Hillary Clinton's Flag Desecration Pandering

Video from NY1 of Hillary Clinton pandering to the jingoist crowd with trying to make it a federal crime to desecrate an American flag. This would include flags outsourced to India and China.

Richard Cohen said it well:
"The First Amendment is where you simply do not go. It is sacred. It protects our most cherished rights -- religion, speech, press and assembly -- and while I sometimes turn viscerally angry when I see the flag despoiled, my emotions are akin to what I feel when neo-Nazis march. Repugnant or not, popular or not, it is all political speech. Her sponsorship of the flag measure calls for reconsideration all around -- either by Hillary Clinton and her support of the flag bill or by liberals and their support of her."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR20051214018...

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• Hillary
• Clinton
• pandering
• flag
• desecration

[lblbates]

these evil people, the Clintons, can never be alowed to get into the White House again. enough is enough.

[sombdy8]

The constitution allows for someone to burn the flag in protest. That is freedom of expression. All these politicians want to take away our liberties and freedoms. Vote Ron Paul to keep the constitution as the basis of our laws.

[dyaakov]

invading other countries by no reason should be unconstitutional

[HardforJesus]

Yeah, she's "pandering" to the first amendment. What a cunt.

[Bronzecop]

Burn a U.S. flag if you're against the U.S. becoming a military state, oh yeah & vote against it while your at it.

[poetsonghotmail]

Can't this be dealt with with local fire ordinances? I don't think you should be burning things on city streets anyway.

If burning things on the court house steps is legal than a flag should be no exception. But I can't believe you are allowed to start fires.

The free speech should be maintained. Anti-American demonstrates should be make social outcasts not arrested. Everyone who passes by should call them scumbags, it is your patriotic responsibility.

[JudgeJamal]

The ceremonial way to dispose of an American flag: Burn it (look it up).

Also, where is this epidemic of flag burning? Why is she wasting time on this?

She has no real policy.

[Raul48819]

The economy is falling apart. A war that has no end and is costing trillions. Dollar has gone to shit. Gas prices high. People without health care.

And this ignorant cunt along with the neocons are spending time on flag burning bills.

Priorities much?

[2025DPlaza]

Is the burning of American Flags fun for you??

No wonder you ignorant fucks don't like Hillary.

Go burn a Russian flag in Moscow and see what happens to you. DIE.

[grm246]

You silly fools...There is no Constitution, no free speech, no bill of rights, we are under the control of Rockefeller and the Federal Reserve International Bankers. Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Obama, Romney, McCain, and many others are all part of their plan (NOT CONSPIRACY) to grind the US to nothing, only to buy it all up once it hits bottom. Have you learned nothing from history??

Start petitions in your area, talk about the Federal Reserve and who owns it.

Ron Paul is the right guy