Hey Liberals, in 2005 Hillary Clinton Wanted to Outlaw Flag Burning

Donald Trump knows how to TRIGGER liberals.

He put out a tweet, stating flag burning should be outlawed, resulting in jail time or loss of citizenship.

Predictably, liberals and the media went full-dumbo-crazy.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016

I think some are still foaming at the mouth.

However, most low-info liberals probably do not realize that Hillary Clinton basically called for the same thing back in 2005.

From Fox News:

Despite the Supreme Court’s pronouncements on the issue, seeking to criminalize flag burning has been a regular occurance in American politics, and was pushed in 2005 by then-Sen. Clinton.

In 2005, Clinton co-sponsored the Flag Protection Act which, while it did not call for the stripping of citizenship, made flag burning with the intent to incite violence or disturb the peace punishable by a year in jail and a $100,000 fine.

The bipartisan bill, introduced by Clinton and then-Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, never made it out of the Judiciary Committee, but was floated as a compromise to a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban flag burning.

Clinton was criticized for her stance then, although the criticisms leveled at her targeted Clinton’s perceived political slipperiness, rather than her representing a threat to constitutional liberty. A New York Times piece accused the senator of being “in pander mode.”

“It’s hard to see this as anything but pandering — there certainly isn’t any urgent need to resolve the issue. Flag-burning hasn’t been in fashion since college students used slide rules in math class and went to pay phones at the student union to call their friends,” the paper claimed.

The Tampa Bay Times, meanwhile, called Clinton’s move a “pathetic ploy” and “political pandering of the worst kind.”

Amy Moreno is a Published Author, Pug Lover & Game of Thrones Nerd. You can follow her on Twitter here and Facebook here.

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