yea I feel sooo much safer knowing that your protecting me and my country, just remember that its the bill of rights, that gives you the right to that free speech to say you have no problem burning the Bill of rights, and the flag in the first place.
Maybe you should consider undoing your oath to the United States, and moving to a third world country.
I am no longer in the military -- 7 years was enough. But I consider that time to have been some of the most important time I have ever spent in my life, even if I was just a small, relatively unimportant cog in the big green machine. As for the oath -- hey, it was worth dying for if it had ever come to that so, if you can get your mind around it, I find your comments probably as offensive as you found mine.
I really don't think you understand the Bill of Rights at all. I think you understand a cartoon version of freedom, coupled with a good dose of arm chair patriotism. The freedoms we enjoy in America are rare and precious, and sometimes disagreeable. Burning a flag is disagreeable to many. Owning a firearm is disagreeable to many. Not allowing the police full, easy access to our homes to get tough on crime is disagreeable to many. But guess frickin what. Freedom isn't cheap, easy or always pleasant. It isn't orderly. But fortunately we have a Bill of Rights that keeps the arm chair patriots in our midst from making us much less free and much less of a county to be proud of.
And I believe it is the third world countries, totalitarian regimes and dictatorships where you are killed or imprisoned for having incorrect political thoughts and where you most certainly cannot burn a flag. It sounds like you would be far more at home there than I would. Maybe they could even give you a nice brown uniform to run around in looking for flag burners and others that don't show the appropriate state approved (and maybe even majority of the population approved) version of patriotism.
Charon
