WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.399 If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.879 No early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail. 3 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.480 If you burn a flag, you get And what it 4 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.320 does is insight to write. I hope they use that language. 5 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:17.120 By the way, did that insight to riot? And you 6 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:18.960 burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You 7 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.280 don't get ten years, you don't get one month. You 8 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.960 get one year in jail and it goes on your record. 9 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:26.960 Can you feel the freedom, ladies and gentlemen, one year 10 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.280 in prison if you burn our beloved American flag. Wow, 11 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:34.200 I've never felt more patriotic in my entire life now, 12 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.840 Setting aside the fact that the American flag, and if 13 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.840 there is any reason to love it or cherish it 14 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.439 for that matter, is because of what it symbolizes. Now, 15 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.880 what does it symbolize? Well, right to self defense, free speech, 16 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:49.679 all of the things enshrined to the Bill of Rights. 17 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.840 For instance, what's one of those things that's enshrining the 18 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.679 Bill of right? Oh, it happens to be the first amendment. 19 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:56.600 It happens to be the very first thing, and it 20 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:00.560 happens to be freedom of expression, which that very sad 21 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.120 court adjudicated all the way back in nineteen eighty nine. 22 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.560 I think it was Johnson versus Texas that, in fact, 23 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:13.719 flag burning, specifically American flag burning, is a constitutionally protected right. 24 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:17.519 Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag burning 25 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:19.920 that charges your attorney general. When you listen to this, 26 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.599 this is a very point flag burning all over the country. 27 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.680 They're burning flags all over the world. They burn the 28 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:31.400 American flag, and as you know, through a very sad court. 29 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.760 I guess it was a five to four decision. They 30 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.599 called it freedom of speech. But there's another reason, which 31 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:41.200 is perhaps much more important. It's called death. Because what 32 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:46.040 happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy. 33 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:48.840 If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. 34 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:50.439 You could do other things, you can. 35 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.359 Burn this piece of paper, you could, and it's but 36 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.799 when you burn the American flag, it incites riots at 37 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.640 levels that we've never seen before. People crazy in a 38 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.799 way both ways. There's some that are going crazy for 39 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:08.360 doing it. There are others that are angry angry about 40 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:09.240 them doing it. 41 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.280 So why would Trump do this? Well, there was a 42 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.599 major outcry just a few weeks ago that there was 43 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.400 a ruling from a court in America that said that 44 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.479 the Israeli flag was equal or being equated to that 45 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:31.240 of being Jewish, and therefore to damage the Israeli flag 46 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.080 could be construed as a hate crime. There's also very 47 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.680 famous examples of people being arrested for burning gay Pride 48 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:44.039 flags or doing burnouts on these painted gay Pride flag crosswalks. 49 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.039 In most instances, though, particularly when it comes to specifically 50 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:51.879 burning those flags, it was a consequence of people stealing 51 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:56.039 other people's property, taking their pride flag and lighting it ablaze. 52 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.520 It wasn't you know, people that were purchasing gay Pride 53 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.280 flags and then letting them on fire, which would be 54 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.039 constitutionally protected. It was the theft of that property which 55 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.639 then made it a crime. Now there may be additional 56 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.560 penalties that are attempted to be applied under hate crime laws, 57 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.639 which you ought to oppose. Hate crime laws, as I've said, 58 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.599 are a very slippery slope to the erosion of your 59 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:20.080 rights and trying in the Bill of rights. This is 60 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.719 a great example of that. And you've got Matt Walsh 61 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:26.319 and Ruffo and all of the usual characters coming out 62 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:30.120 in defense of Trump's executive order from a couple hours ago, 63 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.479 and they're saying essentially that, well, we cherish and defend 64 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.680 and protect the gay pride flag or the transflag or 65 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:41.879 whatever else, so therefore the American flag should also be protected, 66 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:45.319 as opposed to the obvious answer, which is that none 67 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:47.759 of these pieces of cloth should have any protection. That 68 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.319 you ought to have the right to light a blaze 69 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.840 any of