http://coloradopower.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/flag-burning/ Knowledge Brings Power Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://coloradopower.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/flag-burning/#comment-54 FLAG BURNING | Politics in America Mon, 19 May 2008 10:24:54 +0000 http://coloradopower.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-54 [...] su wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptST PETERSBURG TIMES EDITORIAL, 2005 - Sen. Hillary Clinton’s decision to co-sponsor a bill to make it a crime to burn the American flag amounts to political pandering of the worst kind. She was against outlawing flag-burning before she was for it. The New York Democrat says she opposes a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning but has signed on to a bill that would ostensibly accomplish the same thing by federal statute. Her position is unprincipled. Clinton may think this is a middle-ground position with broad political appeal, but most people will see it for what it is. . . The measure she has co-sponsored along with Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, is the Flag Protection Act of 2005. One provision would make it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine, to burn an American flag of “any size” if a person knows that it is [...] [...] [...] su wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptST PETERSBURG TIMES EDITORIAL, 2005 – Sen. Hillary Clinton’s decision to co-sponsor a bill to make it a crime to burn the American flag amounts to political pandering of the worst kind. She was against outlawing flag-burning before she was for it. The New York Democrat says she opposes a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning but has signed on to a bill that would ostensibly accomplish the same thing by federal statute. Her position is unprincipled. Clinton may think this is a middle-ground position with broad political appeal, but most people will see it for what it is. . . The measure she has co-sponsored along with Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, is the Flag Protection Act of 2005. One provision would make it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine, to burn an American flag of “any size” if a person knows that it is [...] [...]

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