New York – A small group of hard-left activists burned foot-long U.S. flags outside the Trump International Hotel in New York on Tuesday, in an angry response to a tweet by President-elect Donald Trump that flag-burners should face legal consequences.
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Social media was itself ablaze on Tuesday in response to Trump’s tweet, which suggested that burning the U.S. flag should be punishable by a year in jail or a revocation of citizenship.
Trump’s provocative tweets on flag-burning and other topics, including efforts to recount the Nov. 8 presidential vote, came as the Republican worked to fill his Cabinet in advance of his inauguration in January.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag-burning was not a crime but rather a form of protest protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. The high court has also ruled more than once that citizenship cannot be revoked.
U.S. media outlets, including the New York Times, published articles detailing the court rulings, and some Republicans as well as Democrats took to social media to say Trump was in effect threatening to punish dissent despite constitutional protections.
Trump supporters also took to social media, pointing out that many politicians, including Trump’s Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, had proposed making flag-burning illegal.
Clinton, while a U.S. senator, co-sponsored a 2005 bill that would have made it a crime to incite violence by burning a flag, threaten another person with a burning flag or destroy or damage a flag belonging to someone else. The measure failed.
Tuesday’s protest in New York involved seven members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a group that is not affiliated with the Communist Party of the United States, and whose members participated in flag-burning at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July.
It is not free speech. It’s an act of hate. Many have died for that flag. The flag burners discredit their sacrifices when they exercise their “protest”.
I would take all the flag burners ask them which country they prefer and ship them there. Yonosanw would give them a medal and be their grandpa forever.
Let these liberal idiots continue all their crybaby antics! All it’s doing is showing the world how corrupt, unamerican, and utterly stupid democrats are!!
Not that there’s any flag waving patriots in New Square or KJ.
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2. Merriam Webster:
lib·er·al·ism\ˈli-b(ə-)rə-ˌli-zəm\
noun
: belief in the value of social and political change in order to achieve progress
Full Definition
1 : the quality or state of being liberal
2 a often capitalized : a movement in modern Protestantism emphasizing intellectual liberty and the spiritual and ethical content of Christianity
b : a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard
c : a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties; specifically : such a philosophy that considers government as a crucial instrument for amelioration of social inequities (as those involving race, gender, or class)
d capitalized : the principles and policies of a Liberal party
lib·er·al·ist \-b(ə-)rə-list\ noun or adjective
lib·er·al·is·tic \ˌli-b(ə-)rə-ˈlis-tik\ adjective
Examples
liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good
First use: 1819;
3. Thank Liberalism for your religious liberties