gbaji wrote:
I've posted at length about what the flag means to those who fly it, but the answer seems to be that because people who don't fly it think it means something else, then that's what it means, and so it should be banned.
Well, I don't think it should be banned. It's speech, not behavior. Other people have a right to their vile, disgusting opinions just as I have a right to my brilliant, thought provoking opinions. Opinions are like a-holes, everyone's got one and everyone's sure their a-hole doesn't stink. When you start telling people they cannot yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater, this is the result. Banning public displays of contemptible symbols. I'm sure Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is spinning in his grave right now. That remarkable jurist who wrote those wonderful words, along with others like, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." But, I digress.
Your arguments are headache-inducing because of the logical inconsistencies. The flag in question is a symbol. Symbols mean things to people who view them. The people who fly it view the symbol, and a lot of people who don't fly it view the symbol. The flag means what it means to each individual that views it. Apparently a great majority of the people who view it feel it is a bad symbol. So, go hang it on the wall in the back of your garage.
It's not mob rule because they
bribed with other concessionsconvinced enough legislators to vote a certain way. But you know all that. Please don't stop
trollingposting because I find that reading your posts are a shade better than working.
Thank you.
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"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering, April 1946.