Crows Hate ICE Too
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Catholic; lefty Iraq veteran; attorney-at-caw. Defensora Pública. Anti-fascist for life, come at me Bondi. Giant geek. Butlerian Jihad Now. “Fellow traveler” per the State Department, apparently
![The footnote of a legal document reads, “It is to persuade them that they are wrong. “To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence” [cite] And, precisely because it is our flag that is involved, one’s response to the flag burner may exploit the uniquely persuasive power of the flag itself. We can imagine no more appropriate response to burning a flag than waving one’s own, no better way to counter a flag burner’s message than by saluting the flag that burns , no surer way of preserving the dignity even of the flag that burned than by - as one witness here did - according its remains a respectful burial.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4yniyii7dmwsxb3fap345ptv/bafkreie7onb5ohn34ikpf3qjgwpzrdlpgzwlxh5znmui3bubwygz7flli4)
