Re: Inconvenient lefties

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Last Friday, a Chicago alderman (there are cockroaches with higher social
standing) gave a speech at a rally outside city hall condemning Biden
and support for Israel in the war against Hamas. A veteran had burned a
special American flag

Why is it that burning the American flag is protected speech, but if you
burn an Alphabet Mafia rainbow flag, you can get arrested for a hate
crime?

You mean a flag that does not belong to you, not your own flag.

No, I mean any rainbow flag. If you go buy one yourself, then take it to
an anti-troon protest and burn it, it's a hate crime.

How is that a crime? "Hate crime" is an enhancement to an underlying
charge. It's not a free-standing charge anywhere that I am aware of.

But if you buy an American flag and take it to an Antifa riot and burn
it, protected speech.

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