them, as long as they're your own personal 70 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.840 property and as long as you're not doing so in 71 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:57.719 a way that would jeopardize a wider forest fire or 72 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:01.439 something crazy like that. That is really the reason that 73 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.680 the American flag is valuable, right, Well, at least that's 74 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.199 what I thought. That's the reason I thought that we 75 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.240 pledged allegiance to it. Well, I tried not to in 76 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.039 high school. I actually got suspended and thrown the attention 77 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.800 because I refused to stand up. I've been a bit 78 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.519 out of a serial with people in authority my entire 79 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.560 life and true story. I was put in I don't 80 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.600 know what was it Saturday school. They were not happy 81 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:29.480 with me anyways. The reason that I thought that there 82 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.839 was any reason to respect the American flag was because 83 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.680 it was symbolic of these rights that we hold so dearly. 84 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:36.639 And the reason that you would like the American flag 85 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.040 ablaze was not to demonstrate your hatred of America or Americans, 86 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.519 but rather the government and it's failings in defending those rights. 87 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.240 So is the American flag actually worth defending? Well, if 88 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.759 it's to the detriment of the rights for which it represents, 89 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.160 then the answer must be no. And if you think otherwise, 90 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.560 then I don't think you're actually respecting or honoring what 91 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.399 that flag represents. And it's so disappointing every time I 92 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:09.240 see a true blue, red, white and blue bleeding conservative 93 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:14.079 come out in defense of these laws, these obvious infringements 94 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:16.399 on our right. It was actually Supreme Court Justice Antonin 95 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.519 Scalia who said, if it were up to me, I 96 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.839 would put in jail every sandal wearing, scruffy bearded weirdo 97 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.959 who burns the American flag. And then he continued, but 98 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.560 I am not king, and then he voted against criminalizing 99 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.079 the burning of the American flag. Wise, words, Antonin Scalia, 100 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:36.079 if only as one of the more ardent conservative justices, 101 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.800 Donald Trump would listen to your very intelligent analysis of 102 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.360 our rights and why a law such as this should 103 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:46.680 not exist. So, just to make sure that I'm being 104 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.279 fair to Matt Walsh, let's actually read exactly what he says. 105 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.639 He says, Yes, make it a crime to burn the 106 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.759 American flag. Desecration of the gay Pride flag is already 107 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.120 prosecuted as a hate crime in this country. No more 108 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:00.040 double standards. If the sacred symbol of the LGBT T 109 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.160 cult is protected, American flag should be two simple as that. Well, no, 110 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:08.800 it's actually not that simple, Matt. It's not The LGBT 111 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.120 symbol should not be cherished and protected either. That's the 112 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.839 obvious answer here. So while I agree with your critique 113 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:21.439 of these laws that put special protections around symbols of 114 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.560 ideologies which you disagree with, and I totally respect your 115 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.240 opinion on that, Well, the answer is not to then 116 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:32.399 apply the same unconstitutional, what I think are clearly illegal laws, 117 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.079 especially the fact that Trump's is doing this by executive order. 118 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:40.439 How the fuck are you crafting laws via FIAT as 119 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.800 the executive that could actually put Americans in prison? When 120 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.959 did we start doing that? That the president is able 121 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.240 to just criminalize things willy nilly seems pretty absurd. But 122 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:53.480 as I said, the obvious answer is to make it 123 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:55.920 so that there are no hate crime laws, that there 124 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.480 are no protected pieces of cloth that represent ideologies that 125 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.920 you hate, Because there are ideologies like the one you hold, 126 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.240 Matt Walsh, that many in America also hate, and they 127 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.720 would love to criminalize. And for that reason, some of 128 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.800 them would like to ban the waving of the flag itself. 129 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.279 Would you permit them to do so? The answer is 130 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.720 obviously no. But yet you would then make it a 131 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.399 law to permit them from desecrating this flag that you cherish, 132 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.319 completely doing away with the value of that piece of 133 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.839 cloth in the first place. Why it matters to you 134 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.639 and to me. If that's not self defeating, I don't 135 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:33.160 know what it is. So I made a post that's 136 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.519 going kind of viral, and I said that I've never 137 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:37.160 wanted to burn an American flag, but I might do 138 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.160 it today now that Trump violated the First Amendment by 139 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.720 making the legal I was sincere in saying that I 140 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:43.839 don't think that I'll actually, you know, go buy a 141 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.240 flag just to light on fire to make my point. 