The Flag Amendment has passed the US House AGAIN and will now go to the Senate where it faces it’s best chance for passage… ever. If the Senate should pass it, it will go to the states for ratification. It will require 39 states to ratify it. Predictions are that it will be the fastest ratification of an amendment to the US Constitution in history. All 50 states have passed resolutions supporting the Flag Amendment. In other words, if, and that is a big if, it gets through the Senate, it is a done deal.
The complaint against it, most often heard, is that burning a US Flag, in protest, is "protected free speech". Yeah, right!
The proposed amendment reads thusly: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." That’s it! Once it is passed... then, the Congress will have to rule on the wording of a new statutory law to protect the flag. The US Supreme Court, in 1990, made this clear. First comes the amendment and then the statute.
Time and time again polls have shown that nearly 80% of Americans approve of, and support, this amendment. They want their flag protected! A few on the left, and a few misguided individuals on the right, are standing in the way.
The vote in the US Senate is expected to be so close this year, that there is a chance the amendment could pass, or fail, by one vote. This is the shortcoming of a representative democracy… when the representatives refuse to represent their constituents. But that is why we have elections. It will be remembered how the Senators vote on this bill.
For a hundred years, until the Supreme Court threw it out, the law protected the flag. No longer. As of 1990, the Supreme Court ruling changed that. Now we must change it back.
Contact your Senators and demand that they vote in support of the US Flag Amendment. Do so right away.
How often has Old Glory protected us? Now, she is in need of our protection. Let’s do the right thing!
“Longstreet”
2 comments:
Oh shees! get for real, the majority could not and should not demand something that adimatley violates the constitution. Can you make a likeness of George W or Bill Clinton (when he was in?) and burn or ceremoniously hang it, behead it, etc? I doubt it, should you be able to, Hell Yeah! Would I burn a flag? HEll NO! Should I stop my neighbor? Again Hell No! I might fly "OLD GLORY" upside-down in protest, hey, that is acceptable practice, backwards is for distress. But there again it is Free Speech, when we limit the freedoms of any 1 person so we limit our own abilities to grow as a nation. If you want to be free you may have to let things you do not agree with go on. What if the majority of the people wanted to do away with protection from illegal search and seizures.... Ooooops they already did away with those protections... or miranda rigths..... also gone. Or protection of private property from Corporations..... wait our supreme court did away with those too. Hmmm maybe there is some amendment left.... Fredom of the press...... Nah thay are all owned by major conservative corporations. Mmmm maybe freedom of religion.... OOOPPPS not if you are Muslim....... I know freedom to travel freely within this nation. Well what do you know..... Federal seat belt laws. Maybe just maybe the ability to love and marry someone of one's own choosing. No not even that in America..... Oh yeah and under the patriot act, read certain books, rent certain movies, buy a fire arm, that is all traceable by the FBI....... Wow I wonder why anyone would want to burn a flag in protest.
and now with lgal firearms being siezed in new orleans, how much are we ameicans and I mean AMERICANS going to take, this is not a liberal or conservative issue, when our nation falls we won't have these cute little blogs anymore. Tyrany will have won.
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