As a veteran, I'd have a tough time looking the other way in the case of someone assaulting another for exercising a right. Assuming it's on private property and legal I see no justification for violence against the person.
Assuming it's public property (street/sidewalk) I don't believe there is justification for assault for the act of flag burning. Only justification to put out the fire. Physical attacks for any reason other than self defense are unjustified. That's what the leftists do.
But what if when you attack them they stand their ground and shoot you?this is an LTC state after all. Alternatively what if they pelt you mercilessly with stale beignets?
Wait didn't you say you were a retired cop? Now you're advocating violence to suppress people using their God given right to free speech?
You can say that again!
Give 'em a call, I'm sure they would be glad to hear from you.The federal courts ever deciding that it is "speech" was a STUPID decision that should be immediately reversed by the SCOTUS.
Give 'em a call, I'm sure they would be glad to hear form you.
Speak for yourself!......."nobody special" citizens like you/me...........
Speak for yourself!
Again, speak for yourself. I have them on speed dial. They take my calls. Maybe they have you on BLOCK?Certainly the SELF-IMPORTANT elites of the government believe that neither of us (nor likely any other member here) are important enough to even listen to.
zincwarrior,
WHERE/WHEN did I say that I would assault anyone?
(NEVER is the correct answer, though I freely admit that I'd enjoy taking a horsewhip to them. = I've lost too many friends to the TREASONOUS leftists to much care what happens to them.)
Nonetheless, flag-burning, stomping upon and/or defecating/urinating upon a flag (as members of "the Antifas FILTH" did at Charlottesville last week) is NOT FREE SPEECH; instead, it's "action". = WORDS have meaning & the Founders KNEW what "free speech" was/is.
The federal courts ever deciding that it is "speech" was a STUPID decision that should be immediately reversed by the SCOTUS. - Incidentally, the flag in the original decision was PRIVATE PROPERTY, which was pulled down from private property & burned/desecrated by a mob of rioters.
(In NC/SC/TX & in the rest of the South, I wouldn't be surprised to see police officers stand quietly by, while such scum were "worked over" by one or more GIs.)
yours, satx
The founders no more considered free speech to encompass only words than bearing arms to apply only to muskets. .
Except burning your own privately owned flag is not destroying public property. That's why the offenders in the OP can be prosecuted, but Bob the anarchist buying a flag and then burning it, is not.Younggun,
And you KNOW that exactly HOW??
Defacing/destroying public property has been a serious FELONY for at least 2 centuries rather than "free speech" or "free expression", as has committing arson, breaking windows, overturning/setting fire to police vehicles, etc.
Out Founding Fathers would be astounded that anyone of normal intelligence would ever believe that public defecating/urinating on the flag of the USA would EVER be considered "free speech", rather than UNLAWFUL action & which would be likely to cause a "reasonable man" to resort to violence to protect the flag from desecration. Further, I believe that Washington, Jefferson, Mason & the other Founders would consider such disgusting action to be an attack on the Republic itself.
yours, satx