Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, the Supreme Court's recent decision on flag-burning has touched off quite a reaction across the nation. Here in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court has never been particularly well-liked, folks have been down-right offensive...
...ignited spilled into the streets. In Boston 300 abortion-rights activists clashed with police as they tried to broadcast their message to tens of thousands of people gathered for the July 4th Boston Pops concert along the Charles River. In Minneapolis a few pro- choice protesters burning a flag were rushed by three waiters from a nearby topless bar. In Atlanta about 450 pro-choice activists carried to the state capitol a stack of coat hangers, a grisly symbol of the back-street butchery they predict if abortion is outlawed...
...they may have to address an issue of public policy on which many of their constituents have strong and irreconcilable opinions. This they hate to do and are skilled at avoiding, even though it is what they are paid for. They would far rather pass laws against burning the flag. But there is no Gramm-Rudman-style automatic chopping machinery that can resolve the abortion issue. Nor can abortion be finessed by handing it over to a commission of distinguished experts (although this ploy will undoubtedly be tried...
...politics is always more fun than government. And Bush, after all, won the White House last year by visiting flag factories and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Whatever the lawyers' cautions, any good politician knows another axiom: Dance with the one what brung...
...Since flag burnings occur only rarely, the amendment would amount to using a sledgehammer to kill a flea. Moreover, legal scholars warn, one exception to free speech could lead to another...