100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Scaeagles, would you have contributed to his defense fund if it was the American flag he burned? Just curious.

It's a good question. The circumstances are such that I would say no.

As I stated earlier, when a country is conquered, the flag of the country that has done the conquering is hoisted in place of the conquered country. If the roles were reversed and and the hispanic student has burned the US flag, I would not support a charge of felony arson, but I would not contribute to the cause if such a charge was levied. I would figure the ACLU would have all the funding they needed to defend the kid. It is an issue of patriotism to me, clear and simple, and what I think is right. I can relate to the kid who burned the Mexican flag, so therefore I contributed (not a large amount, mind you. I did it primarily so the kid would see one more supporter of his cause).

I would suspect that should it have been a US flag that was burned, it would not have been politically correct to charge any crime. It would have been solely a free speech issue, though suspension may be warranted (as the kid who burned the Mexican flag rightfully received for a variety of reasons).