quote:fine, don't spit on them literally. spit by them literally, and spit on them figuratively.
ignore the homeless. the impoverished. foreign policies! trick the elderly into buying things they don't need. sue a store anytime you fall in it. protest a movie. be a racist.
there are tons of ways to "express" your rights and freedoms. shit, most all the bad crap that theo mentioned up there was, at one time, fine and right by the law.
i guess an important question is: at what point does expression become abuse?
Abuse is legal (it can at a point become defamation). I can call anyone a fucking dickhead, and they can't stop me.
OK, lets set aside the Old Glory for a moment. I read this morning that Suu Kyi was arrested this morning by the military junta in Burma. They are a bunch of murderous pricks.
Would you be offended if I went to the Burmese embassy and burned their flag as a form of protest?