PERFECT response to Trump's "flag burners should go to jail"

[dixiegrrrrl]

Former NFL wide receiver and current feature film director Matthew A. Cherry just responded to President-elect Trump’s early morning tweet,
in which Trump suggested that burning the United States flag should be punishable by jail time or loss of citizenship:

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016



Cherry linked these issues with a tweet that has since started to go viral:

So in Trumps America if you burn a flag you should be jailed but if you burn a cross you should be in his administration. Got it.

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) November 29, 2016

http://usuncut.com/news/trump-wants-punish-flag-burners-former-nfl-players-response-savage/

[Maru Kitteh]

1. PERFECT!

[Solly Mack]

2. Ha!

[ROFF]

3. What would happen if

someone held a stars and bars flag burning party?

[cpamomfromtexas]

4. They will be rounding up Boy Scouts

Disposal of tattered flags is by burning. The Boy Scouts do ceremonies very frequently.

[sheshe2]

5. Thank you Matthew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep it up.

Bravo

Fuck tRump.

[3catwoman3]

6. Spot.

On.

[keithbvadu2]

7. The flag they burn

?1434891904

[keithbvadu2]

8. The flag they respect

?1434818045

[Feeling the Bern]

9. Boom goes the dynamite.

Love it!

[Sunny05]

10. K&R. nt

[Separation]

11. If, somehow this ever becomes a law.

Ill be the first to burn one in front of the White House.

[lastlib]

33. I would be there beside you!

[Tikki]

12. Or if you burn a russian flag.

Tikki

[Doc_Technical]

13. Every 5 or six years, the other side brings up this nonsense

There aren't any large outbreaks of flag burnings going on but
the puppet masters know what will piss off their base.
Here is a charming ditty (circa 1990) about taking personal responsibility for your
actions:

http://kfyo.com/in-honor-of-flag-day-dont-burn-that-flag-dont-make-me-kick-your-butt-audio/

[classykaren]

20. Yes remember when senior Bush wanted to arrest people not saluting the flag?

[brer cat]

14. Boom.

Thanks for sharing, dixiegrrrl.

[Demsrule86]

15. What a great response. nt

[uponit7771]

16. 1

[pipi_k]

17. I've always wondered

what happens to those little American flags that are placed on the graves of Veterans on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The ones that aren't stolen, I mean.

And what about those same little flags that get sold/passed around at rallies and parades.

If NOBODY can burn an American flag, then an awful lot of people would be in big trouble, because I doubt those tiny little flags are reused after being in the weather or dropped on the ground after parades are over. They're probably being burnt.

BAAAAAADDDD!!! Lock those flag burners up!

Of course, they could always just be thrown in the trash instead, right? Way more dignified...

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. When my generation was protesting the Viet Nam war

it was seriously illegal to burn flags, and to wear any part of the flag.
Says so right in the rules about the flag

Today wearing a flag pattern is considered normal.

The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the national flag of the United States of America.
It is Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code (4 U.S.C. § 1 et seq).
This is a U.S. federal law, but the penalty described in Title 18 of the United States Code (18 U.S.C. § 700) for failure to comply with it is not enforced.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Eichman that prohibiting burning of the U.S. flag conflicts with
the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and is therefore unconstitutional

Full list of flag rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. Must retweet!

Thanks for the heads up.

[greymattermom]

21. What I don't like

is to see flags out in the rain. Many folks act like they are patriotic but the flag is out there at night and in the rain.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. I hear ya.

What I really don't like is laws that are not uniformly enforced...no pun intended.
Either enforce then or get rid of them.

[Sophiegirl]

22. Oh...

Fuck!

Note that I rarely, if ever, curse in my posts.

But damn, that was a perfect response.

[47of74]

23. Yeah, pretty much.

I thought gee for a man-baby orange fuckstick who is all worried about flag burning I bet he doesn't give a shit about cross burning.

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. He has pretty much told us he does not give a shit about cross burning when he hired Bannon.

and several other racist choices.

[Bob Loblaw]

25. Your flag decal

won't get you in to Heaven anymore.

- John Prine

[treestar]

26. Indeed !

Spot on!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. What Molly Ivins said.

“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”

[volstork]

28. Oh,

SNAP!

[LandrosT]

29. My response is: read the Constitution, Drumpf!

Not that he'll ever get to reading it, since he's probably never read a full book in his entire life. Sad!

[BumRushDaShow]

31. That's like a John Fugelsang or KO-type response

[Plucketeer]

32. Herr Trumph!

TORCHER TORTURE is not permitted - yet.

[Initech]

34. Win!!!!!