What do you think about this?

Discussion in 'Free Speech Alley' started by saltyone, Apr 14, 2006.

  1. LSUsupaFan

    LSUsupaFan Founding Member

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    The law has to be inline with the Constitution, not the other way around. Time and again flag burning and other forms of desecration have been upheld as protected speech. The law you cite is unconstitutional.
     
  2. LSUDeek

    LSUDeek All That She Wants...

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    this is a useless fact. that's like saying according to martin God doesn't exist.
     
  3. LSUDeek

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    then get it overturned in courts... whoops! been tried already!
     
  4. LSUsupaFan

    LSUsupaFan Founding Member

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    No. I said that freedom of speech has been declared a universal human right. You said I was wrong, and I cited the declaration.
     
  5. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    few things are more pleasing than the desecration of symbols that people hold sacred. it reminds us of the difference between symbolism and reality. a flag burning, a flushed koran, a pooped-on bible, its all good in my book.
     
  6. LSUsupaFan

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    There is ample case law to overturn the cited law

    U.S. vs O'Brien
    Schat vs. U.S.
    Texas vs Johnson.

    All of the above say that flag desecration is protected speech.
     
  7. LSUDeek

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    i understand. i do not view the united nations as a body to have any authority to declare such things.
     
  8. LSUDeek

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    so why's it still on the books?
     
  9. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    if you don't recognize the authority of the UN to make such declarations, then wouldnt you agree that jesus is ultimate arbiter of such things, and that he wants everyone to have the right of free speech? WWJD?
     
  10. LSUsupaFan

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    Seeing as how every conviction ever made under it has been thrown out I don't know.
     

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