When Flag Burning Is NOT Free Speech

[gatomontes99]

5 minutes ago, herbie said:

Yes, Did you? Probably, but as usual had zero understanding of what it meant and just accepted the propaganda again.

Then quote the part that says they will just prosecute for burning the flag and only for burning the flag. I mean, it's like a 1 page EO. I can't find it, but surely you can quote the part that says to prosecute only for burning the flag. 

[gatomontes99]

@herbie I'm waiting. 

[gatomontes99]

@herbie I am still waiting.

[gatomontes99]

@herbie I am still waiting.

[herbie]

So wait til hell freezes over like your brain did long ago.
Tell you when burning the flag is not free speech, it's when the flag store has such a surplus it has to burn them cuz they're getting mouldy.

Go buy yourself a Trumpy Bear, I hear they have a hidden compartment with spare toilet paper in them.

[gatomontes99]

29 minutes ago, herbie said:

So wait til hell freezes over like your brain did long ago.
Tell you when burning the flag is not free speech, it's when the flag store has such a surplus it has to burn them cuz they're getting mouldy.

Go buy yourself a Trumpy Bear, I hear they have a hidden compartment with spare toilet paper in them.

So you can't quote the EO? There is no language in there that makes flag burning illegal? Did you lie? I thought you had read the EO. 

[Shady]

On 8/26/2025 at 5:24 PM, TreeBeard said:

Are you in Canada, or USA?   You know our laws are different, don’t you?  

🤣 Right.  So you don’t actually believe in free speech.  It’s why you and your ilk have no credibility.

Burning flags for me but not for thee.  The libtard way.

 

Edited August 28, 2025 by Shady

[herbie]

The brain missed the whole interview where Trunp repeats over and over again how you'll get one year and exactly one year for burning the flag,

And Shady protests again the line between free speech and hate speech. 

[gatomontes99]

10 minutes ago, herbie said:

The brain missed the whole interview where Trunp repeats over and over again how you'll get one year and exactly one year for burning the flag,

And Shady protests again the line between free speech and hate speech. 

Do you want to quote where the EO says that? I know you can't. But I would love to see you try. 

[BeaverFever]

On 8/26/2025 at 9:24 AM, gatomontes99 said:

Everyone is going apeshit over this EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-the-american-flag-from-desecration/

The main argument is that flag burning is free speech. That is true. Like every other right, there are limits. You can't wrap a person in a flag, douse them in gas and light in on fire and still call it free speech. That is the point of the EO. 

The EO does not change the law, the constitution or anything else. What it does do, is direct AGs to enforce the laws, even if the flag is involved. Using the flag does not create an immunity from prosecution for other crimes. So if they burn it during a burn ban, an illegal protest or any other illegal activity, they will be prosecuted for that crime. The act of burning the flag is not the catalyst for prosecution, it just isn't the immunity. 

But assaulting the Capitol building, trashing and vandalizing it, literally pissing and shitting on its floor and seriously injuring 140 of the police officers whose job is to guard it…..perfectly ok right?  

Republicans have always been opposed to restrictions on hate speech, holocaust denial, racist and homophonic rants of every kind, abortion provider hit lists and so on in the name of being the true defenders of “free speech”. The hypocrisy is hilarious 

[User]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

The brain missed the whole interview where Trunp repeats over and over again how you'll get one year and exactly one year for burning the flag,

And Shady protests again the line between free speech and hate speech. 

And if Trump proclaims himself the queen of England... Herbie would be like: OMG, Trump said it, it must be true!

[Legato]

1 hour ago, herbie said:

The brain missed the whole interview where Trunp repeats over and over again how you'll get one year and exactly one year for burning the flag,

And Shady protests again the line between free speech and hate speech. 

So are you advocating the perps get five years?

[gatomontes99]

45 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

But assaulting the Capitol building, trashing and vandalizing it, literally pissing and shitting on its floor and seriously injuring 140 of the police officers whose job is to guard it…..perfectly ok right?  

Republicans have always been opposed to restrictions on hate speech, holocaust denial, racist and homophonic rants of every kind, abortion provider hit lists and so on in the name of being the true defenders of “free speech”. The hypocrisy is hilarious 

Wtf? Surely this is sarcasm or satire.

[BeaverFever]

11 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

Wtf? Surely this is sarcasm or satire.

Nope 100% truth. Republicans don’t think KKK should be outlawed. They don’t think flying the nazi flag should be outlawed. When those “very fine people” came out to endorse Trump he could barely bring himself to renounce them. 
 

And Republicans openly revere the Jan 6 insurrectionists. 

[User]

2 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Nope 100% truth. Republicans don’t think KKK should be outlawed. They don’t think flying the nazi flag should be outlawed. When those “very fine people” came out to endorse Trump he could barely bring himself to renounce them. 
 

And Republicans openly revere the Jan 6 insurrectionists. 

OMG, you are still pushing the "very fine people" lie. 

This has been debunked so many times now, we just have to assume you have absolutely no regard for being honest here. 

Especially with your garbage about "openly revere the J6 insurrectionists"

 

[BeaverFever]

6 hours ago, User said:

OMG, you are still pushing the "very fine people" lie. 

This has been debunked so many times now, we just have to assume you have absolutely no regard for being honest here. 

Especially with your garbage about "openly revere the J6 insurrectionists"

 

It has not been debunked

Yes Republicans openly revere the insurrectionists, claiming they’re just patriots defending the Constitution, political prisoners, pardoning them amd now a military funeral with full honours for Ashli Babbit  

 

 

 

 

 

[User]

55 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

It has not been debunked

Not only has it been debunked, any honest review of what he said makes it clear as day. Face it, you are not an honest person here. 

No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/