[81708] in Cypherpunks
Re: Flag Burning...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Jun 13 03:00:25 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706130521.BAA13934@ren.globecomm.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:23:00 -0700
To: "RS" <panther@writeme.com>, "CypherPunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 10:20 PM -0700 6/12/97, RS wrote:
>When it comes down to flag burning, It really bothers me that we allow our
>symbol of freedom to be burned. It's more than a flag and a right. It's a
>symbol of the freedom we have. To allow someone to publicly burn a flag is
>essentially displaying our freedom being burned.
When I was in Boy Scouts, they taught us that the only proper way to
dispose of a flag which was worn beyond use was to burn it.
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