Of course I get all my news from liberal websites. I’m a liberal. I also leave comments in the comments sections of a couple of them, and this does, to an extent, influence my opinion on things. However, total free speech is one of my big issues, and I believe everybody is entitled to it, no matter how big an, ignorant, redneck moron they are.
Here’s the situation: Entrepeneur Don Sessions, from the famous state of Oklahoma, wants to market a beer called Ol’ Glory. Ol’ Glory’s
It's What's Inside the Can That Counts
red, white and blue can just has stars and stripes all over it, plus a picture of the marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima and a copy of the pledge of allegiance to the flag. The federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco and beer can labels has said no. Something about using the flag for commercial purposes, and they particularly object to the use of the pledge of allegiance.
Quite frankly, I think they should mind their own damned business. If Sessions wants to put the flag on his beer cans, why the hell shouldn’t he. If somebody else wants to put out Lenin’s Lager with a hammer and sickle on the can, they should be allowed to do that. If Larry Flynt and Bob Guccione want to put out a beer can with naked ladies on it, I am absolutely all for it, 100%. It’s free speech, which is exactly what Sessions’ lawyer is saying.
I’m not saying that Sessions isn’t a redneck bozo. He wears a flag lapel pin and huge, gaudy rings on every finger of his hands. He is particularly eager to use the pledge of allegiance (and, as I said above, The Federal Bureau of Interference With Free Speech is particularly eager to stop that.
Why not, indeed.
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