http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/06/14/some-flag-day-thoughts-on-flag-burning/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/06/14/some-flag-day-thoughts-on-flag-burning/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 Gene Callahan Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:27:32 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1243#comment-1079 Julian, why is it "hateful" to claim "America's" commitment to its purported principles is hollow? At least in terms of the American <em>government</em>, I'd say it <em>is</em> pretty hollow. When McKinley killed 250,000 Filipinos to "Christianize" the country -- which had been Catholic for 300 years -- wasn't that a little less than a stellar commitment to American principles? (And, of course, I could keep offering examples like this for a <em>long</em> time. Julian, why is it “hateful” to claim “America’s” commitment to its purported principles is hollow? At least in terms of the American government, I’d say it is pretty hollow. When McKinley killed 250,000 Filipinos to “Christianize” the country — which had been Catholic for 300 years — wasn’t that a little less than a stellar commitment to American principles? (And, of course, I could keep offering examples like this for a long time.

]]> http://www.juliansanchez.com/2006/06/14/some-flag-day-thoughts-on-flag-burning/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 theCoach Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:45:10 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1243#comment-1078 Great perpective that I had not thought of. Yglesias almost has me convinced that it is of little use to defend flag burning on pratctical grounds -- or at least to give a lot of leeway to politicians who feel the need to pander on a hot button, but mostly impactless question. However, there is probably no other issue that produces such a visceral reaction in me to its sheer stupidity and profound lack of principle, so I am glad to see the libertarians stepping up to the plate with additional reasons to dislike supporters of such an ammendment. For the record, I am embarassed that such a trivial thing irks me so, and obviously there are other positions not widely held which I despise much more. Great perpective that I had not thought of. Yglesias almost has me convinced that it is of little use to defend flag burning on pratctical grounds — or at least to give a lot of leeway to politicians who feel the need to pander on a hot button, but mostly impactless question. However, there is probably no other issue that produces such a visceral reaction in me to its sheer stupidity and profound lack of principle, so I am glad to see the libertarians stepping up to the plate with additional reasons to dislike supporters of such an ammendment.
For the record, I am embarassed that such a trivial thing irks me so, and obviously there are other positions not widely held which I despise much more.

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