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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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On Mar 27, 2024 at 8:05:40 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:

> 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

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.