What troubles me the most about the issue is that our country has decomposed to the point that some people would desire to
show disgrace towards and inflame the very people and foundation that gave them their freedom.
Our constitution and the first ten amendments recognize our right, as a nation, to be a bunch of ass%@$@. Every law before was predicated on the assumption that you were not allowed to do stuff that upset other people, but our founding fathers recognized how much that emasculated the human spirit and put it down on paper that we, as humans, have the right to be jerks... and that sometimes that's what being human is all about.
In another society, we couldn't even have this discussion because asserting that some jerks should be legally protected when they act like idiots and burn a flag is a conversation that offends some of you to your very core. But the constitution doesn't give you the right to not be offended, no. 230 years of history establishes that the constitution and the bill of rights will always side with the ass%*(@% who chooses to assert his own rights over the comfort of others.
This is all laid our in the 10 amendments to the constitution:
1. I have the right to say stuff you're gonna hate to hear. Also, I can choose to worship a different god than you and you can't stop me.
2. I can buy tons of great guns, and if you feel scared about it... tough.
3. I don't care if there's a war,
I choose whether or not soldiers live in my house.
4. Buddy, you've gotta wake up REAL early in the morning if you want to look at
my stuff, and you'd better be right if you think I did something wrong or there's going to be hell to pay.
5. Sure, it'd be polite of me to just say 'I did it', but if you jerks are going to try and pin something on me, I ain't helping, and I don't care how inconvenient it is.
6. I want to see the face of the jerkwad who said I did him wrong. None of this 'hiding behind the skirts of mother' stuff, let's see it. And let's see it now.
7. You're sure I broke the law? You'd better be 'inconvenience 12 random peers' sure, because that's what it's gonna take.
8. Don't use your wallet to hold me down, fight like a man.
9. There are other things I can do, and this document isn't gonna nail down every aspect of who I am. Deal with it.
10. I don't care how big your wig is or how many horses you own, the mere fact that you're in the government doesn't mean you're the boss.
I'm the boss, and
you're my employee. So get me some coffee.
And THAT is what makes our country great. We're not a bunch of polite dandies who can get their puffery in a huff and have someone arrested for giving them the vapors with a 'brutish display', we're a bunch of jerks flipping each other the finger, and THAT'S the way we LIKE IT.
