My position on the burning of the American flag at the Capitol during the summer of 2024 by Palestinian protestors is unforgivable, and they should all be thrown in jail. To my way of thinking about the issue, if a person, American citizen or not, decides to desecrate the flag, then that is a conscious statement of rebellion and un-American activities meant to overthrow the country, and it cannot be allowed to occur. These kinds of actions are not protected free speech under the First Amendment. They are treasonous, detrimental, and meant to inspire insurrection. Any legal argument to the contrary is founded on the progressive interpretation of case law, not on the intent or scope of actual American law. Legal people have been getting this separation of church and state issue wrong for hundreds of years, and it’s time to address the problem for future clarity. If you burn or desecrate the American flag in any way, even kneeling at an NFL game when required to stand, you deserve severe punishment up to prison and possibly even all the options under treason. By desecrating the American flag, the provocateur is stating that they do not support the values for which that flag stands and are abandoning the protections of the American Constitution. It’s just like the premise of swearing to tell the whole truth, so help you, God, while putting a hand on the Bible. Without a profession of shared values, you cannot have a civil discourse. So if the American way of life is criticized through protest where desecration of fundamental values takes place, such as these radical Palestinian protesters involved themselves, they do not get the legal protection of the First Amendment. And that’s not up for debate in any legal circle. Here’s why.
I love the concept of a law and order society, as I have said many times, many, many times—a few of my favorite books are The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers. I read them all the time, and they are never far from my reading chair, which gets attention many times in a single week, all weeks of the year. To read them and understand the intellectual argument that is taking place in that debate between big government and small government forces that shaped our Constitution, you have a lot more meaning if you have a good understanding of the Bible. The Bible is the foundation of the American Constitution and our entire legal system. The people who founded America were people of Judeo-Christian backgrounds, and their spirit of separation of church and state was to have more ability to worship God more fully without the state getting in the way, such as what happened in Europe during the period of the Revolutionary wars in both America and France. Established elites of society designed America’s Revolution to free the minds of the masses toward rule-based self-government. Where the revolution in France was an early version of Marxist tyranny, inciting the masses to overthrow the established government so that tyranny could rule as a centralized authority, which paved the way for Napoleon to become emperor. What kept those two different revolutions separate was the concept of a God-based society in America as opposed to a mob-driven monstrosity in France of Godless heathens. All Marxist mobs, which would later be spelled out for global distribution by Karl Marx himself, sought to remove the concept of God from the governing of a country so that radicalism could take over power in the chaos. It’s the communist playbook, and these Palestinian protestors are wrapped with Marxism at the core of their culture, and it is the root of their protests in every case.
Then, if you are ever so fortunate to study the 2024-1 Ohio Criminal Law Handbook, or whichever state you reside in, their version of it. In that case, you will see a thing of beauty, filled with the intent to have a constructive, free society that promises individual rights for all and protects them from those who might take advantage of those individual rights. And that is the game of the international Marxists; they seek to erode the American system of law and order by destroying the concept of individual rights, which is a foundation idea articulated through Biblical narrative. The concept of individual sanctification started with the Bible and has evolved through American law to preserve individual rights. So when Palestinian protestors are desecrating the American flag, they are attacking the very nature of the preservation of individual rights and are proclaiming dominion over any such concept. Even so, the basic understanding of most veterans of military service, who care for the flag and do not let it even touch the ground when they are putting it up, is to protect an idea that they learned in basic service as military personnel. To allow any aspect of a free culture to desecrate those high ideas of individual preservation protected under shared rules and regulations of a mass society is to show intent to destroy such concepts, which can only be considered criminal in relation. The desecration of the American flag is not some remote, distant country that can be conquered and then re-established with a new government under new guidelines. Instead, the flag represents law dedicated to the individual rights of sovereign people, dedicated to their lives and the God that made them.
Just this very day, I had the opportunity to participate in a gun competition out in God’s country, which I have always enjoyed. This one was the Annie Oakley Festival in Darke County, Ohio. Before starting, we all said our pledge of allegiance to the flag, and all our gun-shooting members were very respectful and paid attention to the little ceremony with dedicated solemnity, and it was very refreshing. We can’t all live in the same world with the same values if criminal thugs are going to hide their malice and ill intentions toward our sovereign status as individual members of society if we are going to have some who will give anything to the American flag and its high ideas, and those who would burn it on the steps of the Capitol and step upon it like mad virgins at a stag party under a drunken stupor. Such corrosive societies were discussed very much in the Bible, and we have built American life with those harsh lessons in mind. The intent of our legal system down to every bit of state revised code intends to free people from authoritarian tyranny by collective masses, and the statement made by the Palestinian protestors on the Capitol in July of 2024 was to desecrate those protections for destruction, now and forever. It was a direct attempt to undermine American society by hiding terrorism behind a veil of Free Speech protected only by the flag of America. By purposely destroying the flag, participants reject the concepts of individual protections given under shared consideration of allegiance to that flag. And the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible. With Liberty and Justice for all. In that context, the problem is obvious: those burning and destroying the American flag are intent on killing all those lofty goals and casting members of that society into the chaos of communist thought as the rest of the world suffers without any recourse by social destruction planned from the outset. And that can’t be allowed.
Rich Hoffman
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