Re: Rush Limbaugh Belongs in Jail; His "Operation Chaos" is a Violation of Federal Election Laws

On Fri, 9 May 2008 21:46:45 -0500, "Eddie Haskell" <hhshsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

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>"Rudy Canoza" <pipes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Why do you feel the need to put words in my mouth?
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>> I didn't put words in your mouth.
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>>> Burning a flag is setting a fire. There is no constitutional right to
set 
>>> a fire. That's ludicrous.
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>> Look, STUPID:  the proposed constitutional amendment is *NOT* about 
>> "setting a fire", and you ****ing well know it.  It's about destroying
the 
>> flag, period.  You ****ing well know that, too.  Here's the language of

>> the current propose constitutional amendment:
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>>    The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration
of
>>    the flag of the United States.
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>> Not a word about "fire" in there, you stupid smarmy little ****.  But
you 
>> knew that; you just thought, wrongly, that you were a cute smarmy
little 
>> ****, and could play cute.
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>> **** off.
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>Again you put words in my mouth. I never said anything about a 
>constitutional amendment. That's in your head and you are projecting. I
said 
>that burning a flag is setting a fire. That's a simple fact. Maybe you 
>haven't noticed but the SC has already ruled that flag burning is 
>constitutionally protected. So what the hell are you ranting over an 
>amendment for?
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>My point is that the SC is FOS. Any municipality has the perfect right to

>regulate the burning of fires and that because it happens to be a piece
of 
>cloth that represents the US or anything else that someone wants to call
a 
>protest does not make it a right.
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>That's ludicrous.
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>-Eddie Haskell
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Indeed.  One could argue that the shooting off of fireworks on the
fourth of July is an exercise in free speech as well as a political
statement but it is still heavily regulated and typically banned in
most municipalities for safety concerns alone.
Last summer in north Mississippi there was a burn ban due to a
drought.  You took a big chance of going to jail if a cop spotted you
just thumping a cigarette butt out of your car.  In a lot of places
you take that chance burn ban or not.

Now if the protester shows up with a little hibachi or BBQ grill and
wants to use the flag to start the charcoal, in other words burn it in
a legal manner, then they can have at it.

Personally I find it to be kinda childish regardless of whose flag it
is but if it makes 'em happy and keeps them from tearing up something
that belongs to someone else then fine.





Regards


Starkiller