Re: OT: More Govt BS
>Thousands dead in Iraq,
Allow me to put some perspective to your statement: in the past 2 years, we've lost about 1700 service men and women in Iraq, including about 400 who have died in non-hostile actions, such as vehicle accidents and natural causes. On D-Day alone, the death toll due to hostile action was estimated at 2500-5000. See
6/6/04 KGO article (
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/060604_nw_d_day.html) for reference. That means that we took 1500-3000 times more casualties in the D-Day invasion than we have in Iraq. (1300 casualties vs. 2500-5000 casualties, and 730 days vs. 1 day.)
> and economy in a state of chronic malaise.
Sounds like a local problem to me. The economy is booming in many parts of the country.
> Let's save the flag! Last I heard Republicans were
> trying to have hate-speech/crimes laws changed/removed and
> protecting the rights of all Americans to Burn their own
> crosses. Such belies the real motivation of some of our
> Republican friends I am afraid. Burn a cross, not a flag-
> nice jingle, huh?
Last you heard, those little voices were talking to you again. Talk about BS!
>
> From a religious perspective does it not give conservative
> christians pause that a secular icon like the flag should
> receive such protections? I wonder what the good old
> testament has to say about that...
>
It says, "You shall not bear false witness against your neigbor." (Exodus 20:16, NKJV), or "Do not lie." You come up short on that one.
Funny how you bring up conservative Christians, which is completely irrelevant to the topic of flag burning. I doubt that most conservative Christians care deeply one way or another about flag burning. They're too busy with other things, just like everybody else.
Given your commentary on Republicans which is at best uninformed, and at worst inflammatory, I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear that many conservatives, including myself, are opposed to a flag-burning amendment. It's a waste of time and money and a knee-jerk reaction to an action that, while being incredibly offensive, is also incredibly rare.
I'd prefer that they spend their time putting through an amendment protecting private property rights from government entities that want to confiscate it for private development. The conservative Supreme Court justices sided with the landowners; the liberal ones sided with government.