - and leaking secret national security programs - both do absolutely no good for society. When our forefathers wrote up the constitution, do you think they believed the success of our nation would depend on our ability to compromise its security and patriotism? Of course not! But then again, these men operated in times of respect, valor, integrity and honor. They understood the principals of freedom, but also understood the concept of responsibility.
I applaud Sen. Orrin Hatch for attempting to make what is a strongly supported move to protect our symbols of patriotism. And I applaud those who voted, both Republican and Democrat, in favor of this amendment. But as this goes public to most of you tonight on the news, you can bet the spin has already begun. The Treason Times has already postured itself in favor of burning the flag (what a surprise), but
The Right Angle gives some perspective worth reading.
The NY Times editorial begins:
With the Fourth of July fast approaching, Senate Republicans are holding a barbecue. Unfortunately, instead of grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, they are trying to torch a hole in the First Amendment's free speech guarantee by passing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow federal and state authorities to punish flag-burning.
To which The Right Angle replies...
This amendment, every time it has been considered, has been a bipartisan effort. At least 49 state legislatures, both Republican and Democrat, have passed resolutions calling for Congress to submit an amendment to them for ratification. Congress has been the last to act. The Senate stands alone against the wishes of the American people.You see, this isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. Just like the concept of Brittany McComb mentioning God in her Valedictorian speech, this is an issue of moral value that has been attacked by the ACLU, the Times and other anti-Americans while hiding under a loose interpretation of our constitution. To these freaks freedom protects their hatred of America, but not the love of God and country.
The Right Angle continues...
Liberals who love to trash those of us who believe in upholding some sort of moral code in the country and support doing so by amending the Constitution (since the Supreme Court has seen fit to strike down laws intended to do the same thing) are claiming that the Right is some how destroying the Constitution.
How is it that passing a Constitutional amendment in the very fashion the Constitution calls for when dealing with its own amending is somehow unconstitutional?Hopefully this issue won't die and one day our leaders will do what we elected them to do...lead. The ACLU and the New York Times are the last people our politicians should listen to when trying to interpret our constitution and the moral fabric of our founding. If you want an answer to those who wish to burn our symbol of patriotism...put them on a plane with a one way ticket out of America. Surely they can find another country that will allow them to burn flags.
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6 Old Comments:
One of the most proud assignments a soldier in an advancing military unit engaging an enemy is Flag Bearer. They know they will be a primary target, among the first to die. They know it is their duty to hold their flag - their company, their regiment, their nation's - high, and it shall not fall. Another will carry it on.
Don't tell me that those brave and proud flag bearers willingly die so others may burn that flag back home. Those gutless congresspersons who excuse flag desecration as some sort of free expression insult all who have perished in order to protect it.
They are shameless. They should have such courage.
If they hate the country so much they wish to burn the flag, then leave. There is nothing keeping them here except freedom, which they seem to hate.
How are you going, Charlie Brown? Just like with Lucy holding the football, you got suckered again. The politicians you follow blindly will keep bringing this up again and again, dangling it just out of your reach to keep you slavering. Come to think of it, you're more like the donkey ("Hey Merle, did he just call us a Dimmycrat symbol?") with the carrot dangling in front of it to keep it trotting along. You're being manipulated by people who are even more cynical than yourselves. And smarter, too. But that doesn't take much...
And SF GOP Guy -- does that stand for San Francisco? I used to live there. But my wife and I left the country and moved to Australia in March. Because we LUUUUUUV freedom. And you're losing it in the USA. Government spying on your phone records, e-mails, finances, searching your home without a warrant, torturing people to death, making them disappear into foreign prisons without trial... The modern U.S. is becoming no different to the old USSR. Australia is SO much freer!
Let me tell you a little story. At an art gallery in the town of Footscray, Vic., a working-class immigrant suburb west of Melbourne, an Aboriginal artist made a display of an Aussie flag that had been trampled, partly burnt and has a bullet hole shot in it. That was done to represent what had been done to his native people. No law against it. But a local policeman climbed through the window of a neighbouring cafe, broke into the art gallery and took the tampered flag. No warrant or even an official complaint -- just a "lawman" breaking the law. There was a court case in March and a judge said the flag had to be returned to the gallery, which it was. You see, the law has to obey judges down here -- what a concept! And you know what, mates? Life goes on. There were no riots. People did not take to burning the Union Jack/Southern Cross mash-up they use here, even when the local Greek, Croat and Italian communities got fired up during the recent World Cup soccer action. You know why nothing bad happened? BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GROWN-UPS HERE! unlike the lot of you.
One more thing, SF Guy -- are you the one who left the anonymous hate mail threatening to fly your Confederate flag when my wife and I put the French flag outside our house on Devonshire Way at the start of your horrid little war? Some San Francisco flag lover did, but they didn't have the guts to show their face.
To sum it up, boyos, I'm the person you love to hate: a French-flag-flying liberal union member who doesn't love his country, so he left it. My money's in Switzerland (out of U.S. dollars) and my arse is in Australia, where I will be laughing at you when the U.S. falls into fascism. Won't be long now...
Bukko...
Thank God you're in Australia. One more "cut and runner" we don't have to worry about, or protect.
Oh, and your Honorable Discharge was from what service again?
I will agree with you on one thing, though. If the fascist Democrats win congress this fall like they're assuming they will, socialism-fascism will quickly follow.
G'day.
How are you going, Charlie? That's how Aussies greet each other these days, and they say "No worries" when they part. "G'day" is last decade's slang, except in the Northern Territory, where they're a bit behind the times. was never in the U.S. military because whilst living on MacDill AFB where my dad was stationed, I got bit by a rattlesnake and the military docs messed up so bad that I got a chunk of my left leg cut off from the resultant gangrene. Kept me out of Vietnam! And I had a better reason for not going than President Cheney, the Commander-in-Chimp who pretends to be prez, Rush Limbaugh and the other chickenhawks you idolise. Doesn't it torque you off that these guys who didn't serve their country are sending the brave ones who DO serve to get slaughtered in two wars we're losing?
As for the "fascist" Democrats winning, don't worry about that. The Repugs have control of the electronic voting machines so they will cheat to win the coming Congressional election. My wife and I would have stayed and fought if we had any faith the U.S. was a fair democracy any more. But it's a one-party state now. You think it's YOUR party, but unless you're rich, it's not. Face it, mate, your life is getting worse and worse, whilst it gets better and better for the super-rich. But life IS better down here. Not perfect, even for a liberal like me, but the level of social tension in Oz is much less. It's like America was in the 60s here, only an America without the Kennedy assassination and the race riots. Good luck -- y'all are going to need it!
Hi Bukko:
I do want to thank you so much for painting that proverbial picture of a typical leftist loony. You do a far better job than I could ever do.
Also, I don't "idolise" (your spelling, not mine) my president or Rush Limbaugh - I admire them. It's easy, and satisfying, to admire people of resolve and truthfulness. Too bad your side doesn't have the likes. Truth, resolve, courage, decency - traits alien to the left.
So, thanks again. Stay out of the sun (it may be affecting your coherence) and keep those blogs coming.
Carry on. (Oops. That's old British isn't it?)