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burning an american flag doesn’t make you a terrorist…
Exactly. He doesn’t deserve injuries like that just for burning a flag.
Nope, he deserves much worse. I’d say at least permanent disability, maybe a few heart defects, if not outright death. If only…
Supporting constitutional rights FAIL
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you are allowed to burn a flag. The argument of flag burning being a form of speech and thus protected by the First Amendment is shaky at best. It has only been upheld as constitutional when done in an entirely peaceful situation, a non-violent, non-aggressive demonstration with clearly identifiable statements being made by the organizers of the event. Looking at the rabble around him, I seriously doubt that that’s the case, and therefore not Constitutional, especially since it looks to be a Middle East setting, a place where our Constitutional laws have no jurisdiction.
Long story short, you = fail accusation FAIL.
“Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you are allowed to burn a flag.”
Your Constitutional analysis has it exactly backwards — flagburning, and every other activity, are protected unless you can find something in the Constitution that authorizes their prohibition. The burden is on you.
Your mentality is precisely why the Founding Fathers were afraid of enumerating individual rights in the Constitution, and why they wrote the Tenth Amendment.
“The argument of flag burning being a form of speech and thus protected by the First Amendment is shaky at best.”
No, not shaky at all, or else you’d be able to mount a solid argument against it, but you didn’t even try. If flagburning is not a form of speech then neither is any other form of public theater, so the government can criminalize most protests.
“It has only been upheld as constitutional when done in an entirely peaceful situation, a non-violent, non-aggressive demonstration with clearly identifiable statements being made by the organizers of the event.”
Now you are just making stuff up. Show me the Supreme Court ruling where it says any of that. Flagburning is like any other form of speech, and has exactly the same protections and restrictions.
“it looks to be a Middle East setting, a place where our Constitutional laws have no jurisdiction.”
The setting of this photo is irrelevant, because the previous poster was responding to your comment. Do you live in the US? Then the Constitution applies to you.
You fail and you need a remedial education in US history, law and political science.
Uhhhh…………………………….Big Mac?
One please
Ooh, thanks for that! And you’re right, a refresher course for that poster is in order.
that reply was pure success.
Nowhere in the constitution does it say you *can’t*.
Hoooooly shit.
Perhaps not. But he does deserve to get burned for his haphazard
handling of gasoline. I mean come on , do you know what that stuff costs nowadays?
Talking about cost, why blow $2.50 on a single cigarette lighter?
I would if it was an awesome anime character butane lighter. ^_^
fag
I can get 8 for a dollar at the Marc’s down the street.
but burning any flag of any country makes you a fuckwit
if i saw someone burning my countrys flag id hit them even if there was a group of 20 of them doing it id give em ago even if i die because i love my country and my flag
I’d just call him dirty names with my friends and leave it at that…alive.
Yes, except you would not be alive… wake up
Wait, what? You *would* be alive if you didn’t try to kill them.
Patriotism fails. Dude, what is the point?
amen to that. it’s not like our government cares about us, so why should i have pride in my country. we’re the laughing stock of the world community. if the government did care about us then we would have healthcare, not infinite war. oh and whats even better is that they can’t even provide healthcare or even get disablity checks to the troops who were injured in this joke of a war, isn’t that great. fuck this country, these assholes that we DIDN’T elect have crashed the fucking plane into the fucking mountain.
im aussie my country does everything for me we have healthcare disability and all the good things hey if i dont have a job my country gives me money and helps me find a job so yeah proud to be aussie
You should have pride in your country because it is your country. If there’s something wrong with it, and yes, like every nation the US has its flaws, you should do something about it. Protest. Run for office. Start a new revolution and do government right. I don’t know. Don’t sit there badmouthing everything this country is and can stand for and insult those who do believe this country can be something great. That accomplishes nothing. If something is wrong, make it right.
IAWTC.
“burning any flag of any country makes you a fuckwit”
Not Thinking It Through Fail, unless you intended to condemn everybody who burned the flags of Nazi Germany, Soviet USSR, and every other odious government throughout history. Obviously it’s okay to burn some flags. But who decides which flags we are allowed to burn? Is that your job?
“if i saw someone burning my countrys flag id hit them”
A neat summary of an entire political movement. Let’s quote it again for truth.
