[81715] in Cypherpunks
Re: Flag Burning...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Tartaglia)
Fri Jun 13 09:15:35 1997
From: "Tim Tartaglia" <tag@silvix.sirinet.net>
To: "RS" <panther@writeme.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:47:03 -0500
In-Reply-To: <199706130521.BAA13934@ren.globecomm.net>
Reply-To: "Tim Tartaglia" <tag@silvix.sirinet.net>
On 13 Jun 97 at 1:20, RS wrote:
> To allow someone to publicly burn a flag is essentially displaying our
> freedom being burned.
This may seem counter-intuitive, but allowing someone to publicly
burn a flag is _demonstration_, not destruction, of the freedom we
celebrate. In fact, supporting other's right to utter speech that we find
distasteful is the purest form of "freedom and liberty."
Tag
