Guy in military clothing with an American flag on his shoulder burns an American flag in front of the white house while being filmed by bystanders.
Apparently the EO declares burning flags in protest to be “incitement to riot”
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1n06xgy/detained_for_burning_the_american_flag/
Isn’t proper flag code to burn an American flag to retire it after it’s become tattered enough not to be a symbol of the US anymore?
There shouldn’t be any penalties for burning any flags of any kind. Freedom of speech is more important than any symbol.
B-b-but think of the PATRIOTS!!! They don’t want their feewings hurt by you burning a piece of fabric with the shapes they like way, way too much, is it too much to ask??/??//?? /s
100% this. If I bought the flag and I want to burn it. Then fuck anyone who says otherwise. It’s my property.
This is well-established law. A decision made by SCOTUS.
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.
So this is absolutely pathetic of the Trump administration. These charges have no chance of sticking. It’s just authoritarian bullying.
You know what else was well established law? I’ll wait.
Pretty much everything prior to this partisan Supreme Court. This new court just says “fuck it” and does what it wants.
He should have respected the flag, like making it black and white except one of the strips is blue. Or by putting it on an article of clothing like underwear so the flag can literally go up your butt. You know, “respect”.
/s
Or putting it on the back of your truck, where it will get covered in road grime, but you won’t care because you’re a ‘patriot’.
Also /s, of course.
Our maybe beating a police officer with the pole it’s mounted to
“How dare you exercise a constitutionally protected, right!“
– Trump, right before he deports this person, their entire family, and anyone who ever knew them
Inciting a riot? I dont think Trump is on any leg to make that accusation
Oh it doesn’t matter. None of this matters. The rules, the courts, the white house. It’s all bullshit.
I’m reminded of this bit on just wearing the flag
“You’re not going to get arrested for being in violation of the flag code. There’s no flag police,” Leepson says.
Later, the Supreme Court said 1974 that flag wearing was free speech, and in 1989 that flag burning was also free speech.
Ahhh… simpler times.
We should all be joining him… They going arrest millions of us? We neee to treat this like the No Kings Day. This shit is beyond unconstitutional. I wonder if Trump is trying to get that overturned? Womder what his SCOTUS will do with this one?
Didn’t we already have a supreme court case about this? Oh, right, we did. The arrogance of an executive order imposing intent of speech is just one more line of idiocy in the annals of this period.
Yeah I’m pretty sure that happened around the same time that the supreme Court agreed that abortion was a human right as well.
It would be crazy if they were to later contradict themselves.
It would be even crazier if we didn’t all arm ourselves, practice and prepare for the worst knowing damn well that we could easily outsmart people that are dumb enough to support fascism on a battlefield that is inevitably coming our way.
If I see someone burning a flag, is it okay to pee on it to put it out?
Burning the US flag is like the one thing everyone, all over the world, agrees is great, why do you have to be weird
So much for respecting the flag code
