Check out Scott (Dilbert) Adams blog, about the Flag Burning Amendment idea. It's very funny, although it (and the posts that follow) miss out on the most important, and ironic aspect of the entire issue. So I posted the following response to his blog.
Nice use of humor to address a subject that goes deeper than Congressmen trying to get their tator in front of the cameras during an election year. It's very (and I mean very) ironic that an amendment to make it illegal to burn our symbol of freedom would take more of our freedom away. The very basic foundation of freedom is property rights, which includes your person. If you do not have property rights, such as choosing what to do with your own body, or things you own because of your labor (cars, houses, guns, TV's, etc), then it is impossible to be free. Property rights are just that, rights to your property, and that is what the government is here to protect. Instead, they offer up the idea that if you buy a flag with your own money (which is nothing more than your previous labor saved up), that you are not free to do with it as you please? Surprising this would come from the pinheads in DC? No. Ironic? Absolutely.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
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