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Re: Re: @ Perfect Flag Burning Day
In a message dated 7/7/99 11:40:08 AM, Otherone wrote:
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><< The other point, of course, is that if it's your ideal to confront your
country,
>and you burn the flag and get thrown in jail, well, so what? Now you're a
martyr,
>and obviously your country's afraid of what you have to say, so there MUST
be something
>to it. >>
>
>Except you are a fined and jailed martyr.
>
>Let em burn it. They can never minimalize what it stands for or those who
fought
>for it.Better to protect the freedom than to put a symbol ahead of it.
Ummm...I was being facetious. That was my whole point.
We gave an object a symbolic power. But symbolic is the operative term. You
shouldn't go to jail for burning a piece of cloth. I'm sure our founding
fathers burned a few flags themselves.