Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:10:11 -0400
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On 3/28/2024 10:17 AM, FPP wrote:
> On 3/27/24 6:58 PM, moviePig 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.
>>
>>
> 
> Pig, if you OWN the flag, any flag, you can burn it all you like.

I'd imagine a "hate crime" might include more the mere fact of burning.