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Originally Posted by Infernal Mass
It failed, there's really no reason to press it any further..what's done is done, time to move on. 1 vote, 10 votes, it doesn't matter how close it was, because 1 is as strong as 10. There are alot of important issues ahead for the Senate. Although, for the sake of discussion..just imagine all the people who would be screaming bloody murder if it had indeed passed, but it didn't pass and still peolpe complain of how close it was.
Only in America.
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Only in America would somebody not look at the numbers and not care what it meant.
1 vote short of a 2/3 majority needed. Think about it. Regardless of other factorsin the process of allowing an amendment ot the constitution, its still an example of how widespread nationalist propaganda and false patriotism has become within our government and in our country. But then again, maybe you are for such a thing. Maybe you are for infringing upon the 1st Amendment.
I believe allowing such laws against something as basic a right as desecration of the flag would be like opening the floodgates for these fascists and spineless jellyfish to literally invade the 1st Amendment with other proposals of restrictions previously thought proposterous. We've already seen it happen with the patriot acts. Fundamentals of our constitution become less sacred over time when this sort of thing becomes more widely accepted by indifferent americans and easily swayed politicians. Those whose purposes are blind to these and with their own personal agendas for the status quo would take full advantage of such a thing. Believe it.
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