"The key fire passage in the burning Bush speech" came from Dostoevsky's The Devils: "We have lit a fire as well; a fire in the minds of men".
Perhaps the Court, applying more recent decisions that have protected flag burning as speech, will provide the Occupiers with the First Amendment protections that it lavishes on Wall Street's political interventions.
For example, he did not believe that flag burning was speech; in Street v. New York (1969), he wrote: "It passes my belief that anything in the Federal Constitution bars a State from making the deliberate burning of the American flag an offense".
Not only had the usually calmly spoken, wonkish Rice given an emotional, barn-burning speech of the sort that had thousands of conventioneers cheering in the aisles but it had also hinted in no uncertain terms at the White House.
Sometimes conduct is speech (think of burning a flag) and sometimes speech is not "speech," as strange as that sounds.
Just in case the concerted 24-hour news media vitriol, burning mosques, hate speech by elected officials at virtually every level of government as well as civil society (who are surely just trying to outdo each other at this point), pervasive culture of dread and fear, and the staggering number and range of hate crimes including cold-blooded murder wasn't enough to convince you of course.
But his burning eyes and stern speech today made his anger as obvious as Vince Carter's leaping ability.
She shifted its focus to securing a constitutional amendment, and protesters started chaining themselves to the fence in front of the White House and burning President Wilson's speeches at public rallies.
"When the cost of speech is a shot of blinding, burning pepper spray in the face, speech is not free".
"The court's strange understanding of the concept of speech," he wrote, "is shown by its suggestion that the symbolic act of burning the American flag is speech but John Quincy Adams calling out 'yea' on the Embargo Act was not".
"In my opinion, burning the flag is not speech," Mr. Lott added.
