If I was inclined to buy a flag, and then wished to burn said flag (again one that I purchased with fruits of my labor), how could one possibility see that as a violent act? We both know it is not. It may make people very upset, but as is repeated ad naseum, here, nobody have the right to not be offended.
If you then take that flag to a republican party rally for an AMERICAN election, burn that flag, then raise another nation's flag in its place that's a bit different than your typical flag burning. That's effectively saying that your party hates this country. That's not protesting the other party.
While it isn't an act of violence, it does paint a picture for what democrats actually stand for. Hatred of our nation, hatred of our flag, and violence towards peaceful people who just wanted to hear a speech.
Hey now, don't be so hard on Tombs, there's already been an in-thread warning.
[/FONT]After all, he's the one that is advocating for thought police.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]How does a nation survive people from the inside petitioning for the destruction of the nation, because they hate the rights that are guaranteed to the people?
[/FONT]Yes that's a philosophical issue.
Lets lay out a theoretical situation, as plenty of things like this have happened throughout history.
Russia plants people inside of the US who make use of the education system and social media to fire up political groups and rally them around the idea that the US is inherently bad and that we must change our government to be more like that of theirs. These people go on to snowball larger and larger groups of people until they've achieved nearly half of the population subscribing to the ideology that our country must be destroyed and taken over by another nation who knows better how to run us. They win over followers through all branches of government, and actively fight with their opponents in the streets. They finally put up some candidates for congress and president and win. The country is now history.
How would you propose to stop such a situation once it has already grown to be a large percentage of the population?
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