Federal charges on Zimmerman? How about Fed charges on those rioters burning the American flag in Oakland, CA! It would be one thing if there was freedom of speech involved, however, to burn it simply to burn it because you are mad is another. The ideas of liberty and equality have been an irresistible force in motivating leaders like Patrick Henry, Susan B. Anthony, and Abraham Lincoln, schoolteachers like Nathan Hale and Booker T. Washington, the Philippine Scouts who fought at Bataan, and the soldiers who scaled the bluff at Omaha Beach. If those ideas are worth fighting for - and our history demonstrates that they are - it cannot be true that the flag that uniquely symbolizes their power is not itself worthy of protection from unnecessary desecration. -- Justice John Paul Stevens
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:26:55 +0000
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