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Washington(Special Correspondent);Trump: Flag Burners Deserve Mandatory One-Year Prison Sentence, Call for Jailing Flag Burners, Donald Trump has suggested that those who burn the American flag should receive a mandatory one-year jail sentence.
In reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress on Wednesday, raucous anti-Israel protests erupted across Washington, D.C. Protesters vandalized statues outside D.C.’s Union Station with phrases like “Hamas is comin” and “long live the resistance.” At one point, protesters replaced the American flag with a Palestinian flag and then burned the American flag.
You should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” said Trump. “Now, people will say, ‘Oh, it’s unconstitutional.’ Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that.
We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag you go to jail for one year,” Trump said during a 2020 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “We oughta do it. We talk about freedom of speech…but that’s desecration,” he added.
–Constitutional Concerns:
However, this stance has raised concerns about freedom of speech, as the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning is a protected form of expression.
Protests and Flag Burning:
Trump’s recent comments come after pro-Palestinian protesters burned American flags in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress.
Political Reactions;
Trump’s stance has been met with criticism, with some arguing that it infringes upon freedom of speech and expression.
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable,” wrote Chief Justice William Brennan in the court’s majority opinion. “We have not recognized an exception to this principle even where our flag has been involved.”
While D.C.’s anti-Israel protestors can still face vandalism charges for their actions on Wednesday, every American has the right to burn their own American flag—no matter how offensive some presidential candidates think their actions are.
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