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If I had it my way anybody that burned the flag would get 10 years. Thank you Trump for sticking up for the American flag. God Bless You
I AM RETIRED USAF MILIARY AND HATE TO SEE THE FLAG BURNED. AND I HATE TO SEE COPIES OF HOLY BIBLES OR THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OR THE CONSTITUTION BURNED. BUT AND I REPEAT BUT, OUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED TO ALLOW THAT FREEDOM. IF THOSE BURNINGS HARM PEOPLE AND/OR PROPERTY, THEN JAIL THEM.
Jailing them costs us money
A work camp and a fine
The US flag burners most definitely need to be held accountable
I'm all for showing love for our country, but going against the Supreme Court's ruling feels like we're skating on thin ice. It's essential we honor the Constitution—even when it's tough or unpopular. Makes me wonder what happened to respecting checks and balances..?
What's wrong with standing up for our country? Supreme Court or not, the flag is more than thread and dye; it represents the sacrifice and spirit of America. This isn't about checks and balances; it's about respecting what makes America the greatest. Sometimes courts get it wrong, especially when it comes to national pride. Just because a decision was made decades ago doesn't make it untouchable. We need a leader who puts America first, even when it means challenging outdated rulings. If defending the flag is breaking the rules, maybe those rules need a closer look.
Then let’s take it to the court again. I am against giving any one person power to ignore the Constitution or laws.
I believe people burning the flag should be JAILED PEOPLE WHO WAVE OTHER COUNTRles flag should be sent to that country the flag is from good reta ce
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Any infringement on freedom of speech is a threat to all of us.
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While this may be a form of freedom of speech so is yelling fire in a movie theater, which you can be prosicuted for.
I believe that showing our patriotism to country is first. If a person burns our flag or defaces it in any way should have a huge fine and if it is not paid then go to jail. This is our country and we should protect it in any way we can.
Desecration of the flag, including burning, is despicable and morally deplorable. Our right of free speech, however, is inviable and bedrock America. The President's order will be struck down by the Supreme Court in short order.
If any migrants burn flag, then deportation is the answer. Whether legal or not, if you don’t like America then leave.
No place in the US Constotution does it say that it's ok to burn the American flag on our soil! That is an act of disgrace!
Maybe those who are doing it would be happier living in a different country! I highly doubt that though. If the president thinks they should do jail time for it then maybe he's right.
The last option has to have been written by liberals. Burning the US flag is NOT an 'aspect of free speech's;ITS TREASON!!!
If there is no consequences for the improper burners of the flag. Then there should be no consequences for anyone who stops the improper burning of the flag. Example its your freedom of speech to burn that flag. It's also my freedom of speech to beat your ass for burning that flag.
You wanna burn it? Well, be prepared to earn it. If I knock you out then you ain't burning nothing. No consequences for you and no consequences for me.
Absolutely!
Yes Gail time
Think we ought to bring back flogging!
Do not burn our American Flag!
Do not allow the burning of our Flag.
I’m good with a fine & jail time
JAIL TIME FOR ANYONE BURNING OUR FLAG. IF YOU DON'T LIKE OUR COUNTRY LEAVE. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE. IT'S APPAULING.
Retired Navy they are within their rights but I believe the law should be changed no jail but HEAVY fines maybe 2nd time arrest and get fined spend a night behind bars!
if the founding fathers thought burning our flag in protest was worthy of jail time, it would be. I think they might have anticipated a strong protest symbol instead of burning a building down.
It was always a crime spelled out in the Constitution until the Democratic Supreme Court at the time decided to go against the amendment to the constitution and make it a first amendment right.
My Oath of enlistment swore to uphold thw Constitution. However, I don't see it an act of free speech, considering if I were to burn the Rainbow or LGBT flag is regarded as hate speech and will land folks in jail. Burning the US flag is an act of defiance, plain and simple. Especially when it that act is committed by non US citizens. People here have it so good they are spoiled. Try going to another country and burning their flag. FAFO!
Yes! Finally, a leader willing to defend the flag and our values! #MAGA
For those who have no respect for our flag and all that have died defending it for our freedom, please LEAVE our Country.
We don't want you here.
Fully back Constitution.
There is a proper burning to lay to rest. Where does that come into play with this?
Using Constitution to manipulate destroying within is games that needs stopped.
Yes agree jail for burning as a sign of destroying trashing us. But should have stipulation put in to back such law. It's forcing a nasty slope when stipulations would protect both ways.
