Another Usurpation of Power in the Name of Patriotism
The Price of Liberty
by Robert Greenslade
09/06
Congress recently passed, and President Bush signed, The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005. The stated purpose of the act is: 'To ensure that the right of an individual to display the flag of the United States on residential property not be abridged.' While this language sounds real patriotic and all that stuff, the Act is nothing but another attempt to pander to voters in the name of patriotism because the Constitution does not grant Congress any general jurisdiction over flags or residential property within one of the United States...
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/09/04/greenslade.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Robert Greenslade
09/06
Congress recently passed, and President Bush signed, The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005. The stated purpose of the act is: 'To ensure that the right of an individual to display the flag of the United States on residential property not be abridged.' While this language sounds real patriotic and all that stuff, the Act is nothing but another attempt to pander to voters in the name of patriotism because the Constitution does not grant Congress any general jurisdiction over flags or residential property within one of the United States...
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/09/04/greenslade.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 5. Sep, 14:52
