Column: Grasping for divisive issues, Trump revives a real loser — banning flag burning

Back in 1968, Congress passed the Federal Flag Desecration Law after Vietnam War protesters destroyed American flags. Eventually, 48 states also banned flag desecration.

By 1989, the court had rendered invalid all state and federal laws aimed at protecting the flag from protesters., arose from an incident that occurred in Dallas at the 1984 Republican National Convention. Not one to relinquish his constitutional rights, Johnson was arrested in 2016, outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where he burned a flag in protest “because,” he said, “America was never great.” A judge dismissed his case, and he later won aJohnson was arrested again last year in front of the White House, during Independence Day celebrations, for burning a flag to protest what he called Trump’s “fascist agenda.

opinion Try try again!

opinion 😢

opinion Trump the hypocrite would like us to forget he and Melania posed suggestively in front of the flag he claims to respect displayed backwards and dragging on the floor. The Trumps respect nothing. Stop letting him play you.

opinion Speaxh.. Verse a. Act of burning....insanity!!

opinion Total disgrace

opinion So sad that the US is turning into a country like Iraq, where people vote for their own tribes, Sunni or Shia, instead of political belief. The Republicans and Democrats are becoming two totally different tribes who resent each other very much.

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opinion If only the El Segundo Times believed in free speech, for everyone not just those they agree with.

opinion Why do republicans pretend to care more about a piece of cloth than they do the freedom & democracy that it represents?

opinion If you're a Native American, that flag probably feels like someone waving a swastika in your face. It is probably as inappropriate a symbol as many of us feel the Confederate Flag is, if not more. The right to burn it, not salute it, etc. is a freedom that we will not release.

opinion We get it. The LA Times is Anti-America

opinion When is Yale going to change its name. Wasn’t it named after a Slave Trader? Where’s the outrage?

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opinion Please keep showing it though. You are making POTUS' point to the population

opinion I love the pics though. Keep em coming. Good luck getting hired. 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

opinion Someone will have to explain to Trump what the Constitution is first.

opinion Don't think burning a flag does your cause any good, but Trump wipes his ass with it and his followers don't care.

opinion Why do republicans pretend to care more about a piece of cloth more than they do the freedom that it represents?

opinion Can I burn an effigy of an illegal alien or is that a hate crime or hate speech? How about an effigy of Crooked Hillary? Or would that be considered a threat? The problem today is nothing is sacred.

opinion Don't love America, then get the fuck out. Problem solved.

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opinion So are KKK parades.

opinion He doesn't care about free speech as long as it is not his own.

opinion Ever seen the trump american flag? Disgraceful

opinion Does the L.A. Times condone it then?

opinion They need to respect the flag.

opinion To be honest, if people want to burn flags, go ahead- it willmake them easier to identify as radicals

opinion I would never burn an American flag. That’s just me. But I’m all about burning the confederate one.

opinion Real easy to threaten people who burn flags. Real hard to make it so people don't want to.

opinion I thought he said statue desecration not flag burning.

opinion Banning the burning of our American flag is a 'real loser'? It is not freedom of choice, I will give anyone that. Think about our military, though. How many very brave men and women fight for that flag. Banning flag burning is a good debate. Not a 'real loser'

opinion Irony is that there is a huge amount of actionable abuse and disrespect ( putting it on clothes/adding pictures of trump) carried on by far right

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