On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a show of selectively exiting the presidential race and throwing his support behind Donald Trump, hailing
the former president as a champion of free speech. Less than a week
later, Trump is already promising to crush First Amendment protections
if elected in November.

On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence
people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.
“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail
for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.
“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”

People may tell Trump that jailing anyone who burns the flag is unconstitutional because burning the flag is protected by the First
Amendment. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that
while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the
government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because
society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-restrict-first-amendment-1235088402/

Another HUGE setback for Iceberg. Trump is officially anti-1st. Not only
that but Trump proposes to make constitutional out of the
unconstitutional. That sounds a lot like burning constitutions. I always
knew Trump was one of those guys.

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The bear, the bear, and the maiden fair"
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Pelle Svanslös kirjoitti 27.8.2024 klo 19.41:

On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a show of selectively exiting the presidential race and throwing his support behind Donald Trump, hailing
the former president as a champion of free speech. Less than a week
later, Trump is already promising to crush First Amendment protections
if elected in November.

On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence
people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.
“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.
“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”

People may tell Trump that jailing anyone who burns the flag is unconstitutional because burning the flag is protected by the First Amendment. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that
while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the
government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because
society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-restrict-first-amendment-1235088402/

Another HUGE setback for Iceberg. Trump is officially anti-1st. Not only
that but Trump proposes to make constitutional out of the
unconstitutional. That sounds a lot like burning constitutions. I always
knew Trump was one of those guys.

That's not about freedom of speech, just flag burning.
Dishonouring Finnish flag is also a crime.

In Europe freedom of speech is being curbed by so-called "liberals". In
England they throw people in prison for facebook posts. For acts of
violence it takes months/years to get convicted, but committing a
thought-crime on social media gets one convicted in a week. Apparently
*that* doesn't worry you.

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