This should have been done DECADES ago…
President Donald Trump got on Twitter, his favorite platform, and said he is “all in” on banning the burning of the American flag.
“All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag. A no brainer!” he said.
All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag. A no brainer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2019
The Amendment was introduced by Montana Sen. Steve Daines and was co-sponsored by North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer, The Daily Mail reported.
‘Our United States flag is a timeless symbol of liberty that tells the story of America, the story of our enduring pursuit of freedom,’ Daines said.
‘Remembering the sacrifices of all who carried its colors into battle, our nation should always render the flag the honor and dignity it is due.’
This is the third time in the last three years that Daines has introduced proposed legislation seeking to give Congress the authority to ban the burning of the Stars and Stripes.
But the Supreme Court has already ruled that the burning of the flag is protected under the First Amendment.
Forty-eight states passed laws against flag burning, but those laws were ruled unconstitutional in 1989 following the Supreme Court decision in the Texas v. Johnson case.
‘Johnson’ refers to Gregory Johnson, who was arrested by authorities in Texas after he burned the flag outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas in 1984.
Earlier this week, the city of Cleveland agreed to pay the 63-year-old Johnson $225,000 after he was arrested for burning the American flag outside the Republican Convention in Cleveland in 2016, according to The New York Times.
Src: The Federalist Papers
GREAT!!
RUN THIS THROUGH THE SUPREME COURT NOW–ESPECIALLY SINCE IT IS AN ELECTION YEAR–Let the anti-America Flag Burners stand out. Mr. President make this an issue against the liberal demoncrats who do not respect America, those that served and gave their lives, and those of us who are still proud to be called Americans.
AMEN
I agree, lets see who holds the colors true to their heart and who if a FAKE.
That should expose the true patriots and flagrant traitors in Congress!
I believe it is alright to burn the American flag only if it is wound tightly around your body.
i served two tours in Vietnam if anyone burns a flag in front of me i’m sorry i will have to kill them on the spot
Get this before the Supreme Court now and they will reverse the previous decision..We who served our country, and those who are still proud to be called Americans would appreciate this. We are tired of the disrespect by the liberal minded that they can trash a symbol of our Nation.
I agree with you 100%. I served 20 years active USN service depending our beloved country (during the Vietnam era and beyond) and I hated those SOB who burned and disrespect our flag.
Semper Fi.
Yes if you don’t respect our FLAG you are not an AMERICAN THAT IS HOW I SEE IT .We have loved ones to DIE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE FREE TODAY.IF YOU HATE AMERUCA THAT MUCH GET YOUR ASS OUT OF AMERICA.
So you fuckesr blocked me again
Desert Fox, it probably has to do with your gutter mouth!
mine wasn’t being said with swearing and they didn’t put mine on
Reagan, Should have leveled the Allotolla’s Palace Decades ago, when Jimmy Carter could not get the job done, by freeing the American’s being kidnapped by Students!! The USA has been playing dumb ass to Iran by allowing Russia to build them a Nuclear Power Plant, along with a Enrichment Facility to produce Weapons Grade Uranium from spent Uranium Rods, but Jimmy Carter Outlawed Enrichment Facility’s in the USA decades ago? Iran has kicked Inspectors out on many Occasions and got away with it, but when President Obama came on Board he bent over backwards to allow Iran have their way, with help of his treasonous buddy “John Kerry” they adopted a treaty with Iran which allowed the Nuclear Enrichment of spent Uranium Fuel Rods and start a Nuclear Weapons program. Not only did Obama allow his Islamic Buddies do that but Obama in the dark of the night fly in Billions of US and Foreign Currency on Packaged Pallets but took about all the sanctions away.
President, Barack Obama’s administration reportedly misled Congress — and the American people — about a crucial element of the Iran nuclear deal.
A GOP-led investigation by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed on Wednesday that Obama’s Treasury Department secretly worked on a license to allow Iran access to the American financial system.
A license, according to the Treasury Department, is “an authorization from [Treasury] to engage in a transaction that otherwise would be prohibited.”
It’s a big claim. Recall that the Iran deal had the US lift certain sanctions on Tehran in exchange for Iranians curbing their nuclear program. But the US didn’t remove every penalty after signing the agreement in 2015 — meaning that Iran’s access to the US financial system was still limited.
But according to the new report, the US Treasury Department issued a license to Oman’s Bank of Muscat on February 24, 2016. That license would have let Iran change $5.7 billion worth of Omani rials it held at the bank into euros — after first changing them into US dollars.
Iran could not change money into dollars without the license, since this would have violated sanctions that were still in place.
However, two US banks refused to help with the conversion of Iranian-owned Omani rials into dollars — even after Obama officials approached them — reportedly citing a severe hit to their reputations. After all, they knew they would be perceived as circumventing the Iran nuclear deal and aiding Tehran.
The Associated Press was the first to report on the Senate subcommittee’s findings.
Sean Kane, a former sanctions official in Obama’s Treasury Department and now a lawyer at Dechert LLP, told me that Treasury “is not and was not in the practice of allowing Iran even indirect access to the US financial system.”
He continued, “What is being reported appears to be a limited authorization that would have allowed a one-time conversion of specific Iranian reserves held abroad, not something that allowed them to continue accessing the US financial system on a going-forward basis.” Kane also noted that Treasury can issue licenses based on America’s changing foreign policy needs.
