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Originally Posted by bloodlusta  From what I have heard (from a liberal mind you) liberals are for freedom of speech while conservatives want to stop things like protesting and flag burning? |
Nobody cares about protesting - seriously nobody. Nobody's really cared about them for the last few decades. I havn't heard much about flag burning in the last . . . I think it's been eight years now. Flag burning tends to go along with protests; as stated, nobody cares about protests anymore. The conservative distain for flag buring is an over-exaggerated steriotype.
Funny thing though, peace-protests (liberals) seem to turn violent rather often - I've personally been beaten with signs by peace protestors on several occasions. Yesterday, something like 170 gay guys got arrested for getting violent at a rally against the court ruling on Prop8 - again liberals.
The last time there was a conservative protest (TEA partys on tax day) there wasn't a single arrest, and despite antagonizing visits by code pink and other such groups there was no violence.
Again, libs only like freedom of speech that they agree with. When I was in college (classic liberal area), I continued to voice my conservative views. This got me multiple death threats, attacked in the parking lots on various occasions, you get the idea.