Kosh
Quick Look Over There!
Prostrate this, bitch.So you DO want to pick and choose that which entails Free Speech.If you don't believe that flag burning is Protected Free Speech, then you nothing of either.You wrote: "The OP also brought up flag desecration - which is Free Speech,..."
That was a lie, wasn't it.
QED...you are a liar.
"The flag of the United States is sometimes symbolically burned, often in protest of the policies of the American government, both within the country and abroad. The United States Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), and reaffirmed in U.S. v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990), has ruled that due to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, it is unconstitutional for a government (whether federal, state, or municipality) to prohibit the desecration of a flag, due to its status as "symbolic speech." However, content-neutral restrictions may still be imposed to regulate the time, place, and manner of such expression.
In 1862, during the Union army's occupation of New Orleans in the American Civil War, the military governor, Benjamin Franklin Butler, sentenced William B. Mumford to death for removing an American flag. In 1864 John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, which told of a (probably fictional) incident in which Confederate soldiers were deterred from defacing an American flag. The poem contains the famous lines:
"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.
During the United States involvement in the Vietnam War American flags were sometimes burned during war protest demonstrations.[79]
After the Johnson and Eichman decisions, several flag burning amendments to the Constitution were proposed. On June 22, 2005, a Flag Desecration Amendment was passed by the House with the needed two-thirds majority. On June 27, 2006, another attempt to pass a ban on flag burning was rejected by the Senate in a close vote of 66 in favor, 34 opposed, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to send the amendment to be voted on by the states.[80]"
Flag desecration - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
I've made no statement about flag burning in this thread.
But your attempt to shift the thread is one more proof of the fear you have of the truth: Democrats fear and hate free speech.
Even though you said there was "no wiggle room" about laws made to prohibit it.
Your discussion is about only "certain forms" of Free Speech if you deny you brought it up-- which pretty much nukes your whole OP.
Admit you lied.
I demand nothing less than penitential prostration.
Then I shall consider forgiving you.
You don't get to pick and chose that which entails Free Speech just because it doesn't suit your argument.
Sound like what the far left drones do on this board and in this thread..