From Fox News: As some Democrats mock President Donald Trump for signing an executive order cracking down on burning the American flag, a clip has resurfaced of then-New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton calling for a very similar prohibition against flag desecration.
In a resurfaced clip from 2006, Clinton took to the Senate floor to advocate on behalf of a bill titled the “Flag Protection Act” that she said would make it a crime to desecrate the American flag.
Addressing the Senate president, Clinton said, “I hope, Mr. President, that we can pass a law that criminalizes flag burning and desecration.”
Clinton said, “I agree wholeheartedly that maliciously burning or destroying an American flag is a deeply offensive and despicable act,” adding that it “disrespects our nation, it belittles the sacrifices of our brave veterans, it even sends a message to the soldiers who fight today protecting our freedom that their service is in some way to be disrespected and discounted.”
“I agree that this flag burning, this desecration, that can happen to our flag, is something that people have a right to ask this body to try to prohibit and prevent,” Clinton says in the video.
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday, directing the attorney general to prosecute violations of laws involving flag desecration, and declared that anyone who burns an American flag should get one year in jail.
The order has prompted backlash from Democrats, and from many Republicans as well, who argue that the abhorrent act is still protected by free speech laws.
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