No, they were not censored

[lawrocket 3]

I saw a news report of "three Yale students arrested for burning a flag."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/us_nm/usa_flag_burning_dc

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Said Hyder Akbar, 23, Nikolaos Angelopoulos, 19, and Farhad Anklesaria, 19, were arrested on Tuesday and charged in New Haven Superior Court with reckless endangerment, arson, breach of peace, criminal mischief and other offenses.

The details actually reveal that while, yes, they burned a flag, the flag happened to be owned by someone else and flying from the owner's private porch of his private house, on private property.

If you're gonna burn a flag, make sure you bought the flag. Also, you'll want to make sure you are not trespassing onto private property.

I thought I'd put, "Nothing to see here" before it gets posted about censorship of flag burning.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[akarunway 1]

Bail was kinda high. Maybe BUSHES OSHA was involved. They prolly didn't have a class 3 fire extinquisher w/ em

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[dorbie 0]

The Reuters article sure tries hard to spin this as a freedom of speech issue at the end and deftly avoids the facts you highlight. That's either incompetent or dishonest reporting.

Sadsacks. Maybe they just got lost and found themselves studying in the wrong country. It seems like a piss-poor way to act when you're a guest (two guests, one is an immigrant from Pakistan).

I for one will laugh if the judge sends them to jail as a prequell to a one way ticket home.

The description of citizen Akbar's book has some interesting info...

http://www.amazon.com/Come-Back-Afghanistan-California-Teenagers/dp/1582345201

[juanesky 0]

Yes, I am just waiting to those taking this not as a theft-burglary, but as precisely this turn it into a neo con GWB's fault at all costs...

Let me sit back and get the pop corn..

"According to some of the conservatives here, it sounds like it's fine to beat your wide - as long as she had it coming." -Billvon

[rehmwa 2]

If you're gonna burn a china cabinet, make sure you bought the china cabinet and didn't steal it. Also, you'll want to make sure you are not trespassing onto private property in order to steal and burn the china cabinet.

nothing to see here indeed

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[narcimund 0]

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Let me sit back and get the pop corn..

I hope it's a big bag of popcorn because you might be here a while. It's been 15 hours since this was posted and nobody's saying what you're waiting for.

Maybe you have the wrong impression about people?

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[jakee 1,611]

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Yes, I am just waiting to those taking this not as a theft-burglary, but as precisely this turn it into a neo con GWB's fault at all costs...

Nope.

Nope.

Hellooooo?

Dude, there's no-one here.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[billvon 3,132]

>Maybe you have the wrong impression about people?

Not possible! It must be that the lefties are merely working up their moral indignation, and will post defense after defense of this act of vandalism, thus proving their moral bankruptcy. I'm sure it will happen any minute now.

Any minute now.

Real soon.

[ACMESkydiver 0]

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>Maybe you have the wrong impression about people?

Not possible! It must be that the lefties are merely working up their moral indignation, and will post defense after defense of this act of vandalism, thus proving their moral bankruptcy. I'm sure it will happen any minute now.

Any minute now.

Real soon.

-people with more sense than to believe a hyped piece of slanted journalism?
No way! Not in MY country, dad-gum it! We will take any slant the media presents to us and RUN with it, thank you very little!


I LOVE foiled journalistic hype.

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[ExAFO 0]

Supposedly you burn more calories eating and digesting celery than you intake while eating it.

Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW.

[rehmwa 2]

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Any minute now.

Real soon.

naw - I blame JC. He posted the real picture immediately and it's so blatant, that debating it now is pointless.

Now, had he just posted the article and put up a poll? We'd get some discussion. With Nixon/Clinton did it first, gun ownership and WHY, OH WHY aren't we thinking of the children/troops and national health care due to global warming discussions.

Instead, wet towel on a dying fire syndrome.

However, this discussion could get legs. Lack of emergence of a presumed response has it's own bits of fun....

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[billvon 3,132]

>naw - I blame JC.

You blame Jesus? Well, I blame science, you religion-hater you!