Just wanted to briefly add my two cents... I thought the students of LSU shamed themselves. While I abhor the thought of burning a flag in protest of the U.S. governmental policies, it is far worse that a person's right to assembly and protest was stifled by intimidation by an angry mob.
No, Hawaii (1898) was an independent country and so was the West Florida Republic (1819), the Vermont Republic (1791), and the California Republic (1846). Hawaii, along with Texas, had formal diplomatic recognition internationally. No, but they have a legal right to divide themselves in up to five states. But that ain't the way Texans operate. They like things big. Louisiana became a state in 1812. The West Florida Republic was annexed by the United States in 1819.
I understand what you are saying, but freedom of expression is freedom of expression. The counter-protestors had a different style of bad judgement, but both parties were within their rights. The LSU Police Farce handled it poorly and should have kept the groups separated.
fyi contained chaos does not approve of purposeful spelling manipulations. he doesnt think it is funny.
water balloons? did they throw water baloons at the dude? anywayz i read the article today in the reveille: "Me having personally lost friends and my friends having lost friends through the armed forces for that flag" - some military dude not sure if it was for a flag that those guys died. a flag is a piece of dyed cloth, fella, not that important really. these morons are exactly like those muslims that freak when you burn the koran.
Don't hate freedom. I swore to defend this country from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, to defend the constitution of the United States of America. What I do hate are idiots that think they can burn the AMERICAN flag and get away with it, or protest one of my fallen comrades' funerals, in our own country nonetheless, then want to hide behind "freedom of expression" afterwards. Phuckin pussies, be a man and take what's coming to you. Then his punkass little buddy wants to hold a protest or whatever. If you want to get technical, first of all, the dude stole and destroyed someone else's property. When our constitution was written, our nation's forefathers couldn't fathom what our land would be like today. If they had even the slightest clue, don't you think they would've added some things and omitted others? I sure as hell do. Sure, every so often we amend the constitution, but for what purpose? We change laws and add new ones all the time. Why? Votes? So some crooked ass politician can stay in office and leech off of the people? So basically what I'm hearing is this....if someone broke into the Smithsonian and burned one of the original copies of the constitution, or the Declaration of Independence, it would be ok? That person would be protected under the first amendment? Bullsh*t. Let me catch you burning the American flag and I'll drop you where you stand, let me catch you protesting a fallen soldier's funeral, and I'll drop you where you stand, plain and simple. A fist to the nose and a steel toed boot the the chest is freedom of expression. I'm expressing my disgust in an obvious dumbass.
bad analogy. stealing and destroying someone else's property, against the law. destroying your own property, perfectly legal, even if distasteful. that is the difference the protester, haas, couldnt comprehend either. only the other way around.
