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could prosecute. Anyway, do your own reading. You will find that there will be great disagreement on what the executive order says. But what it doesn't do is change the law. So it doesn't change the law. It's the existing law. It might cause some differences in how it's enforced, but I don't even know how to have an opinion on it. It looks like my best guess is that most of the purpose of it, tha…
← Previous segment →ke Trump is just doing one of those Trumpian things where he makes the press and all of his enemies talk about something that's not even real and nobody really cares about that much. And if they're talking about flag burning, it would be more along the lines of, "Hey, Democrats, what do you think about crime in the cities? Well, you must be in favor of it. Hey, what do you think about that border? Well, you must be in favor of gangs coming across the border. Now what do you think of burning flags?" And basically you'll just get them all worked up and they'll be on the side of burning flags, which I am. I'm on the side of it should be free speech. But if you're a Democrat and you come out against flags and in favor of crime and open borders, all of it looks like a trap to me. So maybe it's more about that.
So the EO says it directs aggressive prosecution of related crimes. Related crimes. You see how weaselly this is? The executive order directs aggressive prosecution of related crimes. Not burning the flag because that's still not il
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legal, but if there were any related crimes, make sure you press those. And there's also something about non-citizens. So if a foreign national is doing it, then Homeland Security and the Secretary of State can send them home, I guess. But I feel like that was also something they always could have done, right? Isn't it true that currently if the Secretary of State says, "Whoa, that's bad behavior…
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