Reply #286: You laugh?

[shawn703]

This is one of the stupid issues we take up that make us look hypocritical to many people who should be voting for us. We're supposed to be the defenders of free speech - it's okay to burn the Stars and Stripes, but not okay to display the Southern Cross?

Sure, you can say that you don't really want people who display the Confederate flag to vote for you anyway - but that's not the only group of people whose votes you're losing. There are many people out there who don't display the flag but don't think the government should be able to tell them whether or not they can have one either.

Really, you can point to just about any flag and condemn it because of atrocities that were committed while it was being flown. It doesn't mean everyone displaying the flag is displaying it out of support for those atrocities. Or does everyone who has an American flag support the "relocation" of the American Indians?