"Burn The Flag And Face Arrest."

[Evolution]

http://www.sundayherald.com/58803

Burning the Union flag and wearing masks on public demonstrations would become criminal offences under new laws being proposed by the police and government.

The move follows protests in February over the publication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed, during which Islamic extremists dressed as suicide bombers and carried placards urging murder. Six men were charged , but some charges were dropped because identification of the accused could not be established.

Scotland Yard has submitted the idea of criminalising flag burning to the attorney- general, Lord Goldsmith, alongside proposals to ban demonstrators from covering their faces.

Britain?s most senior Muslim officer, Tarique Ghaffur, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, helped draw up the plans .

But Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties organisation Liberty, said : ?We already have laws that cover the people wearing masks on demonstrations, and criminalising flag burning will only serve to give these people the kind of publicity they could only dream of.?

29 October 2006


I wonder how tough the punishment would be for this sort of crime if the laws get the green light.

[Surfrider]

Interesting article.  The flagburning laws have been held unconstitutional in the United States.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

You can burn the US flag in the US, but if you burn say, the flag of Iran, that is not being sensitive enough to their viewpoint. WTF is wrong with people?

Just try to burn the flag of Iran in Iran. See what happens.

[Booker Floyd]

You can burn the US flag in the US, but if you burn say, the flag of Iran, that is not being sensitive enough to their viewpoint. WTF is wrong with people?

 

Who said those who burn U.S. flags are sensitive?  Your comparison dosent fly; you can burn the U.S. flag, you can burn the Iranian flag.  Thats that - its stupid either way.

Just try to burn the flag of Iran in Iran. See what happens.

I assume youre connecting this to your previous strawman...but whats your point?  Yes, burning an Iranian flag in Iran will not be tolerated like it would in the U.S., thats why theyre Iran and were America.

[Dead N' Bloated]

this happened not too long ago here in Australia. After the cronulla rally, some Leb took the Australian flag from an RSL and burnt it. He was charged but only made to make a public appology. It was gunna be televised but because the ungrateful little cunt was only 17 itwas not aloud to because he was under age. Id hate to think of what would happen to an Aussie of any age if he burnt the Leb flag here let alone in lebenon.


 

[Izzy]

awww - they dont let u have any fun anymore