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In article <uum1h8$juqp$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 4/3/24 2:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 2024 at 8:36:11 AM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 4/3/2024 5:50 AM, FPP wrote:
> >>>   On 4/2/24 5:52 PM, moviePig wrote:
> >>>>   On 4/2/2024 1:16 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> >>>>>   BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>   Mar 27, 2024 at 3:58:45 PM PDT, moviePig <never@nothere.com>:
> >>>>>>>   3/27/2024 6:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>   Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
> >>>>>>>>>   BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

> >>>>>>>>>> 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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> https://ibb.co/0FpvG4S
> >>>>>
> >>>>> moviePig is unparseable here. Is he stating that protestors protest
> >>>>> against their friends and not their enemies? I'm so confused.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm here to help.
> >>>>
> >>>> In general, people who burn an American flag do so in protest of their
> >>>> own government's actions and policies, while those who burn a rainbow
> >>>> flag do so to express their hate of queers.
> >>>   
> >>> If you own it, you can burn it.
> >>
> >> But not at a gay-pride march under laws against hate speech.
> > 
> > There are no laws against hate speech in the United States. If any 
> > legislature should pass such a law, it would be unconstitutional.

> That was in the old Constitution. You know... the one Roberts, Alito, 
> IKavanaugh, and Barret swore up and down they would go by.
> And then didn't.
> 
> Settled law, my ass. Alito quoted a 17th century Witch Hunter in his 
> draft opinion on Roe (Dobbs).

Did he? That's awesome!

> Fuck this Illegitimate Supreme Court of Religious Fanatics.

This Supreme Court has reinforced free speech over government control 
and sanction at nearly every opportunity, so regardless of whether 
you're mentally fucking them or not (shudder), don't look for them to 
suddenly embrace the notion of carving out a heretofore never before 
noticed exception to the 1st Amendment and allow the government to start 
suddenly punishing people for 'hate speech'.