Flag Desecration at Georgia school. Veteran arrested while trying to stop it.

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Story is blowing up on my facebook because I have a lot of friends at the school

completely biased news story

http://m.valdostadailytimes.com/new...320-e559-11e4-93ad-dbffd6e2dfd8.html?mode=jqm

and a video of the incident.

Basically a club was protesting the US government's treatment of black people by walking on a flag. A girl in he air force took the flag from them and then the police came and arrested her.

In my opinion the police did the right thing, I mean the girl did steal the flag and it's perfectly legal to walk on an american flag.

What do you think GAF?
 
As a vet, i think another woman there should have popped her one. Vets do their shit so morons can walk on flags free of retribution.
 
A just arrest for the theft of an item.
There is little to be concerned about regarding the club's activities. The flag is nothing more than a piece of cloth manufactured in (most likely) a foreign land. The ideals of the country do not fade away with its desecration, and I would expect more discipline from one who is expected to defend the country.
 
That daily indoctrination is working well at the Air Force. What a stupid thing to get yourself arrested over.

RunWhiteBoyRun said:
Good for the Air Force girl. I don't respect anyone that walks on the flag.
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Why? The flag is just a symbol and that symbol doesn't mean the same thing to everyone in this country.
 
RunWhiteBoyRun said:
Seriously, stop jumping to conclusions. Fuck out of here I don't respect the 1st Amendment.
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What conclusion am I jumping to? You are supporting someone committing theft because others are exercising their 1st amendment rights. You are very literally disrespecting the first amendment and respecting theft in order to quash it,
 
LowKeyedUp said:
Oh not this argument.
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It's not even an argument, vets chose their own path regardless.

People can walk on, shit on, or burn the flag if they want. It's the land of the free after all. Acting like this somehow hurts you because you served in the military is fucking hilarious though.
 
The Adder said:
What conclusion am I jumping to? You are supporting someone committing theft because others are exercising their 1st amendment rights. You are very literally disrespecting the first amendment and respecting theft in order to quash it,
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I do respect the 1st amendment. I also support someone stopping someone else from stepping on the flag. I can do both.
 
We don't have the 1st Amendment to protect speech that everyone agrees with. She had no right to do that.

RunWhiteBoyRun said:
Seriously, stop jumping to conclusions. Fuck out of here I don't respect the 1st Amendment.
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You don't respect it if you endorse what this woman did. EDIT: Maybe that's too harsh, actually.

That said, a lot of people in this thread are hypocrites. If this had been a story about someone getting arrested for taking a "God Hates Fags" sign from WBC and ripping it to shreds, people would be applauding it.
 
RunWhiteBoyRun said:
Seriously, stop jumping to conclusions. Fuck out of here I don't respect the 1st Amendment.
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Then don't cheer some one trying to stop some one else's 1rst amendment by stealing their flag. And he didn't jump to conclusions, he just reworded what you said. A better complaint would have been, stop putting words in my mouth, cause that is more accurate of what he did.
 
Flag burning/desecrating is protected as symbolic speech, and rightfully so. The woman stepping in trying to take the flag was essentially a thief.
 
It's just a flag... Now, if it were a holy book, and someone did this to the Quran, then there would be more than an arrest.
 
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RunWhiteBoyRun said:
I do respect the 1st amendment. I also support someone stopping someone else from stepping on the flag. I can do both.
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Stepping on the flag is protected speech. Speech protected by the first amendment. Theft is a crime. It is not protected speech. If you support someone committing a crime in order to stop someone exercising their first amendment rights, you are disrespecting the first amendment.
 
bishoptl said:
Haha what?
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I am sure you can think of a few situations that could cause you to react harshly where someone is exercising first amendment rights.

If someone called my wife horrible names, I would probably punch them for example.

This doesn't mean I don't support the first amendment.

I don't give much of a fuck about flag desecration though. But that is just me.
 
Yaboosh said:
I am sure you can think of a few situations that could cause you to react harshly where someone is exercising first amendment rights.

If someone called my wife horrible names, I would probably punch them for example.

This doesn't mean I don't support the first amendment.

I don't give much of a fuck about flag desecration though. But that is just me.
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I think you are phrasing it better than I am, and expressing it much better than I am.
 
timetokill said:
To be fair


it's a pretty fucking sweet pattern, actually
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I've always thought it was little too 'boxy', harsh corners and such. I'd like it if the stars were in the middle, in a circular or oval pattern, and fewer, thicker stripes from top to bottom. Maybe even make the colors less muted (but not too much less muted, just a little bit less).
 
I go to this school and just heard about this today. No charges were filed and apparently the woman is out now. She is banned from the school though. That's what I've heard anyway.
 
Everyone in the video is an idiot.

The cops spent like 2 minutes trying to get her to give the flag back and she wouldn't do it, then was clutching it with a death grip even while they are arresting her. Like just let it go.

Members of the organization clamoring around the cops demanding to know "why hasn't she been shot yet" are likewise complete morons.
 
RunWhiteBoyRun said:
I do respect the 1st amendment. I also support someone stopping someone else from stepping on the flag. I can do both.
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Let us examine the statement "I can do both.".

1. I respect the first amendment.

2. The first amendment states: " No law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

3.I also support stopping someone else from stepping on the flag.

4. Stopping a person from stepping on the flag infringes on their rights stated in point 2, and as such, is in violation of the first amendment.

5. Therefore, both point 1 and the original statement can not be true at the same time.
 
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