142 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:50.040 But yeah, like, this was the first time in a 143 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:52.240 very very long time, other than maybe during the War 144 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.040 on Terror or something where I actually sincerely thought about 145 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:56.959 it or the lockdowns. I definitely thought about it during 146 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.720 the lockdowns. But yeah, it's when you late my rights, 147 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:03.040 it makes me want to hold on to them even harder. 148 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:05.560 Just as during the lockdown era, that was the first 149 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.000 time I went and got a gun because I was like, oh, 150 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.920 my rights, my property rights are being violated in such 151 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:15.279 an overway that and totalitarian really had curfews and what 152 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:16.879 time you could go out and where you could go, 153 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.199 and I mean it was insane. It's like, yeah, all right, 154 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.160 well I better fucking hold on to these liberties that 155 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:23.480 I have left, Especially in California. At the time, it 156 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:25.920 was like, well, it's very hard to acquire a gun. 157 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:27.959 You better get it while you can, because I thought, 158 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.120 who knows. If they think they can dictate what businesses 159 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.039 can remain open and what beaches I could use, well, 160 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.240 then they certainly could try and take whatever remaining gun 161 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.480 rights I have in California. If you're not aware, it's 162 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.320 already very challenging to own a firearm. So that's the 163 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.120 same feeling I get with Donald Trump doing this and 164 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.600 now to steal men his position. There are a lot 165 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:50.480 of people that hate this country sincerely, that are like 166 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:55.080 enemies of America, that are getting American flags and then 167 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:58.519 lighting them blaze in protest of this country, and they're 168 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.480 doing it in America, and that doesn't make me feel good. 169 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.759 I don't enjoy watching people that hate me and hate 170 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.200 this country and hate what it stands for, purchase this 171 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.440 flag and then light it a blaze to make their point. 172 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:12.200 But I'm not going to sacrifice my own ability to 173 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.240 do so to protest my own government just to stop 174 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:16.679 the people that I hate from doing something that I 175 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.919 don't like. You understand, like, is that not obvious to 176 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.120 everybody that if I don't have that right, then also 177 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.799 the people in this country that are also citizens ought 178 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.159 to have that right, because if they don't, I won't either. 179 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:29.440 So with that viral post, I got a ton of replies, 180 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.879 and granted, most people are agreeing with me, and I 181 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:35.200 appreciate that, but there was a lot of you know, 182 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.519 big all caps maga hats out there that I responded 183 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:42.960 to me furious and defending Donald Trump's move. There go 184 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.200 through some examples. They said, then you should move to 185 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.759 another country. Most countries would unalive you for burning their flag. 186 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.559 You just lost all your credibility. Well, sir, I don't 187 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.200 think that's quite true. I don't think I'm gonna lose 188 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:59.759 my credibility for defending the First Amendment. That would be weird, 189 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.840 weird reason for me to lose my credibility. But sitting 190 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.159 on aside, let's just go through the argument here. So, 191 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.799 because I am defending the rights that are unique to America, 192 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:12.559 you're going to point to a country that is less 193 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:16.279 free than America to demonstrate why America should be less free? 194 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:19.879 Can you not see the obvious contradiction in this argument? 195 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:21.639 It's mad. I mean, there are lots of countries that 196 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:25.240 wouldn't allow me to purchase a gun. Should I accept 197 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.759 the banning of firearms in America because I couldn't buy 198 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.559 one in I don't know, Guatemala or some shit like 199 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.399 fuck you? And I've got a net saying. He didn't 200 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:36.919 say you can't do it. You can still light it up. 201 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.519 You can still light up our beloved flag. You'll just 202 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.120 have to pay a penalty. Oh. One of my favorite arguments, 203 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:47.480 kind of like the the masks and vax requirements. They 204 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.120 didn't say that you have to get it. They just 205 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.840 said that you couldn't work if you