Preventing someone from insulting everyone around him or her is not promoting aggressive, extreme or belligerent nationalism. I personally don't support a law banning flag burning. But to call it Fascism makes no sense.
Why did you leave out this part of the American Heritage definition? suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship On 10/19/06, Rick Root wrote: > Sam wrote: > > Banning open fires in public is not fascist. > > No but banning a form of free speech simply because it's the flag of > your nation *IS*. > > Here are some definitions of fascism: > > "A social and political ideology with the primary guiding principle that > the state or nation is the highest priority, rather than personal or > individual freedoms." > > "promoting an aggressive nationalism" > > "promotes extreme nationalism" > > My personal favorite, from the American Heritage Dictionary: > > "A philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social > and economic control, a strong, centralized government usually headed by > a dictator, and often a policy of belligerent nationalism." > > wow, thank goodness we don't have a dictator. > > Rick > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:217905 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
