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Yes, but getting a year in jail for it is useless and absurd

Posted on: August 25, 2025 at 18:36:48 CT

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relative to almost any other criminal punishment. It is simply an expression of opinion. Many of those make little or no sense but jail time for it is xi, putin, etc, territory. We don't need or want to be in that area.

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Burning the American flag is despicable and makes me angry. - hokie VT - 8/25 16:51:22

Yes, but getting a year in jail for it is useless and absurd - GA Tiger MU - 8/25 18:36:48

Agree 100% as long as the flag is your property and it's - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/25 18:07:52

It's only illegal to burn an Isreali flag now (nm) - Seagull MU - 8/25 17:05:45

I'm sure you have a point, but… NM - hokie VT - 8/25 17:12:09

It was illegal until 1989(nm) - Spanky KU - 8/25 16:56:39

And unconstitutional the entire time it was legal. (nm) - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:02:39

Perhaps and perhaps not... from the founding of the US until - Spanky KU - 8/25 17:09:24

All of them (nm) - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:10:06

this is you being a troll (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 17:16:51

So why not the laws against flag burning prior to 1989?(nm) - Spanky KU - 8/25 17:11:34

Slavery was Constitutional too. Do you have a point?(nm) - TigerMatt STL - 8/25 17:12:40

It was not abolished via a Court Decision - Spanky KU - 8/25 17:13:29

It was abolished through military action despite being - TigerMatt STL - 8/25 17:19:55

No.. it wasn't - Spanky KU - 8/25 17:31:17

I did. The southern states left the union. There were not - TigerMatt STL - 8/25 17:53:46

Was Missouri a slave state that joined remained in the Union - Spanky KU - 8/25 18:26:49

Nah, the Union was preserved via military action - that was - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 18:02:19

TM thinks the Emancipation Proclomation freed all the slaves - Spanky KU - 8/25 18:37:12

Wrong. Ratifying the 13th amendment was a requirement to - TigerMatt STL - 8/25 18:17:16

When did Delaware ratify the 13th Amendment? - Spanky KU - 8/25 18:34:14

When did Mississippi ratify the 13th Amendment? - Spanky KU - 8/25 18:33:26

2013 - Calca STL - 8/25 18:56:51

When did Kentucky ratify the 13th Amendment? - Spanky KU - 8/25 18:30:36

Good point. Only the second two. (nm) - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:12:38

well done, no longer trolling (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 17:17:17

Right. We can’t know if something is unconstitutional - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:21:03

it would be awesome if that was sarcastic, unfortunately, - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 17:36:06

Or, there is this - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:40:38

Well, that’s what Spanky said. - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:39:25

Right, implying SCOTUS isn't all-knowing and most - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 17:53:21

Clearly not infallible. - haeffb MU - 8/25 17:57:48

That's never argued. What is argues is whether they - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 18:01:05

No, I don’t argue they were Constitutionally intended - haeffb MU - 8/25 18:10:24

stolen power, shockingly (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 19:47:47

like the Affordable Care Act (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 17:06:32

Like Trump’s tariffs.(nm) - TigerMatt STL - 8/25 17:10:38

very similar, yes. big gotcha, matt! (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 8/25 17:17:55

I wager that SCOTUS tosses Trump's IEEPA tariffs - Spanky KU - 8/25 17:12:40

It shouldn't have been (nm) - Seagull MU - 8/25 17:01:51