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effigy of obama more sacred than american flag?
Published Sep 25, 2008Views: 234
Obama Efffigy Found Hanging from Tree on Oregon Campus
(WRAL article http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/3600655/ )
NEWBERG, Ore. — Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act that outraged students and school leaders alike.
The disturbing image found near the heart of the campus recalled the days of lynchings of blacks and was all the more incongruous at a university founded by Quaker pioneers in 1891. (Complete and detailed story at the above link)
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And yet protestors can burn the American flag without fear since it's a "protected form of speech" as evidenced by this group of Mexicans burning the American flag as they protest American immigration policies.
Why does the hanging of a carboard effigy with a length of fishing line from a tree cause more outrage and headlines than the burning of an American flag. Why is the flag burning allowed as a form of protected free speech and the hanging of a cardboard effigy seen as a reprehensible act?
I'm not saying it is a good idea to do such as those(or that) student did with the cardboard figure of Obama, but why the venom toward what is simply a form of poltical free speech. When some protestor stands on a street or campus and burns an American flag, the Left and the Liberals are the first to applaud and call for protection of that act. Both are forms of speech. I don't care for either. But if we're going to allow the burning of a single American flag as a form of protected free speech, we should be allowing Obama effigys to be hung like Christmas ornaments across the land.
Illustration from http://www.americanpatrol.com/RALLIES/JULY42000/July4stills-1.html (This site may make your blood boil, be warned before clicking on it)
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"Where?"
You know, everywhere. Raleigh, Clayton, Sanford. And College campuses are the worst! Go to any college campus, and you're sure to either see several protests with burning flags, or you can at least look in the trashcans and find half burnt flags. And nobody even cares! Yet, people get upset when they hang an effigy of a man from a tree. It's just ridicuouls, and just not fair!
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