What The Flag
July 20, 2022
Looking back at my younger years, dissenting against this and that, while protesting the intrusion of Gerald Ford within
sight of Independence Hall, on the occasion of the American bicentennial, a
fellow demonstrator, paying homage to the First Amendment, burned an American
flag. Many people believe that burning the flag should be a crime, not a perfectly
legitimate expression of one’s First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and
petition for redress against, say a fake president letting his criminal
predecessor walk away scot-free.
Looking back at the violent insurrection led by Donald Turmp on January 6, 2021, and the sight of Turmp’s white nationalist stooges attempting to overturn a legitimate election based on a Big Lie, using the flag not in service to the First Amendment, but in service instead to the Second Amendment, using American flags as weapons with which to assault law enforcement officer. This left me with a question:
Which
is worse, burning a flag as a symbol of one’s disapproval of our government’s
policies or using a flag to bludgeon law enforcement officers as a symbol of desiring
fascism?
This has been your Paying Attention™ Question
For The Day.
You're welcome.
What is your answer for the day?
No comments:
Post a Comment