In a shocking turn of events, President Trump signed an unconstitutional executive order making burning the American flag a crime. He said it incites rioting and as per Brandenburg v. Ohio that expression that leads to "imminent lawless action* is not protected. Thing is, the Supreme Court specifically looked at that in Texas v. Johnson and said that flag burning does not meet that standard and therefore burning or desecrating the flag was protect.
I, for one as I’m sure all of you are, am appalled that the advisors would fail Our President in something so basic. I look forward to President Mr. Trump firing those that gave him this horrible advice and that he soon corrects it for rights, freedom, apple pie and bald eagles.
Trump will only eat “deep fried apple pie” from McDonalds and he hasn’t had a good relationship with white-cowled raptors since this happened to him:
As for flag burning, Trump could care less and would even join in if it would would make a good meme to sell more $TRUMP coin, but it’s a good excuse to send HNS, the National Guard, the Marines and maybe a few Park Police in to tear gas and beat demonstrators as a show of how much he’s trying to do to forestall violence in our nation’s cities.
All this means is Trump will throw people in jail for flag burning, own the libs and incite his base while the case works its slow way through the courts. That will end up at the US Supreme Court (probably). They have been exceptionally generous to Trump. Do you have faith the SCOTUS would uphold the First Amendment here?
Even if they did, the people challenging this will likely be in jail the whole time.
If you were (both) Penn & Teller, could you feel safe in this moment?
The possibility of ending up in either Schrödinger’s SuperMax facility or … Uganda … exists!
[No. In the US we do not criminalize activity retroactively, and then prosecute its retroactive offenders. Well, we didn’t in The Before Times, anyway]
