Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:11:19 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties References: <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> <17c0ceb693286352$341$3121036$c0d58a68@news.newsdemon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: <2MucnTxnR-96cJn7nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@giganews.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:11:19 +0000 Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-G1bqKEfWsDA/QPgmjyusep+gbkl71RVkSUK0dbCMTQJ3KpMAdj/3YPhOaJ/H3hVhNyS9tOu5bwM1DTw!7hfhIkwetn29OcMRJEMSaDn3eF3FSIA2dXPFGDP9o5tYaTgQY+YndmQxzM+yBLrbj3vNq0rKcX6I X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3030 X-Original-Lines: 45 On Mar 27, 2024 at 8:05:40 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: > On 3/27/2024 7:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article >> <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com>, >> 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. >> >> What if the former is one of protest, too? > > That'd be for a judge to be convinced of Since when do I have to convince the government of the reasons for my speech to keep from being jailed for it? "Congress shall make no law..." > ...who might ask, e.g., whether the defendant *knew* how the act would be > perceived. My right to free speech isn't dependent on how someone else-- with an agenda of their own-- might perceive my words.