Clark Against Flag Burning

Here’s a negative for Retired Army General Wesley Clark: He supports a ban on flag burning despite his professed support of dissent.

Matt Bennett, Clark’s communications director, said Clark saw flag-burning as a “very, very, very particularized form of dissent that he simply can’t abide. I guess he is carving out a little bit, but not very much. For the most part he is a very strong proponent of civil liberties.”

With a few ditto-head exceptions in the group, I know I’m PTTC, but the reasons Clark is a viable candidate for POTUS are the same reasons flag burning is a valid protest. His actions for this country, serving time and leading soldiers, under the flag are the same actions committed under the flag today in Iraq — only the motives are (questionably) different. Burning the flag is a shocking statement about what is preceived as desecration of this country’s reputation by the administration. Arresting a citizen for expressing their opinion in any non-harmful fashion is a violation of the reasons people fight for this country.

Posted by etrigan at November 18, 2003 1:56 PM