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Lionessa

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2. Please separate flag burning from "acts of violence" or your OP is crap.

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Original post)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 09:02 AM

Feb 2012

The two are NOT the same and shouldn't be equated.

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About that flag burning business & acts of violence by Occupiers-- [View all] Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 OP

Or, in the words of Brother Lennon Robb Feb 2012 #1

He was torn, he says "in" in one version and you can hear it "in response" on the album. morningfog Feb 2012 #8

Personally, I don't take my political strategy advice from dead Beatles. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #10

Please separate flag burning from "acts of violence" or your OP is crap. Lionessa Feb 2012 #2

excellent point. if anything, "acts of violence" are unilateral - inna Feb 2012 #5

I think it is important to keep perspective. Violence against people is unacceptable. rhett o rick Feb 2012 #6

I'll even go with violence as a whole isn't useful, but burning a flag isn't Lionessa Feb 2012 #7

"minor property damage" is vandalism and is illegal... SidDithers Feb 2012 #15

Why do you think it important to distort what I say? Where do I "advocate" smashing a shop's rhett o rick Feb 2012 #16

They are not the same. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #9

Repeating misinformation like "equated in the popular mind" as though you have a Lionessa Feb 2012 #11

About half to 2/3 of the public would go for a Constitutional amendment prohibiting flag burning. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #17

Read all of the wiki, amendments haven't passed though have been tried, Lionessa Feb 2012 #19

I think some people burn the flag because they see it as a mockery of the freedoms rhett o rick Feb 2012 #12

But I guess we'll never know what was in the minds of the people who burned the flag in Oakland. randome Feb 2012 #14

And when they do it, others get a different point. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #18

Acts of violence provide justification for opposition as we have seen from DU members. nm rhett o rick Feb 2012 #3

In before agent provocateur...nt SidDithers Feb 2012 #4

vaht? vas you shayin shumthin... vaht? dionysus Feb 2012 #13

In regards to flag burning, I imagine it comes down to whether LanternWaste Feb 2012 #20

I think winning is important for the Occupy movement. Jackpine Radical Feb 2012 #21

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