(May 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I agree.
When I was active duty Air Force, I clashed with nearly all my fellow airmen over the attempts to ban flag-burning. I've always considered freedom of speech to be our most important right. Indeed, I feel it is what truly sets the USA apart more than any other thing. To me, shielding a piece of cloth from free speech would do terrible harm to what the piece of cloth represents.
If an idea cannot survive criticism, it doesn't deserve to survive.
If America ever banned flag burning that would be the day I start doing it because like you said, it would no longer represent free speech. Unpopular and offensive speech is not protected because you like it. It is protected because you don't want government getting to a future where they might not like what you have to say and could have the power to silence you.
As long as it is your own property and it isn't causing a safety hazard then all you can say about it is that you find it offensive.
