Reply #116: LOL, really friend, please before you embarrass yourself again

[MadHound]

Do some historical research. First off, Supreme Court verdicts don't get "overturned". The Supreme Court might reverse itself on an issue, but that doesn't happen "all the time". Out of the thousands upon thousands of verdicts that the Supreme Court has handed down over the years, only a relative few, a couple of handfuls have been reversed. And quite frankly that hasn't happened in the last thirty plus years.

And yes, I fully realize what went down at Skokie. I also realize that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the First Amendment and ruled that the Neo Nazis could march. That they didn't march takes nothing away from that ruling, for it was one more reinforcement in favor of free speech in this country.

And I was answering your hypothetical about guns with the statement that yes, they could have carried guns. I fully realize that they didn't, but thanks to our Second Amendment rights, they could have.

And there is no "seeing" about it friend. You don't have a legal or moral leg to stand on. Show me one, just one Supreme Court case that rules in favor of banning flag burning. I'll be waiting here patiently.

That you wish to tear down the First Amendment says a lot about you friend, probably more than you wish was out there. Don't you realize what kind of slippery slope such a law would start us down? First we're not allowed to burn the flag, then we're not allowed to criticize the government, don't you get it? That flag that you revere so much is important because it symbolizes the acceptance of all free expression, including expression that the majority of us don't like, like burning the flag. If you make a law putting shackles on the First Amendment you are doing this country much more damage than any dozen flag burners could do. You are taking away one of the things that makes America great, the right to speak one's mind. Why do you hate America so much that you're willing to throw away our right to free speech?