///Flag Protection Act of 2005 ///The law would have prohibited burning or otherwise destroying and damaging the US flag with the primary purpose of intimidation or inciting immediate violence or for the act of terrorism. It called for a punishment of no more than one year in prison and a fine of no more than $100,000; unless that flag was property of the United States Government, in which case the penalty would be a fine of not more than $250,000, not more than two years in prison, or both. ///co-sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton Но это совсем другое дело, конечно.
Законопроект 2005-го запрещал действия, которые, по сути, и так уже запрещены законом (incitement of violence, intimidation, destruction of federal property).
Зачем именно Клинтон его спонсировала - это интересный вопрос.
Hillary Clinton is co-sponsoring a bill to criminalize the burning of the American flag. Her supporters would characterize this as an attempt to find a middle way between those who believe that flag-burning is constitutionally protected free speech and those who want to ban it, even if it takes a constitutional amendment. Unfortunately, it looks to us more like a simple attempt to have it both ways.
Senator Clinton says she opposes a constitutional amendment to outlaw flag-burning. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that flag-burning was protected by the First Amendment. But her bill, which is sponsored by Senator Robert Bennett, Republican of Utah, is clearly intended to put the issue back before the current, more conservative, Supreme Court in hopes of getting a turnaround.
It's hard to see this as anything but pandering[...]
Mrs. Clinton says her current position grew out of conversations with veterans groups in New York[...]
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Date: 2016-11-30 05:25 pm (UTC)///The law would have prohibited burning or otherwise destroying and damaging the US flag with the primary purpose of intimidation or inciting immediate violence or for the act of terrorism. It called for a punishment of no more than one year in prison and a fine of no more than $100,000; unless that flag was property of the United States Government, in which case the penalty would be a fine of not more than $250,000, not more than two years in prison, or both.
///co-sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton
Но это совсем другое дело, конечно.
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Date: 2016-11-30 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-30 06:27 pm (UTC)https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/s189
Законопроект 2005-го запрещал действия, которые, по сути, и так уже запрещены законом (incitement of violence, intimidation, destruction of federal property).
Зачем именно Клинтон его спонсировала - это интересный вопрос.
Hillary Clinton is co-sponsoring a bill to criminalize the burning of the American flag. Her supporters would characterize this as an attempt to find a middle way between those who believe that flag-burning is constitutionally protected free speech and those who want to ban it, even if it takes a constitutional amendment. Unfortunately, it looks to us more like a simple attempt to have it both ways.
Senator Clinton says she opposes a constitutional amendment to outlaw flag-burning. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that flag-burning was protected by the First Amendment. But her bill, which is sponsored by Senator Robert Bennett, Republican of Utah, is clearly intended to put the issue back before the current, more conservative, Supreme Court in hopes of getting a turnaround.
It's hard to see this as anything but pandering[...]
Mrs. Clinton says her current position grew out of conversations with veterans groups in New York[...]