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July 05, 2005

Picking and Choosing

The Strib is all about liberty.

As long as it's an outrageous liberty:

That logic is straightforward: Amending the Constitution to allow the outlawing of flag desecration is, plain and simple, limiting liberty. It is limiting one of the most precious liberties that Americans celebrate on Independence Day -- the freedom to express political opinions.

Few would disagree that flag desecration, no matter how one defines desecration, is an act of political expression. The fact that it is offensive makes it no less so. In fact, citizens don't need constitutional protection for inoffensive speech. As former Secretary of State Colin Powell once put it, "The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but also that which we find outrageous."

So the Strib is all for freedom of speech.

Unless it's actual citizens trying to speak about elections; the Strib tacitly endorsed the McCain-Feingold Speech Rationing law in this op-ed by Walter Mondale, this cartoon by in-house shill cartoonist Steve Sack, and by their deafening silence on the hypocrisy of rationing speech to citizens and their grassroots organizations, while leaving the legacy media exempt.

"Free speech for me, but not for thee" indeed.

Unless you want to burn a flag, of course.

Posted by Mitch at July 5, 2005 07:18 PM | TrackBack
Comments

What's your point, Mitch? Do you want this flag burning amendment?

It's always seemed that the flag burning amendment supporters used similar tactics as hate crimes laws supporters - suggesting that those who oppose these laws - or amendments - therefore support flag burning, or hate crimes. In both cases, this is pandering to the stupid vote.

Posted by: Eva Young at July 6, 2005 11:17 PM

"What's your point, Mitch? Do you want this flag burning amendment?"

Eva, I've tolerated your comments so far because most of your comments betray an obsessiveness that is entertaining in that sort of "Felix Unger picks the pits out of his orange juice" kind of way, and occasionally, once in a great while, you contribute something.

This comment has descended to a level of nagging priggishness that's no longer funny. I've been opposing flag burning on this blog since the very beginning...

http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/000652.html

...and within the past two weeks...

http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/005926.html

And many times in between. Asking if I support flag burning is like my asking if you really support Michele Bachmann.

I'm the guy who errs on the side of civil liberties, remember?

Of course you don't. Dumb question.

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