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Re: Re: @ Perfect Flag Burning Day
on sunday, i was hanging out with some friends of mine, and they were going
to go buy a flag at wal-mart so they could burn it. i asked them why, and
the only real response i got was giggles and jokes. this type of thing
disturbs me. i know it's nothing more than a piece of cloth, but if you're
going to burn something that stands for so much, you had better have a
reason. not just some silly, immature, ignorant fascination with being
rebellious(let's knock over port-a-potties!!) reminds me of a crashdog song
- mommy's little anarchist. "you paint A's on all the cans but you still
take out the trash"
here's another topic: is it disrespectful to leave a bible on the floor, to
rip pages out, to use them as rolling paper? i've had people reprimand me
for placing mine under my chair at church. discuss.
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>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.
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>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.
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