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    Setting a Prius on fire is expression, also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackwell View Post
    Setting a Prius on fire is expression, also.
    Yes, but it's only legal if it's your Prius.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackwell View Post
    Setting a Prius on fire is expression, also.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Susanna View Post
    Burning the flag is not speech.
    You are absolutely correct.

    "Expression" is not mentioned
    Only speech & press



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    I'll bet if I bought the material and made an effigy of Barack Obama then burned it, video taped it and put it on YouYube, I'd be locked up faster than I could say "free speech".

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    Quote Originally Posted by SuddenImpact View Post
    Yes, but it's only legal if it's your Prius.
    The first amendment protects speech, not expression.
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