didn't. Well, that's 206 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.919 quite kind of coercive, now, isn't it. Well, they didn't 207 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:57.000 say you can't murder people, you just have to serve 208 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.440 twenty to thirty years in prison if you do it. Well, yeah, 209 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.960 that's kind of an infringement on my right to self 210 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.960 expression when it comes to burning a flag. No, it's 211 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.759 obviously I'm not arguing in favor of doing away with 212 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.600 murder crimes because there's a real victim there. But there 213 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:14.840 is no victim when it comes to me lighting my 214 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:18.240 own personal property on fire, unless you're some Green New 215 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.960 Deal lunatic and thinks that the carbon dioxide is an 216 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.919 existential threat and therefore we must ban it for that reason. 217 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.879 But that's not the argument you're making. Then this is 218 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.559 always my favorite when shit like this happens. We've got 219 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.799 anti Kammi Tommy, very anti communists, says, if you do 220 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.519 it in public place, hopefully you're arrested for arson. Now, 221 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.480 I'll admit, if I were to light anything on fire 222 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.559 in public and jeopardize other people, then yeah, that should 223 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.480 probably be illegal. But if I were to, as a 224 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.960 form of protest of my government, which is literally as 225 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.639 American as it gets, put an American flag on the 226 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.399 sidewalk and let it on fire, you could look through 227 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.159 the civil rights movement. You could look through the anti 228 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.240 Vietnam protests, you could look through all protests. Basically, there 229 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:01.720 are examples of American citizens peace fully lighting an American 230 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.639 flag on fire on the street to demonstrate their very 231 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.360 significant and sincere anger against the government's actions during that period. 232 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.759 That should not be charged with arson. And it's incredibly 233 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.639 ironic that a guy anti Tommy would be arguing for 234 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:23.440 gulags for I don't know, insulting the honor of the state, 235 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.000 really anti commedy. And it gets even better in his 236 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.360 bio it says I can govern myself. Well, no, you 237 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.639 fucking can't, tom No, you can't actually, and you're about 238 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.120 as close to Akami as I've encountered, especially when you're 239 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:43.519 describing yourself as antidad. Just disappointing, seriously, sincerely disappointing that 240 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:45.720 while I would probably agree with you on ninety five 241 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.120 percent of things, that you would describe yourself as anti 242 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:51.360 communists trying to create law to defend a piece of cloth, 243 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:56.679 which is to honor the government. Hello, think these things through, please, 244 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:00.879 And then another line of defense has been consistently received 245 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.039 by me, saying go into any other country and burn 246 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:04.840 their flag in a public setting and come back if 247 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:06.720 you make it back and tell us how that worked 248 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.639 out for you. That's not the fucking point here, ladies 249 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:12.840 and gentlemen. I'm not going into some other foreign country 250 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.480 and doing this, and you're right, I probably would be 251 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.360 arrested and jailed for doing so. But that's because those 252 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.879 countries suck. That's because they're not America. That's because they 253 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:28.039 don't have our rights enshrined as America does. And you're 254 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.759 arguing that because those other countries which suck, don't have 255 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.639 these rights, we should also suck. What the fuck are 256 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.600 you talking about? Think about what you're saying. And then 257 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.279 her defense of that is that there's some BS charges 258 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.440 that were brought where this guy was facing fifteen years 259 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.679 in Iowa jail for burning a Pride flag. It's like, yeah, 260 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:49.159 but I don't agree with those laws. And then I 261 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:50.720 ask her and she says, yeah, I don't agree with 262 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.399 those laws either. It's like, okay, well, then we're on 263 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.200 the same page here. Those are bullshit laws, because there 264 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:58.879 should be no piece of cloth that you can't light 265 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.679 a blaze in protest that would cause you to serve 266 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.559 significant prison time. This is madness. But that you're arguing 267 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.799 because of these bullshit laws, that we should have additional 268 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.039 bullshit laws defend the piece of cloth that you value. 