I Support Donald Trump

He threatens those who burn the American flag with jail or loss of citizenship 👍👍

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803567993036754944

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Northwest · M

It's not goI guess anywhere, because it's a bad idea.

For starters, he cannot create laws. That's for Congress, and both the Senate Majority and Minority leaders, said today, that they do not support it.

McConnell also said that it would be unconstitutional to do something like this.

The issue is freedom of speech, and in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that it's protected speech. Even Scalia voted for the ruling.

Why? Because it's a slippery slope. Define desecrating the flag? Is wearing a flag thong, desecrating the flag?

Is using a flag beach towel, desecrating it?

Will we be like Pakistan, trying to decide what desecrating the Qur'an means?

It's really scary that we're going to have a president, who does not understand what separation of powers means, and cannot think about the first amendment, and slippery slope implications.

There's a reason why the Supteme Court, ruled on it, the way it did, in 1969.

Next, someone is going to say that this is political correctness crap....

Cierzo · M

I know he cannot modify the constitution. He was expressing his desire, in hope to stir the public opinion and that congressmen and senators get the message.

Northwest · M

@Cierzo: This is not about modifying the Constitution. It's about interpreting it.

Some states, attempted, in 1968 to pass laws, banning burning the flag. This was an issue, because flags were burned, to protest the Vietnam war, a war that President Elect Trump, avoided because his family had money, and he got multiple deferments while in college, for a mysterious foot ailment, that disappeared, when he was no longer eligible for the draft.

But, I digress. The Supreme Court, in 1969, ruled that burning the flag, is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

The message was from Congress to the President Elect: you do not legislate, we do. It's something Trump needs to get used to. We have three branches of the Government, not a dictatorship. The President needs to think about the ramifications of what he says.