Matt Walsh is WRONG | Burning the Flag is as American as it Gets!

Liberty Lockdown

Clint Russell

Politics, News

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Trump’s new executive order criminalizing American flag burning has sparked outrage, with critics arguing it violates First Amendment rights. This video dives into the controversy, exposing the contradictions in defending a symbol of freedom by restricting free speech. From Supreme Court rulings to Matt Walsh’s take, we unpack why this move is a dangerous overreach. Join the debate and share your thoughts below! Check out my show over on Fountain: https://www.fountain.fm/show/nUTYcMtl4yMuoKHljZWu Become a supporting member of Liberty Lockdown here!: https://libertylockdown.locals.com/ This is where I do monthly AMA's for supporting members only Super valuable stuff! Twitter: https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod Pickup LL shirts over at https://www.toplobsta.com/products/ll-lakers?_pos=5&_sid=e7319ba4a&_ss=r&variant=40668064186434 NEW DESIGNS JUST DROPPED All links: https://www.libertylockdownpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/libertylockdown As always, if you leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts with your social media handle I'll read it on next weeks show (audio version only)! Love you long time Liberty Lockdown presents a variety of opinions, sometimes opposing and controversial. They are not representative of the host of the podcast. Guests are encouraged to express their opinions in a safe and equitable environment.

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0:00.0	If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail. If you burn a flag, you get, and what it does is incite to riot. I hope they use that language, by the way, did that? Insight to riot. And you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don't get 10 years, you don't get one month. You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record. Can you feel the freedom, ladies and gentlemen? One year in prison if you burn our beloved American flag. Wow. I've never felt more patriotic in my entire life. Now, setting aside the fact that the American flag, and if there is any reason to love it or cherish it for that matter,
0:39.3	is because of what it symbolizes. Now, what does it symbolize? Well, right to self-defense, free speech.
0:47.3	All of the things enshrined the Bill of Rights, for instance. What's one of those things that's enshrine the Bill of Rights?
0:53.3	Oh, it happens to be the First Amendment.
0:55.0	It happens to be the very first thing.
0:56.0	And it happens to be freedom of expression, which, that very sad court adjudicated all the way back in
1:03.0	1989, I think it was Johnson versus Texas, that in fact, flag burning, specifically American flag burning, is a constitutionally protected right.
1:13.6	Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag burning.
1:16.6	It charges your attorney general.
1:18.6	Would you listen to this? This is very important.
1:20.6	Flag burning.
1:22.6	All over the country, they're burning flags.
1:24.6	All over the world, they burn the American flag and as you
1:28.7	know through a very sad court I guess it was a five to four decision they called
1:35.0	it freedom of speech but there's another reason which is perhaps much more
1:39.0	important it's called death because what happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy.
1:46.0	If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy.
1:48.0	You could do other things. You can burn this piece of paper.
1:51.0	You can, and it's, but when you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we've never seen before.
1:59.0	People go crazy. In a way, both ways.
2:02.6	There are some that are going crazy for doing it.
2:04.6	There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it.
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