Really. Not. Just commenting on the fecklessness (I want to say fecklessisity but I'm pretty sure that's not a word) in our fetish for legislation and pursuing justice with a blindfold on.
To wit, this from a recent NPR piece:
Tarrio [an ex-Proud Boys leader [sic] currently facing a substantial prison sentence for seditious conspiracy] wasn't at the actual Capitol riot because he had been arrested days earlier for setting fire to a Black Lives Matter banner, stolen from Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., and was ordered out of the city.
[Emphasis mine.]
While it is, as the Supreme Court has clearly proclaimed, perfectly legal to burn an American flag.
From LawInfo:
The Supreme Court has tried to define “free speech” in several of its opinions. Basically, it stated that “speech” covers areas beyond talking and writing. The court interpreted the First Amendment to apply to symbolic expressions such as burning flags, burning crosses, wearing armbands, and the like.
And note, Tarrio's punishment for said misbehavior consisted solely of being hustled out of D.C., which might not be an entirely bad thing — and certainly better than being tossed in the slammer. But still I remain a little confused by this.
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