That’s not how some critics see it. “The Obama effort to boost Iran’s economy not only ran counter to American interests, it skirted the law,” Jonathan Schanzer, an Iran expert at the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies think tank, tweeted on Wednesday.
Did the Obama administration lie about helping Iran?
What makes this revelation worse, Republican lawmakers say, is that the Obama administration may have at best misled — and at worst, deliberately lied — about granting Iran limited access to the US financial system.
“The Obama administration misled the American people and Congress because they were desperate to get a deal with Iran,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), the subcommittee’s chair, said in a statement.
Here’s why Portman and others make that claim: In Wednesday’s report, they note statements from top Obama officials saying that this type of action wasn’t a possibility. Iran “will continue to be denied access to the [US’s] financial and commercial market,” then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in July 2015.
And Adam Szubin, a top Treasury official under Obama, said this to the Senate Banking Committee later that month: “Iranian banks will not be able to clear US dollars through New York, hold correspondent account relationships with US financial institutions, or enter into financing arrangements with US banks.”
It’s still unclear if there was a coordinated effort to keep this specific license hidden from Congress and the American people. But clearly, the Obama administration covertly did more to help Iran than previously known.
it is a shame that the people of the United States would stoop so low to burn the symbol of our great Nation these people are unAmerican and they do not deserve to live here in America. They do not give a damn about the many Americans that gave their life for that flag and our freedom these people are a disgrace and do not belong here in America
I agree, deport them.
Penalty for burning our Flag should be 90 days in jail and a 10K Fine; none of which can be reduced, suspended or dismissed.
Walking and or Jumping on our Flag should be 90 days in jail and a 10K Fine, none of which can be reduced, suspended or dismissed.
As a Marine Corps Veteran, I approve this message.
Semper Fi
I agree with you Guns.
Free Speech, okay, you can talk about the Flag all you want. Setting a fire, is a crime is it not? So, if a law is passed that gives protection to the flag say for setting fires in certain protected places i.e. at a political location, in DC and where ever stated. I see no problem with a law that includes the flag to be protected..
Free speech to burn the National Symbol?
MMMMMM, then how about a law to require a $10,000 permit to do so?
To burn or mishandle the symbol of our country should be punishable by a six month prison sentence and six months clean up duty in a veterans hospital. Maybe citizenship classes could be included.
Thank you for standing for “Ole Glory”! And Thank you MUCH for the Jail Time for those who desecrate this timeless symbol of Freedom and for those who sacrificed their very lives to preserve OUR Freedom. TRUMP (and his allies) 2020.
Those who burn the great flag of our nation
should be jailed, but in my opinion
those who burn the flag of our nation, should be
Cast out of America, and to never return.
God bless America and our flag .Jail all American flag burners. And deport illegals that burn our flag. And God bless our veterans and please remove Nancy pelosi
Sounds to me like it is past time to burn johnson. TRUMP-PENCE 2020 !!!!
Sounds like a ORDINARY as s CLOWN ! Any INSANE LOWLIFE THAT WOULD BURN THE FLAG OF THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY needs to LOSE their Citizenship CITIZENSHIP and IMPRISONED for LIFE..
I highly advise anyone to not burn the flat, stomp it of desecrate my flag before me, I am 88 a vet of the Korean war and can still throw a fist in some ones mouth and I will.
Worldwide – anyone who dares to set an American Flag on fire should catch on fire too and burn to death!
Anywhere on this globe – anyone who sets the American Flag on fire should catch on fire too and burn to death.
It’s ok to burn the flag if you have it wrapped around you.
I agree w/ Montana Sen. Steve Daines & North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer NO Burning of the Flag make it a Law.
It is the Official Flag of our Nation. The Congress should have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. The first US flag was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.
The Stripes represent the original 13 Colonies & the Stars represent the 50 States of the Union. The colors of the Flag R symbolic as Well Red symbolizes Hardiness & Valor, White symbolizes Purity & Innocence & Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance & Justice.
The flag has been used to Display our Nationalism, as well as our Rebellion & everything else in between. The Flag is so important that its history tells the story of America itself. It Represents the Freedom, Dignity & true meaning of being & American. Its also a symbol of the Military Men/Women who fought for our Freedoms for our Country.
Burning or Defacing a Flag is a Crime in most Countries, so Y not ours??
So Y do our Citizens want to destroy the Flag?? Its disrespectful to those who have fought & died for us.
I don’t understand people anymore. Very Sad.
if its under the first amendment, then why cant i burn the democrat headquarters? or the republican headquarters, and be able to just walk away?
Burning the American flag as a protest is not free speech.
Ya know, I seem to remember a story a few years back about how these knuckleheads somewhere in the Middle East burned an American Flag & the fumes from the material it was made from turned out to be POISONOUS, KILLING the ones who burned it. Yes, part of me couldn’t help LAUGHING at them & I took GREAT JOY in knowing they got EXACTLY what they deserved. BUT,…..Why not throw some kind of Rider in that Amendment or Bill saying that from now on, ALL AMERICAN FLAGS MUST BE MADE FROM THIS MATERIAL ?!? Seems to me, that would END the whole problem…..OR at least END the IDIOTS who want to burn OUR FLAG…..Just a thought…………
All the Left would have Americans believing burning the flag of other courtiers or even flags representing things like the LGBT groups are “Hate Crimes”.. while demanding burning this Nation’s flag a “Right”. Time for some serious pushback!