This year marks the 30th anniversary of the most famous plays in the history of Major League Baseball. It was Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday who snatched a U.S. Flag away from a couple of protesters at Dodger stadium before they could send the flag to a fiery demise. On Wednesday, Rick Monday who hit 32 home runs and batted .272 in 1976, posed with that very flag at a rally in Washington for a proposed Constitutional amendment to ban flag burning.
The proposal is an absolute sham.
It's a complete contradiction of what the flag symbolizes. Yes, I would agree and some will that burning our flag is an extreme form of getting your point across.
But, then again, invading a country under lies and deceptions for oil is even more extreme.
The current state of the Conservative control government is to suppress speech that doesn't fall in order with the values of the Conservative movement. And, one of those values is to love your country, unconditionally.
So what if Joe Blow wants to burn his flag, or John Doe wants to clean his rectal cavity with it. The current administration, the crooked thieves that is occupying the White House has made it much easier to be dissatisfied with the direction our nation is headed.
We've got a President who is willing to take orders from the Christian right (A.K.A. American Taliban) who want nothing more than to rewrite the Constiution in order to install a theocracy that would make countries like Iran blush with envy.
We've got the GOP, uniting with Ann Coulter in their attempt to squash the 9/11 widows from demanding answers to why 3,000 people died on George Bush's watch on 9/11.
We've got Marines killing innocent civilians in Iraq.
We've got Tony Snow, declaring that 2,500 American dead in Iraq, is "just a number."
And, finally, we've got those in the Democratic party, the one party that is supposed to be defending free speech, campaigning for this ridiculous proposal to ban flag burning.
So, I say, burn the son of a bitch.
Why should we be proud of this nation and its most pathetic?
We're supposed to be defending everyone's right to free speech, not suppress it, in order to prove to another country that we're more patriotic.
Is this what the founding fathers had in mind?
I suppose burning the flag wasn't on their list, but, I don't believe writing in a provision to suppress free speech into the constitution wouldn't please them at all.
The flag is ours.
It's for everyone to be proud of, die for, and to be disgusted with at the same time.
Those who want to suppress free speech in the name of patriotism, don't love the flag.
Nor, love their country.
If you love this country, it should be your duty to protect the most sacred of our freedoms, and that's freedom of speech. Free to express yourself in anger for what is going on this country.
If this proposal does go through, then you might as well just burn the flag, because all of our freedoms that we so love, will just go up in smoke.