Trump: Jail time for people who burn the American flag

[Commodus]

Let me end this crap conversation by saying this: only stupid as- holes and terrorists alike burn their own Country flag,and therefore should be fined and jailed period,and if it's an emigrant alien should be deported

Only traitors to American values believe that harmless political dissent should lead to punishment.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Only traitors to American values believe that harmless political dissent should lead to punishment.

and those who don't follow the Constitution, don't forget that. has drumpf even read the constitution? Maybe had melania read it to him?

 

[pcgeek11]

Spoken like a true republican, the law only applies when I want for it to. Mens rea for conceiving the idea of beating a person and then actus rea for actually carrying it out. Assault for threatening the person and then battery for actually placing your hands upon them and hurting them. Barbarism indeed! Say did you attend the Richard Nixon school of integrity?

OK. That is the way I feel. I don't really care what you think.

 

[pcgeek11]

bring it, billy badass.

Yes, Come and try to burn my flag asshole.

 

[raildogg]

People getting emotional over some cloth called a flag?

Oh right, these same people fight others for looking different or belonging to a different religion.

Carry on.

 

[buckshot24]

This just in: Buckshot has declared that saying two things are similar is not comparing those two things. We should probably notify the rest of the English-speaking world of this development.

Yeah, a tweet was made by Trump some people remember Hillary proposing that we outlaw flag burning, then people compare the text of the tweet with the text of a fully fleshed out bill to show how dissimilar the ideas were. You didn't need to look at the bill to know Hillary proposed something similar. Stupid.

 

[dank69]

Let me end this crap conversation by saying this: only stupid as- holes and terrorists alike burn their own Country flag,and therefore should be fined and jailed period,and if it's an emigrant alien should be deported

If being an asshole was a jailable offense you'd be serving a few life sentences by now.

 

[John Connor]

No people did not die for that flag.

Who cares what other countries do. Should we perhaps look to China for influence on labor laws? Maybe Russia to model ourself for corruption. The possibilities are endless.

No, dumbass, men and women didn't fight for the flag! They fought for the ideals that it represents, one of which is the freedom of speech and the right to dissent.

I'm sure its just a minor oversight, fascist like you forget.

It's supposed to be a symbol of liberty. Punishing people for burning it seems counter to the meaning of the flag.

Why do you hate freedom so much? Are there other amendments you'd also like to trample all over?

You definitely got the president that you deserve.

No one cares what you would do. You're not the law. And just because other countries aren't free doesn't mean that America shouldn't be free.

 

[Brainonska511]

Your point?

You might find the speech of burning a flag offensive for various reasons, but why should it be outlawed? The first amendment protects speech. So why do you hate the Constitution so much?

 

[brycejones]

They died for the right to burn the flag. Get over it.

 

[Vic]

I'm sorry that your emotions cloud your ability to think logically. Unfortunately, if you and Trump were to get your way, then those brave patriots will have sacrificed their lives in vain.

 

[John Connor]

Your point?

My point is that you don't stomp on the flag when men and woman have been under it.

My point is you are all a bunch of contrived myopic idiots with no respect.

 

[John Connor]

Let me post a few more images.

 

[John Connor]

I'm sorry that your emotions cloud your ability to think logically. Unfortunately, if you and Trump were to get your way, then those brave patriots will have sacrificed their lives in vain.

When justice Scalia voted to allow flag burning he also said that if he could jail, and I'll paraphrase, the sandle wearing idiots he would.

 

[brycejones]

When justice Scalia voted to allow flag burning he also said that if he could jail, and I'll paraphrase, the sandle wearing idiots he would.

But he also said he couldn't because of what reason John? Come on, I think even you can figure this one out.

 

[Vic]

When justice Scalia voted to allow flag burning he also said that if he could jail, and I'll paraphrase, the sandle wearing idiots he would.

Sounds like his emotions didn't cloud his thinking.

 

[John Connor]

Don't be a hippie liberal and DON'T burn the fucking flag! Just Because you can doesn't mean you should.

Would you burn American currency?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Don't be a hippie liberal and DON'T burn the fucking flag! Just Because you can doesn't mean you should.

Would you burn American currency?

Don't be a fucktard wrapping yourself in the flag and crapping on the constitution. Your blathering and images of the flag have ZERO to do with the 1st amendment. Including the posed Iwo Jima shot. You do know that was posed for, and not an impromptu shot. Right?

 

[brycejones]

Don't be a hippie liberal and DON'T burn the fucking flag! Just Because you can doesn't mean you should.

Would you burn American currency?

some snowflake needs a safe space

 

[John Connor]

Apparently snowflakes need a safe space. My safe space is my gun room.

 

[Brainonska511]

My point is that you don't stomp on the flag when men and woman have been under it.

My point is you are all a bunch of contrived myopic idiots with no respect.

Piss off free speech hater. I wouldn't personally burn a flag, but it's someone's right in our country try to so it if they want.

 

[John Connor]

Piss off free speech hater. I wouldn't personally burn a flag, but it's someone's right in our country try to so it if they want.

LOL You piss off!

 

[Chaotic42]

Don't be a hippie liberal and DON'T burn the fucking flag! Just Because you can doesn't mean you should.

So what's the argument then? All people here are saying is that they can, not that they should. Free speech doesn't mean freedom from speech you don't like.

 

[John Connor]

So the leftist cry foul when it's about the 1st but never about the 2nd.

 

[Brainonska511]

So the leftist cry foul when it's about the 1st but never about the 2nd.

So you're fine trampling the first as long as you can rub your warm gun at night?