Sixty years ago, President Harry Truman famously said, "The buck stops here!" In the battle over what the United States will ultimately look like, the main battlefield is the Supreme Court because that’s where the buck now stops in 2005 America.
I continually harp on the subject of a pending amendment to the Constitution to allow states to ban the burning of American flags because the issue has a whole lot more to do with the future of America than the condition of a few American flags.
Today’s central question is whether the Constitution will survive intact, as it was written, or will continue to be transmogrified by activist courts to further the agenda of power-hungry elitists. While the attention of the country is focused on the confirmation of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court,left-wing groups like the ACLU and The First Amendment Center are in high gear to stop the flag burning amendment in it’s tracks. Why? Because they recognize that if it passes, it will be a blow to their agenda.
The First Amendment specifically and narrowly names "freedom of speech," but an activist Court has ruled to include "expression" in the legal definition of speech, paving the way for radical groups to advance their agendas through the courts. Groups like the ACLU relentlessly promote a radical agenda through the courts and not the legislatures, effectively bypassing the will of the people.
Bill O’Reilly, in the "Talking Points" segment of his show last Wednesday said, "The ACLU simply wants a different country, a nation where conduct it approves of, public sexual displays, child molestation literature is allowed. But the ACLU wants to inhibit conduct it disagrees with, like protesting the border and celebrating the birth of Jesus."
The flag burning amendment is a sleeper issue. Most Americans find it hard to get worked up over it since the consequences of someone actually burning an American flag are so small. But the potential benefit from a win for either side is huge. The left knows it. I hope the right figures it out before it’s too late.