No other nations flag shouldn't be flown on our soil either, why wasnt that put in?
Can't have one but except another!
Using manipulation to abuse Constitution to bring our country down within is totally unexceptable.
The demonic forces need stopped.
Stipulations must be used in such too.
Not good to see tons of flags in landfills, that's why there is proper burning to lay to rest, that's respect, So where will thos lay without stipulation?
Seeing tons of flags in landfill. Agree but don't agree. But fully agree when done as a message by those who want destruction to our nation. Must enforce respect, honor but a
Actually had to read the definition of insurrection and I believe the act of flag burning may fall under this definition: It is an act of open revolt against civil authority or a constitutional government. This is probably something that needs to be passed by Congress. Executive orders are worthless.
Quite a stretch in my opinion to say that burning the flag is allowed as free speech by the Constitution. There is no place in that document that makes that statement, and that statement is dangerous on its face!!!
Free speech includes speech we don't like. To me, flagburning is an appalling insult to men like my father, and all veterans of all our wars.
Yet they paid in blood for the right to do so.
It should be considered treason to burn the United States of America's flag…to disrespect it in anyway!
Burning the flag is only allowed when the flag is worn/torn and needs to be 'retired.' Usually the American Legion Posts have a ceremony for that kind of event. Otherwise, those who burn our American flag should be held accountable for their actions. The type of punishment may need to be debated or voted upon.
If burning the "rainbow" flag is "hate speech",how is burning the American flag not equally hate speech?? The American flag represents thousands of people who sacrificed their life to defend our way of life.
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In a dramatic Oval Office ceremony, the President of the United States signed a new executive order. “If you burn a flag,” he declared, “you get one year in jail.” This is not, however, a simple act of patriotic enforcement.
It is an act of open political defiance. The President’s order is in direct and unambiguous conflict with a landmark Supreme Court precedent that has been the law of the land for more than three decades.
This is a story about the First Amendment, the limits of presidential power, and one of the most difficult and profound principles of a free society: the protection of speech we hate.
A Presidential Order vs. a Supreme Court Precedent
The President’s directive is clear. But the law of the land, as defined by the Supreme Court, is equally clear in the opposite direction.
In the 1989 case Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that burning the American flag is a form of “symbolic speech” protected by the First Amendment. A year later, in United States v. Eichman, the Court struck down a federal law passed by Congress that tried to ban the practice. The Court’s position has been consistent and unwavering.
The Constitutional Principle: Protecting Hateful Ideas
The reasoning behind the Court’s decisions is the very bedrock of the First Amendment. Its purpose is not to protect popular or agreeable speech; it is to protect unpopular, offensive, and even deeply hateful expression from government censorship.
The majority in Texas v. Johnson argued that the government cannot mandate patriotism by punishing those who show contempt for its symbols.
The Court’s answer to an act like flag burning is not to jail the perpetrator, but for other citizens to engage in “more speech” – to wave their own flags, to salute them, to reaffirm their own love of country.
In the marketplace of ideas, the government cannot put its thumb on the scale.
The Scalia Paradox: A Lesson in Constitutional Duty
The most powerful lesson from the flag burning cases comes from one of the Court’s most revered conservative icons: the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia personally detested the act of flag burning and said he would have jailed the “bearded weirdo” who did it if he were a king.
But, as he famously explained, he was not a king; he was a judge, sworn to uphold the Constitution. He cast the deciding fifth vote in favor of protecting flag burning, not because he liked the act, but because he believed the First Amendment’s protection of free expression demanded it.
It is the ultimate example of a judge separating personal feeling from constitutional duty.
This brings us to the President’s executive order, which is not a serious legal document, but an act of political theater. The White House’s own quiet admission that the DOJ will only bring charges “where prosecution wouldn’t fall afoul of the First Amendment” is a tacit acknowledgment that the order is legally unenforceable. It is a press release disguised as a presidential command.
This entire episode is a test for the American people. It forces us to ask if we still believe in the difficult principle that Justice Scalia so powerfully defended: that in a free society, we must protect the right of our opponents to express ideas we find repugnant.
The flag represents that very freedom, and the ultimate defense of the flag is the defense of the Constitution that gives it its meaning.
Personally I would support jail. Unfortunately I think the Constitution might get in the way of that. Fining them won't work due too dark money covering the fine.The most effective would be jail or maybe some sort of educational labor sentencing.