Well, this is great. Neocons are up in arms because it’s not sufficiently limiting to free speech (cite), so at least things have finally gotten bloody in the trenches. As much as Morissey and I might disagree regarding the nature of speech, he is right about one thing: this is not the way to address this issue. This Constitutional amendment is a sham, and the courts are going to eat away at it as much as they can. If the Neocons want to really do away with free speech as anything other than spoken or printed words, they need to be hitting the judges, not the symptoms of it. The problem is that people who want to be anti-American and burn flags will always find a new way to get around it — they already have (cite).

Admittedly, in a more benign setting, I might be persuaded to vote for a Constitutional amendment stating “The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States” (cite), but this amendment wasn’t put forward in order to keep people like Kid Rock from wearing US flags or stop parachuters dragging their flag parachute across the ground or punish suburbanites for flying their cloth flag after they let it be ripped to shreds in a hailstorm. This was put forward to reassert the frame that you either Obey or are a Traitor, and to show just how broken the spine of the Democratic party is. Since 10 have already agreed to defect (cite), I don’t exaclty have faith in the Doormatcrats as the Heroic Bastions of Freedom and Democracy, and I am really sad.

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