SECOND RULE

WHAT ABOUT A SECOND SAW: "A SOUNDBITE SYMBOLIZES AN UNDIGESTED THOUGHT." WHO COULD BETTER EXEMPLIFY THIS THAN THE ULTRA-LIBERAL DEMOCRAT SENATOR JOHN KERRY WHEN HE PREACHED THAT, "A DESECRATED FLAG CAN BE REPLACED, BUT DESECRATED RIGHTS ARE LOST FOREVER." A CERTAIN AFFIRMATION SEEMS APPROPRIATE AFTER THIS COMPOUND SENTENCE GREETS THE EARS, BUT ACTUALLY, THERE'S NO LOGIC OR CONTENT TO IT, JUST A HIDDEN AGENDA. SENATOR KERRY WAS A SOLDIER WHO WOULD HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM BURNING A FLAG IN HIS HEYDAY DURING THE 60'S VIET NAM ERA (REMEMBER HE CLAIMED TO HAVE 'THROWN AWAY' HIS MEDALS). HE VERBALLY FLAUNTED HIS ANTI-AMERICANISM AND GOT AWAY WITH IT. BOTH HIS MILITARY OATH TO HIS COUNTRY AND HIS OBLIGATION TO ASCERTAIN FACTS BEFORE LEVELING ACCUSATIONS WERE NOT SACRED TO HIM THEN, SO IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THE FLAG WOULD PLAY SECOND FIDDLE TO THE RIGHT TO DESECRATE IT NOW. INFUSED WITH HIS WARPED WORLD VIEW, SENATOR KERRY REFUSES TO WAVE THE FLAG THAT HAS BEEN HELD SACRED TO AMERICANS SINCE ITS INCEPTION AS AN ACCEPTED SYMBOL OF PATRIOTIC DEVOTION TO COUNTRY. INSTEAD HE PLAYS TO A FALSE CONCEPT OF RIGHTS BY AN APPEALING SOUNDBITE, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.

THE LOGICAL QUESTION TO RAISE, OF COURSE, IS WHAT RIGHTS ARE DESECRATED BY FORBIDDING THE BURNING OF THE FLAG? AND HOW IS A RIGHT GONE FOREVER? THE RIGHT TO BURN A FLAG, THE RIGHT TO PROTEST A WAR AND THE RIGHT TO CRITICIZE A PRESIDENT, ALL IMPLIED IN JOHN KERRY'S REMARK, FALL UNDER THE RUBRIC OF THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. ONLY DEATH CAN END ONE'S RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, NOT THE ACT OF DESECRATION. DENYING THE RIGHT TO FLAG BURNING IS NOT DESECRATING THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH; RATHER IT IS AN ADMONITION AGAINST THE RIGHT TO DELIBERATELY DESECRATE THE FLAG.

WE ALL KNOW THE PROTESTING FLAG-BURNER IS TESTING THE BOUNDS OF TREASON UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. WE ALSO KNOW THAT ANY CONCERNED PATRIOTIC COMMONER CAN EXERCISE HIS OR HER RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH BY SHOUTING,"TRAITOR, STOP HIM." BETTER YET, MAKE A CITIZEN'S ARREST.
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