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They are the ones who are shouting the loudest for others to die in
foreign lands, they are the ones waving the flag the most vigorously
while undermining all that it is supposed to stand for. These are the
Armchair Patriots, and they are legion. The insistence of the most
vile of all, the Republican party, a group that has come to symbolize
the darkest of all American traits to 'wave the bloody flag' and tar
all others as disloyal and tresonous[sic] is a low point in our
nation's history. This made it especially nice to see the party's
failure to mount a successful effort to implement a constitutional
ban on flag burning. "Old Glory" lost today" moaned Senate Republican
Leader Bill Frist, his latest crusade to amend our governing document
to include language denying rights to Americans beaten back by only
one vote.
Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii gets it, a World War II veteran who
lost an arm in service to his country said in regards to the
Republican push for the amendment:
"Our country's unique because our dissidents have a voice....While I
take offense at disrespect to the flag...I nonetheless believe it is
my continued duty as a veteran, as an American citizen and as a
United States senator to defend the constitutional right of
protesters to use the flag in nonviolent speech."
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