As I mentioned yesterday, while Americans and people around the globe face real (and often really preventable) hardship, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Senate have chosen to devote their time this week and next to the bizarre task of passing an amendment to the United States Constitution to prevent…
…flag burning, maybe (maybe!) two instances of which have happened this year.
I’ve got to ask the question: what’s next? Some day, maybe some day soon, Republican politicians will actually pass this constitutional amendment through both houses of Congress. Then they’ll have to come up with some new wholly unnecessary legislative initiative banning some other harmless act nobody ever does that nevertheless bothers Republicans while distracting us all from the real problems that they’d rather not deal with.
What will it be?
- A constitutional amendment banning excessive glissandos in renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner?
- A new agency tasked with stamping out Satanic sacrifices in federal courthouses?
- A presidential directive forbidding the citizenry from writing “Gawd” in a mocking manner?
- Yet another constitutional amendment making it illegal to desecrate moms, apple pies, hot dogs and Chevrolets?
- A resolution declaring Jerry Falwell’s paunch a national monument, or Pat Robertson’s smile a national treasure?
Just what else can they pull out of their sleeves when they’ve milked this flag-burning cow for all it’s worth? Will they outlaw the tasteless mixing of metaphors? You tell me!
I think we need a Constitutional amendment making drawing the flag in crayon illegal! No matter how good you are with a crayon, there are always holes in the picture, and holes in the picture is desecration, desecration, I say!
We gots to stop these marauding hordes of desecraters! Lans sakes!
No…I think that it’ll be to set aside $150,000,000 to commision the addition of Dubya’s face on Mount Rushmore…I know it’ll happen…God told me so, in a vision…
No, wait…wait…It isn’t Dubya…oh shit..It’s Ronald Ray-gun!!!
I think we need a constitutional amendment declaring that Jenna Bush did NOT write the book of love.
Then, we desperately need another amendment to the constitution that forbids place-setters from putting the spoon on the left side of a plate. Damn place-setting non-conformists!
republican Posturing at its best(or worst) All they are trying to do is make the few civil-rights protecting democrats look bad.If they vote against the ammendment. they will be most assuredly voted out in ’06-’08, because the media will tear them a new one. By the way, what constitutes desecration of the flag? Surely burning it does, but what about stuffing a fat republican butt in a pair of Flag boxer shorts(literally wiping your ass with it), or using flag napkins to wipe the barbeque sauce off their fat faces at the sunday post-lynching picnic? Need I go on?
You must remember that the people who are now in power, and in fact most of the breed no matter what side of the aisle they sit on or label themselves as, are statists. And the present bunch are of the Sun King school of statists: i.e., THEY are the state. The recent supreme court decision pretty much says up front that everything you have is at the pleasure of the state, and citizenship is also to be meted out or taken at the whim of those who have the power. So, of course, they sort of let you have the spirit (flag) not the substance (true liberty as guarenteed by law), and THAT you are REQUIRED to pay hommage to.
On flag burning.
Does this mean that I can burn the flag of the Army of North Virginia (the so-called Rebel flag)?
Can I now legally destroy the flag of Nazi Germany?
Can I now piss on the flag of Grenada?
The whole subjects is ridiculous. Unless we make the desecration of ANY national emblem of ANY country a crime, then desecration of the American flag cannot be made a crime.
Incidentally, unless the flag is flown with dignity and honor and its use is for anything which may be considered un-patriotic, then at least 80% of the flag flyers are guilty of desecration every day. Who is gonna police them, Carl Rove’s thought police?
Call your Senator and Congressperson and insist that they get on with the impeachment of bush & C0 who daily descrate the flag by standing in its presence.
I am new to all of this. How am I to say? Your politics leave much to be unadmired!
George W. Bush is the president who is sure to be admired by all who love the folly of war.
Yeah, and John Murtha, who Nancy Pelosi wants to make Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, voted for this amendment. Nancy Pelosi is no liberal – she’s a political opportunist.
cant be drawn in crayon? are u some freak. whats wrong with it? its patriotic. if u dont like america u can just get out. ha ha
“if u dont like america u can just get out.”
I have to say I haven’t heard that one for a while. Is it resurgent, like a retro thing? Can you sing it to a disco beat? Because if you can’t sing it to a disco beat, I just won’t remember it by tomorrow, “cool.”