“if i saw someone burning my countrys flag id hit them”
George Washington would be so proud of you.
i stand by any flag 100% that burning them is wrong and the nazi flag wasnt the countrys actual flag it was the partys flag and i wouldnt hae burnt a soviet flag either
george washington im not american so mehs
my countrys flag makes me so proud im willing to defend it with my life my family fought for our flag and people in ww1 and ww2 and many other wars
but we aussies are more proud then most countrys
“the nazi flag wasnt the countrys actual flag it was the partys flag”
Maybe do a little research next time. The Nazi party flag was indeed the sole official flag of the German nation from 1935 to 1945. Not that that’s relevant to the question of whether it’s okay to burn the official flag of Nazi Germany, whatever you think that flag was.
“i wouldnt hae burnt a soviet flag either” … Are you saying that everybody who burned a Soviet flag is a “fuckwit”? Everybody who burned a Nazi flag, or a Japanese rising sun flag, like plenty of your Aussie fathers did? Those flagburners were more man than you’ll ever be. You should respect them, even if you don’t respect George Washington because of his nationality.
i respect george washington. he is 20 foot tall and made of fucking radiation. cant argue with that.
Oh ffs don’t link all us Aussies with your ridiculous statements. You’re willing to defend a flag with your life? I mean, your country fair enough although, gee, you’ve picked one of the safest places on the earth to defend so not very hard to say that is it? But a FLAG? You would die for a piece of cloth? Sheesh.
While I am glad to be an american (I don’t aprove of everything our government does, but thats another story), I refuse to Worship a Piece. Of. Cloth.
Seriously, I respect the things the flag may be ment to symbolize, but the flag itself is just a piece of patterened cloth, nothing more. Someone somewhere burning one is only an insult if you choose to take it as such, if you ignore it, the action becomes meaningless, and then you’ve defeted their entire point.
No, just a terrorist sympathizer.
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Instant karma’s gonna get you…
Correct! And it is also not evil if you are against a State, no matter against which system!
He is just showing his stance. The “modern” governments just don’t have to do it this way, ’cause they got mass-media to manipulate.
If you can tell me that he would not kill someone burning his own flag, and that he would respect that person’s fight to free speech, then you can talk.
indeed, thats a political protest
actually burning a flag isn’t real political protest - it’s more like asshole-protest…
furthermore this pic definitely shows fail (since thats what getting urself burned while trying to burn a flag is) so i dont really see your problem
ALALALALALA!
i see two fails here:
1) the guy that made this pic
2) the guy that uploaded this pic here
3. The guy who can’t count in binary!
9. the guy who can’t count in octonary
A. the guy who can’t count in denary
X. the guy above
VERY win
maybe hes not a terrorist…
maybe he just dislikes assholes and the flags that represent them.
Yeah, that is a possibility.
Your welcome for all the help in WWI and WWII.
So basically, all Americans are assholes to you. And that kind of generalization is what got us here in the first place..
Dunce.
Really?
Being terrorists is what put the US where it is.
Don’t be surprised if you start seeing more of this going on right here at home if things don’t start turning around right quick…
Too bad there are so many people out there with such closed minds - “terrorist”, indeed.
Terrorists are from their point of view freedom fighters. To them, Dubya is trying to invade their land and kill their people. You’ve gotta remember, they didn’t just wake up one day and go “Hey, I think I’m gonna try and kill a load of Americans!”, it doesn’t work that way.
They were doing this WAAAAAY before Dubya… It has nothing to do with the liberation of Iraq.
America was brutalizing Muslims, directly and indirectly, long before the “liberation” of Iraq. But every new wound gives Muslims a new reason to hate America. So we should really stop encouraging them.
American has made muslim countries rich, we helped them to tap their resources and now we pay for those resources. We still send them aid. So, just how are we offending them? Cartoons of Mohammed? They shoudl be buring their own flags and attacking their own corrupt and inane governments, but of course, they would be killed if they did. Aren’t you glad you live here?
Learn to HISTORY.
Learn to EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN
Learn to NOT FAIL.
Learn to NOT GET THE LAST WORD FAIL
what about the state of israel? what do you think about having a group of rednecks living un your garden? vould you like that?
I think they got the idea from the Crusades. I wonder where the crusades originated from….
He’s indeed an asshole, but about the USA he’s right.
correct me if i’m wrong, but i think you’re meant to burn the flag and not yourself
Not everyone who protest again the questionable US-politics is a “terrorist asshole”. The people in the US once were so proud of their freedom of speech. Now this spirit is poisened with dump and unreflected patriotism.
And that same freedom of speech gives us the right to call him both a terrorist and an asshole if we wish.
Caption = FAIL!!!
This is a fail because the guy is stupid enough to catch himself on fire! And a caption fail - burning a flag does not make you a terrorist.