President Trump:Burn the Flag and lose your citizenship

Just like proposing tariffs. There is no need ----Just lower the cost of business and companies will want to be here. That's all you have to do to. Lower Regs. Lower Tax rates. Quite simple but libs don't get it.
 
Or they do and they try to obfuscate. Cased in point. If a stimulus package puts more money in folk's pockets to spend, then why would interest rate cuts be a bad thing? hmmmm? Doesn't that put more money in pockets?
 
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Pastor Terry Jones Arrested Before Planned Quran Burning : The Two ...
www.npr.org/sections/.../pastor-terry-jones-arrested-before-planned-quran-burning
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The article stated:

"in a press conference Sheriff Grady Judd said Jones had been stopped because his trailer did not have a license plate and he has been charged with "unlawful conveyance of fuel and unlawful carry of a firearm."

Essentially, Judd said, Jones was driving a "bomb" down the road."
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So I think that may have had a lot to do with it.

It appears he did successfully exercise his right before:

Of course, this is not the first time Jones has tried to burn a Quran. Back in 2010, Jones received a call from then Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking to stop a planned burning, because doing so would put U.S. soldiers at risk around the world. Jones did go through with a burning in April of 2012 and supervised a burning in 2011.
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And Gates was wrong to ask him to stop.
 
Tsing Tao said:
I don't like them, personally. But Trump needs to stand for the rights of all Americans, especially those whose actions he does not support - provided they are protected by the Constitution of the United States. That is his sacred duty as President of the United States.
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LOL! Tell that to asshat Obama. He respects nothing of "duty to uphold" nor "respect" for the US Constitution.... though he falsely swore to "uphold it".

I'm not "pounding the table" on flag burning, though I admit to being less comfortable with allowing it without consequence... if for no greater reason than as a matter of respect.
 
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This argument typically misses the fact that the flag is merely a symbol. What if, for example, a person burns a flag that has an extra star or stripe tucked into it? A casual observer likely wouldn't notice the difference, they'd "see" the American flag being burned, but it is not actually an American flag. Should they get angry?
 
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OH MY, love him or hate him, it's going to be one wild ride with this guy. Somebody needs to put a Twitter block app on his phone. Personally, I'd like to kick the shit out of these flag desecrators, but they do have the right to do it and a president who gets himself in a twist over this isn't very smart.
 
Tsing Tao said:
The article stated:

"in a press conference Sheriff Grady Judd said Jones had been stopped because his trailer did not have a license plate and he has been charged with "unlawful conveyance of fuel and unlawful carry of a firearm."

Essentially, Judd said, Jones was driving a "bomb" down the road."
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So I think that may have had a lot to do with it.

It appears he did successfully exercise his right before:

Of course, this is not the first time Jones has tried to burn a Quran. Back in 2010, Jones received a call from then Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking to stop a planned burning, because doing so would put U.S. soldiers at risk around the world. Jones did go through with a burning in April of 2012 and supervised a burning in 2011.
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And Gates was wrong to ask him to stop.
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Yes, it's just like the Benghazi filmmaker who wound up in jail. Exactly like it.
Hillary Clinton: 'We are going to have the filmmaker arrested.' | The ...

But he didn't go to jail for making the film, either.
Everyone knew the real reason that both the filmmaker and the pastor went to jail. That's why even NPR worded the headline to the story the way they worded it in the case of the Koran burning. Because that's the real reason he went to jail. And everyone knows it.
I don't think Trump could get away with saying, ok, you can burn the flag and then sending the authorities out to find some other reason to put them in jail.

A lot of us are pretty fed up with laws that only seem to apply when republicans are in office. Then they go back to only applying them selectively when the democrats get back in office. Just something to be used to get the political opposition.
If a law is not universal, it's not a law.

I don't know what the answer is to the dilemma, but the current state of affairs is untenable. Democrats can use the IRS to harass but republicans can't. And on and on. Something needs to be done about it or there is civil war in our future.
 
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