A flag burning party? Huh?
Well the other day the US Senate by one vote fell short of making flag burning illegal. I mean it was such a pressing issue to. After all when was the last time you were out walking the dog and some ruffian was off burning Old Glory on the street?
1970′s ring a bell?
Seems to me that there are far more important issues to be debating than whether or not one’s freedom of speech should be restricted further or not, but hey, me not an American…. Thank God!
Still amazes me how so many get sucked in on this patriotic bullshit from Bush and his religious buddies. Like today some anti abortion Priest is bitching about Buffett giving away Billions to Charities. Like the guy made his cash, its his choice on who to give it to, just cause he supports a woman’s right of choice is no reason to compare him to a nazi.
Now the US Congress has also censored the NY Times for running a story about the Feds tracking finances of US Citizens in the name of terror. So like this is a surpise? Course the LA Times and US Today weren’t singled out even though they also ran the same story. So let me see, Free Press only applies when it favors Bush & Co?
Like this is Democracy?
Funny isn’t it, here we have George Bush pushing to wage a holy war to bring Democracy American Style to all us poor sub standard nations and yet this is also the same man who thinks he can run tribunals without laws, without clear protection of a person’s rights simply becuase they are terrorists in his mind.
Odd that in the same breath he also talks about God and his mission to bring real peace and democracy while at the same time demanding consititutional amendments to stop people from enjoying equal rights or the right of free speech.
Second thought, not so odd. After all isn’t that what Hitler wanted too? To order the world according to his idea of what it should be?
So back to the flag burning. Why isn’t there more citizens out in the streets today protesting? After all the generation that did it are also the one’s now in power. Kind of makes you wonder doesn’t it. If some President like Nixon or Johnson had wanted to prevent people from burning flags, the streets would be full of irate citizens doing just that. Protesting.
Funny, now they are in power and not a peep.
