President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to penalize people who burn flags, although courts have long upheld the practice as legitimate expression under the First Amendment.
The order aims to prosecute people who burn flags associated with other violence, such as inciting a riot, the president said.
"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump said. "You will see flag burning stop immediately."
Conservatives have the weirdest boner for flags, and against flagburning. A thing that almost never happens.
It’ll probably be happening a lot more now
I have the urge… to buy a bunch of Made in China flags… and do some arts and crafts.
This is likely to apply more to conservatives than anyone else. Slapping words on a flag? Desecration. Using it for advertising? Desecration. Adding symbols (like guns)? Desecration. It’s not going to be enforced like that, but the hypocrisy is real.
The whole gimmick of conservatism is to bind people you don’t like with laws while exempting people you do like from the same laws. Nothing new.
The conservatives wallow in hypocrisy. These were the same assfucks that were calling themselves free speech absolutists, too.
As usual, they are absolutely full of shit.
You left out the thin blue line flag.
Flag burning happens all the time, mostly done by the Scouts.
Yup, 8 year old me was clearly a criminal.
I was a bit older than 8, but I learned to smoke weed in the Boy Scouts.
Ha, I wish my pack was that cool. I think the coolest thing we got to do was shoot guns and go skiing.
Also proper retirement of flags is done in a pyre. I was in boy scouts when I was a kid and we had to do it semi frequently.