<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>What should President-elect Trump's punishment be for those cowards who rode bogus medical deferments during the Vietnam War while others committed themselves to their patriotic duty . . . of which 58,191 never returned and are memorialized on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.</div><div><br></div><div>Cowards, such as himself . . .</div><div><a href="http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-draft-deferments/">http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-draft-deferments/</a></div><div><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div></div></div><div><br>On Nov 29, 2016, at 1:05 PM, Linda Pall <<a href="mailto:lpall@moscow.com">lpall@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>We should send Mr. Trump an authentic replica of one of the jackets worn by
the protester who was jailed for wearing a rude comment on a flag motif jacket
during the Viet Nam War...which took him to vindication by the U.S. Supreme
Court! The ‘president select’ needs a class in basic constitutional law...</div>
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<div>It’s already a bumpy ride,</div>
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<div>Linda Pall</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="thansen@moscow.com">Tom
Hansen</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 29, 2016 6:03 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Trump ignores First Amendment,suggests jail
time for flag-burning</div></div></div>
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<div>Courtesy of <i>CNN</i> at:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/politics/donald-trump-flag-burning-penalty-proposal/index.html?sr=fbCNN112916donald-trump-flag-burning-penalty-proposal0104PMVODtopLink&linkId=31691676">http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/politics/donald-trump-flag-burning-penalty-proposal/index.html?sr=fbCNN112916donald-trump-flag-burning-penalty-proposal0104PMVODtopLink&linkId=31691676</a></div>
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<h1 class="pg-headline" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; FONT-FAMILY: cnn, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, utkal, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: 300; COLOR: rgb(38,38,38); PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN: 10px 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.0645; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased">Trump
ignores First Amendment, suggests jail time for flag-burning</h1>
<p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; FONT-WEIGHT: 700; FONT-STYLE: normal">(CNN) -
</cite><span>President-elect Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday a penalty --
including possible jail time or loss of citizenship -- for burning the American
flag, in spite of two US Supreme Court rulings that protect the act under the
First Amendment as a form of free speech. </span></p></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><span>"Nobody
should be allowed to burn the American flag -- if they do, there must be
consequences -- perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!," Trump
tweeted.</span></div></div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><span>The
Supreme Court twice affirmed the right to desecrate the American flag as a form
of free speech -- a historically contentious issue -- in cases before the high
court in 1989 and 1990.</span></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><font color="#000000"><span><a style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; TEXT-DECORATION: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; transition: color 0.2s" href="http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/facts-and-case-summary-texas-v-johnson" target="_blank">In the 1989 case "Texas v. Johnson,</a>" the Supreme Court ruled
5-4 that flag burning was a form of "symbolic speech" that was protected by the
First Amendment. The ruling was granted after an appeal from Gregory Johnson,
who had been convicted by a Texas court of violating a state law that prohibited
the "desecration of a venerated object" such as the US flag.
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><span>The
following year, <a style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; TEXT-DECORATION: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; transition: color 0.2s" href="http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/texas-v-johnson" target="_blank">in "United states v. Eichman,</a>" the Supreme Court again
affirmed the right to burn the flag when it ruled 7-3 that the Flag Protection
Act of 1989 -- passed by Congress in response to the Johnson decision -- was
unconstitutional. </span></div>
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<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><span>When
asked about the Supreme Court rulings on CNN's "New Day," Trump transition
spokesman Jason Miller did not respond to questions about the constitutional
protections of flag burning.</span></div>
<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.6666; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased"><span>"Flag
burning should be illegal," Miller repeatedly told CNN's Chris
Cuomo.</span></div></div></div>
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<div><span>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div>
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<div><span>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants
on)</span></div>
<div><a style="href: "http://www.moscowcares.com/""><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div>
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<div><span>Tom Hansen</span></div>
<div><span>Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div>
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