269 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:14.480 Come on, now, while Trump said very explicitly that if 270 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:17.200 you burn a flag, you're going to prison for a year, 271 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.759 he then turns to his assistant to basically detail what 272 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:25.279 it's about, and he is not making it that overt. Basically, 273 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.080 what they're doing is they're crafting a law to try 274 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.440 and circumvent your First Amendment rights. So let's go through 275 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:32.159 the executive order and read it to make sure that 276 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:36.320 we're not being Pannikins says. Prosecuting burning of the American 277 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.559 Flag Executive Order August twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, which 278 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.720 is today says, by the authority vested to me as 279 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:44.879 President by the Constitution and the laws of the United 280 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.000 States of America is hereby ordered. God damn it. That 281 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.720 makes me angry when you sign off on an executive 282 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.120 order that violates the Constitution, saying that you're doing this 283 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.600 under the authority vested to you by the Constitution. Disgusting 284 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.279 Section one purpose. American flag is the most sacred and 285 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.279 cherish symbol of the United States of America and of 286 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.320 American freedom, identity, and strength. I would argue its bill 287 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.480 of rights, but whatever, Over nearly two and a half centuries, 288 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:12.240 many thousands of American patriots have fought, bled and died 289 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:14.919 to keep the stars and stripes waving proudly. The American 290 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.679 flag is a special symbol in our national life that 291 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.360 should unite and represent all Americans of every background and 292 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.240 walk of life. Desecrating it is uniquely offensive and provocative. 293 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.120 It is a statement of contempt, hostility, and violence against 294 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.000 our nation, the clearest possible expression of opposition to the 295 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.200 political union that preserves our rights, liberty, and security. Well 296 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.960 what are some of those rights that it's preserving. Freedom 297 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:41.159 of expression, protest, right to redress your grievances against your government. 298 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.080 Well I can't do that now because of this executive order. 299 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:48.159 Burning this representation of America may incite violence and riot. Yeah, 300 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:49.759 well you could do a lot of things that might 301 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.679 incite violence and riots. Are we just going to ban 302 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.960 all of that that? This is actually a really important point. 303 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.480 Murray Rothbart talked about this, and I agree with Rothbart, 304 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.879 not surprisingly because I agree with him on basically everything. 305 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:06.519 Incitement laws are bullshit, Like, if you this is especially 306 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:08.600 for a Trump supporter, given that so many of the 307 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.039 people that were prosecuted on J six were prosecuted for 308 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.240 incitement of a riot. It's like, if you riot and 309 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:16.919 you burn stuff and you're violent towards people, yes, that 310 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.399 should all be criminalized. If you are saying things that 311 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.480 get a crowd riled up and then they go commit crimes, 312 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:29.279 did you eliminate human volition? Are they now just your puppets? 313 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.960 It's absurd, but this is how they essentially go after 314 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:37.240 speech that the government doesn't like because of the actions 315 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.320 of people that aren't you. I don't think that that's 316 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:43.120 just at all personal continuing, American flag burning is also 317 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.879 used by groups of foreign nationals as a calculated act 318 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.720 to intimidate and threaten violence against Americans because of their 319 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:51.159 nationality in place of birth. Well, that sounds like safe 320 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:55.279 space bullshit to me. But also, if these are foreign nationals, 321 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.600 why are they here? Didn't you campaign on deporting these people? 322 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.720 So if they're here burning the flag, shouldn't they be 323 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.200 deported not because they're burning the flag, but because they're 324 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:07.839 here illegally? So do we have to have laws to 325 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.920 protect the flag when these people shouldn't even be here 326 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.920 in the first place, I guess you just don't plan 327 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.480 on deporting them, continuing, notwithstanding the Supreme Court's ruling on 328 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:19.359 First Amendment protections, the Court has never held that American 329 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:21.759 flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to 330 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.440 incite imminent lawless action, or that in an action amounting 331 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:29.720 to fighting words, is constitutionally protected. So there's the work around. 332 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.440 They're basically acknowledging that, yes, it is your constitutional right 333 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.519 to burn the American flag. They are then arguing that 334 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.200 the Supreme Court has not ruled on whether or not 335 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:44.079 burning it in an attempt to incite a riot. I 336 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:49.279 guess or violence would therefore be constitutional to outlaw and 337 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.640 criminalize and prosecute cases of that. I don't know how 338 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:54.839 you're going to prove that someone is lighting the American 339 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:58.799 flag on fire with the intention of inciting riots and violence. 