Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:05:40 -0400
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On 3/27/2024 7:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <17c0c13d249c8eca$72548$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <uu22s3$32lii$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>    "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> 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 ...who might ask, e.g., whether 
the defendant *knew* how the act would be perceived.