LSU Student Planning to Burn American Flag in "Peaceful Protest"

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  1. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    They just disagree with how Hass chose to express himself. Is that wrong? Do they not have the right to assemble too? Where is it writing that I must listen or watch one express themselves and wait until they are done to retort? Where is written that I cannot express my viewpoint while you express yours. Where does it say I can question my government's actions but not the actions of a fellow citizen.

    Hass has the right to freely express himself without the government suppressing it or censoring it (with 5 exceptions of course) but others are also free to do the same. If their chants/jeers/shouts drown out his message, so be it.


    Just because you have the right to do, does not free you from the consequences of your actions. If Hass would of simply said I’m holding a sit-in around the Memorial Tower to so my support for my buddy that went on a crime spree because I do not agree with his arrest…then he would have with all likely hood done so without a problem. In fact maybe a few peeps would of listen to his speech. However, he chose a manner that is offensive to the majority of Americans and his message was lost.
     
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  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Everybody sounds like republicans and democrats refusing to compromise on anything. Why not find solutions?

    They should make a firework that goes up 9000 feet, explodes into Old Glory and plays The Stars and Stripes Forever as it burns out. Then the fringe elements can line up to protest by burning the Rocketflag while the rest of us can enjoy the patriotic fireworks show. Presto, everybody is happy. I should have patented this. Somebody will have this on the market in a week.

    i hope they are on NASDAQ . . .
     
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  3. b_leblanc

    b_leblanc That's just my game...

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    Let me put it this way. Sure, you have the constitutional "right" to burn the American flag, your freedom of expression, wtf ever. Let me catch you burning the American flag in front of me and see what happens. I won't tolerate that sh*t. I've spent nights in a holding cell for whipping a man's ass, don't mind doing it again. Hell, lots of cops are ex-military anyways, they'd probably not even arrest me.
     
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  4. b_leblanc

    b_leblanc That's just my game...

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    Personally I hope the phucker and all his flag hating buddies get gonnorhea and die.
     
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  5. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    By July 4th with out a doubt
     
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  6. mobius481

    mobius481 Registered Member

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    They have a right to a peaceful assembly. Their assembly was very borderline. Almost everyone involved is a complete idiot in this situation. The first guy for stealing and vandalising, the Haas fella for protesting oppression of first amendment rights that weren't violated, and the mob that almost attacked a guy who was just trying to express his viewpoint even though it was not at all pertinent to the situation at all.
     
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  7. OkieTigerTK

    OkieTigerTK Tornado Alley

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    bingo. on all counts.
     
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  8. Bud Lee

    Bud Lee Call me buttercup

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    What we had yesterday was the abuse of the First Admendment by all parties.

    It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -- Mark Twain :usaflagwa

    Perhaps the peeps yesterday need to be a little more prudent in the future.
     
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  9. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Define "almost attacked", please. Because they chanted "USA" and called him a hippie? Maybe because they threw water balloons. Actually, they should have held on to those until he actually lit the flag. Then executed a Time On Target barrage.

    If its because he got jostled around in the crowd some, well that happens every time you gather a large impassioned crowd. Surely you don't go to an LSU game and get bounced around in the crowd leaving the stadium, and then claim you were almost assaulted? Probably some of the people protesting against Haas got bumped around worse than he did.
     
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  10. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    The guaranty of a person's right to free speech does not in turn guaranty that anyone has to listen to him.
     
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