The US flag with all its stripes and a few of its stars was adopted by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. But today, overpriced textbooks and underpaid schoolteachers have sanitized most of our history and hidden the early controversies while fluffing half-truths, leaving us unclear about what that flag really stands [...]

Posted June 14, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: america, american president, burn, citizenship, civil liberties, civil liberty, first amendment, flag, flag burning, flag day, flags, free speech, liberty, patriot, patriotism, rights. 2 Comments.

My feelings on the Flag Burning Desecration Amendment should have been clear from my Flag Day story. Still, let me offer the t-shirts above as confirmation.
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Posted June 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: america, burn, citizenship, civil liberties, civil liberty, first amendment, flag burning, flag desecration, flag desecration amendment, free speech, liberty, patriot, patriotism, rights. 2 Comments.

The ALA’s Intellectual Freedom folks came up with this Radical, Militant Librarian button (which I found in Library Mistress’ photostream):
In recognition of the efforts of librarians to help raise awareness of the overreaching aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is offering librarians an opportunity [...]

Posted January 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: button, buttons, civil liberties, freedom, intellectual freedom, liberty, librarians, libraries, patriot act, radical militant librarian, radical militant librarian button, radical militant librarian buttons, usa patriot act. 5 Comments.