Its ammunition.
The Neo-cons are thinking ahead. The Democratic party is weak now, and the Con's are kicking them in the balls while they are down. They are taking advantage of the fact that there are almost no Democratic senators who will activly speak out, and contradict the Republicans. Even H. Clinton's responce was half assed.
The Neo-Cons want to be able to, in the future, go, "You voted against the Flag burning amendment! Why do you hate freedom? Are you a terrorist?" ect. This amendment means jack shit. Its all about trying to take over 3/4ths of the senate to let anything go by, and damn if they wont stoop to any level to do it. If no-one stands up to blatant shit like this, well we're screwed.
Someone should have said to the person who brought 9/11 into it, "You don't know what they would have thought! And by putting words into their mouths and using them for your own political gain, you have discrased thir memory."
But alas, nobody will....
It seems as though Republicans want to take over the US, They've been picking at american freedoms one by one, the first heavy hitter was the patriot act, and this war that's been a weapon by Bush so that he could get elected to a second term and thus continue to deprave The US freedoms, by attempting to take away the filibuster, and this flag burning ammendment, hopefully the next president (Republican or Democrat) will have the common sense to stop this shit.
Originally posted by alcoholicpoet
It seems as though Republicans want to take over the US, They've been picking at american freedoms one by one, the first heavy hitter was the patriot act, and this war that's been a weapon by Bush so that he could get elected to a second term and thus continue to deprave The US freedoms, by attempting to take away the filibuster, and this flag burning ammendment, hopefully the next president (Republican or Democrat) will have the common sense to stop this shit.
I would rather have the Republicans take it over then the Terrorists(Would happen if a Democrat/Liberal was in the whitehouse)
Originally posted by FeceMan
Do I really?
yes 😐
no 😛 seriously though, oh man of feces, you have to acknowledge that many conservatives have a hypocritical view of the sacredness of our constitution. god forbid the prospect of having to give up assault rifles comes up, its "OUR FORFATHERS PUT THIS AMMENDMENT IN SO THAT...." and once the first ammendment comes up, suddenly the wisdom of our forfathers is superficial.
nobody should f*** with that document. it is a statement of citizens rights and government's restrictions and they are trying to flip and reverse that concept to restricting citizens. thats not the purpose of our constitution. you dont have to alter it to write federal law. i cant repeat that enough. they need to just leave it the feck alone.
The real question here is WHY should the flag be burn? What exactly are people expresing with burning a flag? So let's take the piece of cloth approach. Since all flags are pieces of cloth then I guess is perfectly fine if I grab the Canadian flag and use it to wipe my ass after using the toilet. After all, is only a piece of cloth right? And why stop there? Why don't I just grab all the European flags and put them in a pile and take a huge stinkin dump on them? Then I could trully said I shit all over a continent. And once done I take a shower and use the US and the Union Jack to clean my private parts. After all they are just pieces of cloth.