340 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.640 But that's there are that they're gone for, he continues, 341 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.680 My administration will act to restore respect and sanctity to 342 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.559 the American flag and prosecute those who incite violence or 343 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.799 otherwise violate our laws while desecrating the symbol of our 344 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:14.119 country to the fullest extent permissible under any available authority. 345 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.240 Section two, Measures to combat desecration of the American Flag. 346 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.440 The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement, to the fullest 347 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:23.279 extent possible of our nation's criminal and civil laws against 348 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:26.960 acts of American flag desecration that violate applicable content neutral 349 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.079 laws while causing harm unrelated to expression consistent with the 350 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.279 First Amendment. This may include, but is not limited to, 351 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.000 violent crimes, hate crimes, a legal discrimination against American citizens 352 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:39.359 or other violations of American civil rights, and crimes against 353 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.960 property and the peace, as well as conspiracies and attempts 354 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.920 to violate and aiding and abetting others to violate such laws. 355 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.839 In cases where the Department of Justice or another executive 356 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.480 department or agency determine that an instance of American flag 357 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.319 desecration may violate an applicable state or local law, such 358 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:57.519 as open burning restrictions, disorderly conduct laws, or destruction of 359 00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:59.720 property laws, the agency shall refer the matter to a 360 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:02.319 pro bread state or local authority for potential action. I 361 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.759 don't have a problem with that one. I mean, if 362 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.279 you're burning someone else's flag and their property, or you're 363 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.039 lighting it on fire and then you're damaging someone else's property, 364 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:13.240 then you ought to be responsible for that. That makes sense, 365 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.000 but that's not you know, that should be the limiting 366 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.359 principle there See, to the maximum extent permitted by the Constitution, 367 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.920 the Attorney General shall vigorously prosecute those who violate our 368 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:24.720 laws in ways that involve desecrating the American Flag, and 369 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:26.880 may pursue litigation to clarify the scope of the First 370 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:31.279 Amendment exceptions in this area. Well, that's notable because it 371 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:35.119 sounds as if they are pushing this EO to challenge 372 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:39.200 that ruling from nineteen eighty nine Johnson Verse Texas as 373 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.119 to whether or not burning the American flag is constitutional 374 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.680 at all. So that would be very bad if that 375 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.200 were to happen. D Secretary of State, the AG and 376 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:51.160 the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting within their respective authorities, 377 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:55.960 shall deny, prohibit, terminate, or revoke visas, residents permits, naturalization proceedings, 378 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.880 and other immigration benefits, or seek removal from the United 379 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:02.119 States where wherever there has been an appropriate determination that 380 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:05.240 foreign nationals have engaged in American flag desecration activity under 381 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.000 circumstances that permit the exercise of such remedies. Pursuant to 382 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.119 federal law. So essentially, they're saying they're going to use 383 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.599 these laws to deport people that are here that are 384 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.079 not citizens, so not just illegal immigrants, but people on 385 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.200 visas too. It sounds like, so this is just a 386 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:23.559 continuation of this policy that they seem to be trying 387 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:25.839 to use to get rid of not just illegal immigrants, 388 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.559 but also foreign nationals that are here legally. So well, Trump, 389 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.799 who is this just extraordinary hawk against China? Which in 390 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:35.920 some ways I understand that, but in other ways I 391 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:39.079 totally disagree. I don't want to go down the real 392 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:43.240 antagonistic war path with them. But yeah, he's saying, six 393 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.480 hundred thousand Chinese students annually are going to be allowed 394 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:47.400 to come to America. 395 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.759 President, she would like me to come to China. It's 396 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:55.079 a very important relationship. As you know, we're taking a 397 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.279 lot of money and from China because of the tariffs 398 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:01.160 and different things, and it's a very important relationship. We're 399 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.599 going to get along good with China. I hear so 400 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:05.839 many stories about we're not going to allow their students. 401 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.599