OMG!! Colin Powell hates American freedoms & supports burning the flag

[Bucky]

Can no one stop this monster? According to the ACLU, those dangerous, Godless ozone-coddlers who are trying to destroy our freedom by enforcing the so-called Bill of Rights, Colin Powell was on THEIR side of the flag burning argument as recently as 1999. Look at what this dangerous Rockefeller Republican said about flag burning in a letter to Patrick Leahy:

... I step back from amending the Constitution to relieve that outrage (burning God's ordained stars-n-stripes flag). The First Amendment exists to insure that freedom of speech and expression applies not just to that with which we agree or disagree, but also that which we find outrageous. I would not amend that great shield of democracy to hammer a few miscreants. The flag will be flying proudly long after they have slunk away....

If I were a member of Congress, I would not vote for the proposed amendment and would fully understand and respect the views of those who would. For or against, we all love our flag with equal devotion.

Sorry, you so-called "general", but the right, conservative, God-fearing opinion on this issue is literally a no-brainer. If you love the flag, you don't burn it; instead you burn people who try to disagree with their president coz that ain't lovin' America.

I believe in free speech and everything, but some ideas are so dangerous that they have to be stamped out before they cause people to start thinking!! Only that way can we save America from Al Queeda and unemployement gay marriage and massive budget deficits leaving our Children's Behind!

[Columbia]

1. Even a broken clock is right twice a day

[Carla in Ca]

2. I disagree with you

You either have it or you don't. You cannot be selective or at some point something you do or believe in will be the next target.
What's next? No bad-mouthing a president?

I don't approve of our flag being burned; it's disgusting. But I don't flag burning banned, I want to know who the nuts are!

If you start with one item, and then another, and then another, what do you have? No Democracy, thats what.

You say "but some ideas are so dangerous that they have to be stamped out before they cause people to start thinking".
I think your narrow view on this subject implies no thinking at all.

[Djinn]

3. I detected a fair whiff

of saracsm in the original post but I gotta say I worry about this quote Carla in Ca,

"But I don't flag burning banned, I want to know who the nuts are!"

why? what do you want done with them, why are they nuts, it's a flag they're burning, a piece of cloth that has no more meaning than what yuo instill in it.

[Carla in Ca]

4. Djinn,

it's a typo...I don't want flag burning banned, and your comment to it seems to agree with what I said.

[politicat]

5. nice to see colin scraping the mind control pod off the back of his neck.

oh. this isn't new. Jeez. Once upon a time, the man stood for Affirmative Action, reproductive rights, fiscal responsibility, and a political system based on merit.

Damn.

Once upon a time, Powell was a pretty decent guy. Then the neocons got a hold of him and promised him a good job and then hamstringed him.

Oh.... well....

Pcat

(Caveat: I come from a military family. Decent may have a different meaning for you if you're not military.)