11-29-2016, 05:58 PM
(11-29-2016, 05:31 PM)I wonder what consequences Donald Trump wants for people who X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-29-2016, 03:56 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Our wonderful president whom supposed "libertarians" support, has a new proposal to violate our civil rights:
Trump suggests loss of citizenship or jail for those who burn U.S. flags
By John Wagner November 29 at 10:55 AM
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened loss of citizenship or jail for those who burn the American flag, saying such protests — which the Supreme Court has declared to be free speech — should carry “consequences.”
Trump offered his thoughts in an early-morning post on Twitter, saying, “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag.”
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Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
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This makes me want to strip some scum of their Citizenship.
As Jesse Jackson says, "I am more concerned about people burning crosses than about people burning the flag!"
Burning the Flag of the USA is a puerile,. asinine, and pointless form of protest. It just does not look good. I am sure that there were plenty of emaciated people at Dachau, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen delighted to see Old Glory instead of the Cross-of-Satan flag. Hunger, beatings, and fear of outright murder came to an end. One could again pray, speak, write, and read as one wished. One needed not be able to name the forty-eight states of the time or recognize why the American flag has thirteen stripes.
Burning the US flag is not as objectionable as making it stand as a symbol of loyalty to a pathological regime. We may have such a regime, one in which unquestioning loyalty to political leaders and a harsh class system are the mandated measures of patriotism.
Should I protest or demonstrate, then I will do so out of patriotism, knowing that such characteristics as
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections
are unmitigated pathology.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.