[Strikeout King]

If there’s anything I love more than the University of Kentucky, it is the United States of America. That’s why it is my duty as a proud American to tell you about LSU’s Benedict Arnold ways. Last week, LSU gave a student permission to burn an American flag on campus. Grad student Benjamin Haas was given a peaceful protest permit from the university, allowing him to set fire to that beautiful piece of fabric that Betsy Ross worked so hard on. Luckily, over a thousand students showed up to the protest armed and ready to go all Andrew Jackson on his ass. The crowd threw bottles and chanted “U-S-A!” as Haas was escorted away from the scene by horse-mounted police. He never even got the chance to burn Old Glory.


Haas was holding the protest to exercise his First Amendment rights. LSU’s student body president, Cory Wells, said, “We’re going to respect his First Amendment right to burn our American flag.”


I think LSU’s entire student body should’ve exercised their Thirty-Seventh Amendment right, the right to burn traitors alive on campus.


If George Washington was still alive today, he’d sail down the Mississippi in an ‘Austin 3:16′ t-shirt with Lee Greenwood blasting in the iPod, and he’d rip off Benjamin Haas’ arms and slap Cory Wells with them. That’s exactly what the Father of this great country would do.


Check yourself, LSU administration. Before you wriggity-wreck yourself.
God Bless America.










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[LWC]

If he has the right to burn the flag, they have the right to protest the burning of it. Everybody won.

[Spud6]

Their is really nothing LSU could've done? He has his rights.

[Strikeout King]

Their is really nothing LSU could've done? He has his rights.

they could have made him do it somewhere else besides on campus

[Spud6]

they could have made him do it somewhere else besides on campus

Can they tell him he can't do it there?

[Strikeout King]

Can they tell him he can't do it there?

they should be able to. he could have went off the property of the campus to do it

[vundy33]

I thought burning the flag without it needing to be burned was illegal? I know that when they're tattered and torn and need to be thrown away, it's customary to burn it and then bury it, but I thought it was literally against the law to just burn the flag for the hell of it.

Oh well, that guy is stupid. I don't even let myself get mad at this crap anymore.

[Spud6]

^It's what our countries turning into! If George Washington and them were still alive they'd ring our governments necks!!

[LeeCoUKFan]

WOW! This is just rediculous! This student should have known that trying to do something like this, especially on campus, would bring possible bodily harm!

[Amun-Ra]

He done it for attention.

LSU admin. and Student Goverment should have told him yes you can do this but not on our property. He has his rights but so did they. LSU handled this wrong and it is making them look bad.
I am glad that there were those who stood and protested him.

[Aslan]

I thought burning the flag without it needing to be burned was illegal? I know that when they're tattered and torn and need to be thrown away, it's customary to burn it and then bury it, but I thought it was literally against the law to just burn the flag for the hell of it.

Oh well, that guy is stupid. I don't even let myself get mad at this crap anymore.

That's what I thought too.
Whatever the case, the kid is a joke.

[BoyleCounty]

He done it for attention.

LSU admin. and Student Goverment should have told him yes you can do this but not on our property. He has his rights but so did they. LSU handled this wrong and it is making them look bad.
I am glad that there were those who stood and protested him.

I agree with you Amun. LSU could have said, "yes, you can, but not on this campus". Reason being, it could have(and it did), cost a conflict of interest. This kid could have been killed over something he shouldn't have been exercising anyways. Sure he has the right, but why do this? He is lucky he got escorted away.

[Bolt]

Hes just a little attention wanting jackass.
Its really that simple.
Peopel should be careful doing this type of thing. With all of the bad in the world people are more likely to go haywire on someone nowadays.

[Navajo4life]

This guy is lucky that a couple of good ole boys from Swamp People did not come and get him and feed him to "Mike the Tiger" that would be more interesting than watching some Jack-off burn our flag...

[Ballers]

What an idiot.. Very lucky that he's still alive I'd say.

[zaga_fan]

Burning flags in protest has been a legal form of protest for a long time.
I think it might even be mentioned in the constitution....don't quote me on that.

However, burning a flag simply to exercise your first ammendment rights is simply ridiculous. How about you exercise your right to shut your mouth and go to class. I would bet anything the tax dollars of the working citizens of the country that flag flies for had a lot to do with him being where he is.

[Stardust]

^ Judicial and legislative history

The first federal Flag Protection Act was passed by Congress in 1968 in response to protest burnings of the flag at demonstrations against the Vietnam War.[9] Over time, 48 of the 50 U.S. states also enacted similar flag protection laws. All of these statutes were overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States by a 5-4 vote in the case Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) as unconstitutional restrictions of public expression. Congress responded to the Johnson decision by passing a Flag Protection Act, only to see the Supreme Court reaffirm Johnson by the same 5-4 majority in United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990), declaring that flag burning was constitutionally-protected free speech.

In both cases, William J. Brennan wrote the majority opinion, joined by Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy (Kennedy also authored a separate concurrence in Johnson), and the dissenters in both cases were then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist (who authored a dissent in Johnson), and Justices John Paul Stevens (who authored dissents in both cases), Byron White and Sandra Day O'Connor.

The decisions were very controversial and have prompted Congress to consider the only remaining legal avenue to enact flag protection statutes — a constitutional amendment. Each Congress since the Johnson decision has considered creating a flag desecration amendment. From 1995 to 2005, beginning with the 104th Congress, the proposed amendment was approved biennially by the two-thirds majority necessary in the U.S. House of Representatives, but it consistently failed to achieve the same constitutionally-required super-majority vote in the U.S. Senate (during some sessions, the proposed amendment did not even come to a vote in the Senate before the expiration of the Congress' term). The last time it was considered, in the 109th Congress, the Amendment failed by one vote in the Senate.

[LWC]

Why would it fail in Congress? I do not understand who would vote against it? Maybe it was one of those bills that was stuffed with pork. I hate when Congressmen do that.

[ekff]

If I was a student there, I wouldn't have let him burned it, THEN me and 10 of my American buddies would have beat the hell out of him.

[LWC]

I don't know of a single jury that would convict ekff of assault for beating him once they found out he was protecting the honor of the flag. They love to put veterans on jury pools anyway

[Aslan]

Where's Hoot at for this discussion?

[zaga_fan]

Why would it fail in Congress? I do not understand who would vote against it? Maybe it was one of those bills that was stuffed with pork. I hate when Congressmen do that.

Flag burning has been a means of protest for a long time now.
I guess people just don't want to let it go....

[Amun-Ra]

Flag burning has been a means of protest for a long time now.
I guess people just don't want to let it go....

You can protest without burning the symbol of this country that hundreds of thousands of men and women have died protecting.
If you don't like the goverment fine, but burning the flag is pissing on the memory of those who picked up a gun and died for your very freedom to burn the flag.