Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:17:03 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:17:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="13f21ef66b4c7d05f5917b2a81a81bb1"; logging-data="3815802"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19wYqBbPqoujPWAXkq6gtbV" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:L0WsqBYL8jUzQ/a5WAsZdPOzRc4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 2804 On 3/27/24 6:58 PM, moviePig wrote: > On 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article , >>   "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >> >>> BTR1701 wrote: >>>> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> >>>>> Last Friday, a Chicago alderman (there are cockroaches with higher >>>>> social >>>>> standing) gave a speech at a rally outside city hall condemning Biden >>>>> and support for Israel in the war against Hamas. A veteran had >>>>> burned a >>>>> special American flag >>> >>>> Why is it that burning the American flag is protected speech, but if >>>> you >>>> burn an Alphabet Mafia rainbow flag, you can get arrested for a hate >>>> crime? >>> >>> You mean a flag that does not belong to you, not your own flag. >> >> No, I mean any rainbow flag. If you go buy one yourself, then take it to >> an anti-troon protest and burn it, it's a hate crime. >> >> But if you buy an American flag and take it to an Antifa riot and burn >> it, protected speech. >> ... > > The former action is one of hate, the latter is one of protest. > > Pig, if you OWN the flag, any flag, you can burn it all you like. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0