Freedom to Display the American Flag

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:39 pm

This is what our people are busy writing into law. Bush signed it today. Phew! Oh, I almost forgot...it's an election year!

Post by **Lunkhead** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:45 pm

That link didn't work for me. Is that a different bill from the one that the House passed that would prevent federal courts from being able to rule on the consitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance? Now that's some time well spent, since there just isn't anything more critical going on in the world, frankly.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:30 pm

No, [updated link above] it is...An Act to ensure that the right of an individual to display the flag of the United States on residential property not be abridged.

Was this a big problem? Where does this come from?

Plat · Post by **Plat** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:51 pm

And where are the clever riders?

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:21 pm

What the hell? Do we need to convince our lawmakers to work on bills that are important, or are we better off letting them waste their time with this crap so they don't pass any more bills coddling the stinking ri... er.. i'll stop there
-bill

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:28 am

Mmm.... Freedom fries....

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:53 am

You guys don't know how good you have it. The cops came around today and threatened to throw me in jail if I didn't take my American flag down!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:44 pm

Denyer wrote:You guys don't know how good you have it. The cops came around today and threatened to throw me in jail if I didn't take my American flag down!

Yeah - I tipped them off and called the number on my "Stop Terrorism" fridge magnet