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spideypunx · 4 months ago
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culturevulturette · 5 months ago
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Both should be protected political speech, provided the flag being burned is the property of the person/people doing the burning.
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todaysdocument · 4 months ago
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Letter from Frank Sinatra to George H. W. Bush
Collection GB-WHORM: Records of the White House Office of Records Management (George H.W. Bush Administration)Series: Subject Files on Judicial and Legal Matters
[handwritten top left] 8
[handwritten top right] 50258
[handwritten left margin] Jan Burmeister
FRANK SINATRA
June 29, 1989
Dear Mr. President:
I applaud you long and loud for your reaction to
the Supreme Court ruling which permits the
burning of the banner you so proudly hail to the
world.
Be assured, Sir, I march in your parade with
millions of our fellow countrymen and women who
are outraged at the behavior of those to whom
our flag in flames receive the benediction of the
First Amendment behind which too many have hidden
for too long.
And I must add that if torching the ultimate
symbol of decency and freedom in the world is our
generation's expression of freedom of speech then
surely the matter now rejected by the Court must
enter the legislative arena where this monumental
wrong must be righted.
I urge you to be the Washington and Jefferson and
Lincoln of our time and continue speaking out as
I feel they would have spoken out had such an
insult been legalized in their occupancy of what
is now your office.
God bless you and your Barbara. The mountains you
climb are taller than ours. We know that. We also
know our faith in you extends from the East to the
West and that our dreams and hopes are in safe hands.
You have, as always, my prayers.
Respectfully,
[signed] Francis Albert
President George Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
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nando161mando · 4 months ago
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For those that celebrate
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justinspoliticalcorner · 2 months ago
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Nikki McCann Ramírez at Rolling Stone:
On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a show of selectively exiting the presidential race and throwing his support behind Donald Trump, hailing the former president as a champion of free speech. Less than a week later, Trump is already promising to crush First Amendment protections if elected in November.  On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.  “I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.  “They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”
People may tell Trump that jailing anyone who burns the flag is unconstitutional because burning the flag is protected by the First Amendment. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” RFK Jr. has long claimed that the government is censoring him in various ways, and on Friday blamed his failed attempt at a viable run for the presidency on “16 months of censorship, of not being able to get on any network really except for Fox.”
Kennedy added that the Democratic Party had “become the party of the war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, big money.” He cited Trump’s stances on free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on children as his justification for endorsing the former president. “These are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,” he said. The endorsement may have also had something to do with Trump’s receptiveness to bringing Kennedy into his administration if he wins. Earlier this month The Washington Post reported that Kennedy’s campaign had attempted to secure meetings with Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign to discuss a potential role for him in her administration should she win the White House — to no avail. Kennedy held similar discussions with the Trump campaign in the time period surrounding the Republican National Convention. 
Avowed 1st Amendment enemy Donald Trump seeks to restrict the 1A if he is elected this November.
If you want to see the 1st Amendment protected, vote Kamala Harris!
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aholefilledwithtwigs · 1 year ago
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✨chill lofi beats for burning american flags✨
🔥🇺🇸🔥
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eretzyisrael · 1 year ago
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kropotkindersurprise · 2 years ago
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May 1, 2023 - Some antifascists used May Day to collect and dispose of some roadside trash from their area in Georgia, USA. [video]
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secular-jew · 3 months ago
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I wonder what Obama is doing in England?
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dadaonice · 5 months ago
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Fuck monarchy.
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aquietwhyme · 3 months ago
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Kamela Harris, the presumptive presidential nominee for the US's left-most major party (ha!) thinks burning cloth is a more disgusting act than murdering a hundred thousand people, and that's all you really need to know to understand the state of US politics at the moment.
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emperornorton47 · 11 months ago
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raneyserket · 1 year ago
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Happy 4th.
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seraphim777s · 2 years ago
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burn
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nando161mando · 4 months ago
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kontextmaschine · 1 year ago
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Wait a second, I got a new good flag for Independence Day so I'm supposed to… burn the old shitty one, right?
civic ritual
civic ritual
CIVIC RITUAL
CIVIC RITUAL
CIVIC RITUAL
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