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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:16:18 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>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.

Why do I have deja vu every time you try to explain the incredibly obvious
to moviePig? Why do I have deja vu every time you try to explain the
incredibly obvious to moviePig?