Just had a FB post removed twice.

[maveric]

A simple question I asked: If by some reason you had to burn either the flag or the Constitution, which would you choose?

Too controversial?
I know. It's red meat but I want to hear from these folks who are outraged by NFL players taking a knee.

[jodymarie aimee]

1. Take it from an old Berkeley hippie

people are kind of babies these days.....Bill Maher used to be on regular TV......on and on.....I posted my letter to the editor on Scott Walker's FB page RE: voter fraud.........a couple years back...and one of Walker's thugs got me banned from all of Facebook for a month. Go figure......

[PJMcK]

2. I can't imagine that choice

One burns a flag to retire it when it has become frayed or torn. In fact, when I was a Scout leader, we would retrieve the grommets from the ashes and bury them.

Your question, though, reminds me of Penn & Teller's magic act on "The West Wing." It reflects your question:

[Hortensis]

8. Hm? To me the flag's just a piece of cloth, a graven image not to be worshiped.

It's not just a little ridiculous and clueless to be worshipping cloth, either. To me burning a reprint of the constitution would be the same. The choice? Both rather offensive, but someone flip a coin for me. I don't worship paper, cloth, or stone things.

It's all about the principles and structure defined in our constitution. Those are damned sacred to me, and to make burning either as a form of speech illegal would be a burning of our principle of free speech.

[Weekend Warrior]

3. I don't see the issue with the question.

Personally, I respect both yet would have no problem burning either. Neither are infallible in symbolism or construct.

[Orrex]

4. Trump has been shitting on the Constitution and wiping his ass with the flag for a long time

Your question seems fine to me.

[Iggo]

5. Either/or, don't matter. I don't worship paper or cloth.

[safeinOhio]

6. Protect the symbol and not the thing.

Destroy the air, water and forest, no problem. Mess with the flag or anthem, they have a problem.

[brush]

7. Burn the flag, save the Constitution on which the country stands.

With one amendments added (get rid of the EC)

[ksoze]

9. Removed by Who? Did you post to someone else's wall?

[maveric]

10. FB

[sarah FAILIN]

11. FB is aggressively punishing dems

The most I've been banned for was 3 days so far, but it builds up so I expect more. My "crime" was telling someone I should have reported him for some harassing speech he had said earlier and that I still had screenshots of what he had said

[tritsofme]

12. You are surely posting on someone else's page.

Who has the ability to delete things off of it. Facebook isn't censoring what you post to your own feed.

[Ms. Toad]

15. If it is alerted on, they can remove it. n/t

[fescuerescue]

13. Sounds like a rough draft of National Treasure #3

Nicholas cage has once again broken into the national archives. The power is out and he's freezing to death with his sexy girlfriend.

Only three items i the basement to save them certain death, a book of matches, the flag and constitution......

[Ms. Toad]

14. That is interesting.

I've alerted on a few right wing images that were pretty graphic and/or had text promoting violence. I've always gotten back the "thank you for your concern, feel free to block this user's content from your timeline if it offends you," response.

(Although I noticed that two of the posts I alerted on have actually vanished - after they told me to stop being such a baby about them.)