Damaging the “the symbols of the European Union” could result in a fine or a custodial term of up to three years under new laws proposed in Saxony, Germany.
Lawmakers in the German state want to pass new legislation “to take firm and effective action against those whose aim is to disparage the fundamental values of the European Union” by attacking “the reputation of the symbols of the European Union”, according to the Saarbrücker Zeitung regional newspaper.
The proposed law would make rendering the European Union flag — a circle of twelve gold pentagram stars on a field of blue — either “removed, destroyed, damaged, unusable or unrecognisable” a crime punishable by a fine or a custodial term of as much as three years, the newspaper reports.
Yet it's perfectly legal to burn the American flag.
WTF
Levi Powell
I will start burning that gay communist flag. Fuck the EU
Juan Davis
Unless you are Muslim
Ian Walker
Seems reasonable. Why should flag desecration be a thing, because America says it must be? If you don't like the EU just leave, this is a freedom all EU citizens have.
Juan Ramirez
Because America allows people to create speech, including symbolic speech, that we don't particularly like, even if we don't like it. Also burning the flag is considered the correct way to retire an already damaged flag, so even if it were illegal to disrespect it, burning it isn't disrespectful under the right circumstances.
how jewish of you burning the EU flag should not be punishable because it is not a national flag.
Blake Cook
Nations and national flags are from a bygone era. They are just symbolic and superseded by the EU. The EU is our state now. If your mentality cannot deal with that then perhaps its better you go to Putins Russia to LARP as a big nationalist.
Camden Perry
Fuck off nazi
Samuel Brown
Holy shit the Fascists weren’t this fascistic
Camden Ortiz
Can you legally burn the german flag?
Lucas Bailey
The EU needs to be dismantled.
Luis Wilson
You can gtfo out of the EU too if you don't like it Baudouin. Seriously the EU is the best thing to happen to Europe in forever and you retards want to destroy it just so you can march up and down like you are worth something. Europe is strongest as a unit asswipes, how can pathetic Belgium face down the Chinese on their own, they can't.
Grayson Mitchell
Belgian nigger kike detected
Kayden Edwards
No flag in vexillolocial history deserves more burning than the fucking Weimar flag.
Julian Mitchell
lol you just know this law would only go in effects when whites do it
Joshua Barnes
Of course you could still burn the flag, as it would be part of freedom of speech. Its to protect offically raised flags. Still senseless. EU is not a state, so it doesnt need special protection, apart from normal damage to property laws
Joshua Turner
what if i just throw it in the trash?
Anthony Garcia
Fake news. Germany would never do this given their history, they know that flag worship is stupid.
Dylan Ross
instant gulag
Oliver Reed
shouldn't you be using a memeflag to jewpost so hard?
Lincoln Howard
>The federal states will discuss next week a legal protection of EU symbols against DENIGRATION and destruction. kek the entire EU has been deniggerated
Ian Myers
Fuhrer Merkel knows that she needs to go the roundabout route to bring in the 4th Reich. If she needs to expand nationalism to make it continentalism, then so be it.
Aaron Gutierrez
How can the EU face China if they lash out over basic expressions of free speech like a flag being burned? You are well on your way to being a totalitarian shithole like China by making moves like that.
Easton Gray
Hol up hol up is it going to be illegal to burn the EU flag but not the German flag?
It's already forbidden to burn the federal or state flags. I don't know if burning your own flags is prohibited though or if its free speech or if its only applicable for official flags and otherwise displayed ones.
Josiah Lee
mudslimes can get away with burning the dutch flag and we should go to jail when burning the new ussr flag? Fuck the european union. Oh wait its in germany. lmao
Tyler Robinson
You can burn any flag in the US. I don't like it when someone burns any of our flags here but I'd rather the law allow people to do it than not.
John Diaz
>Germany was always anti-freedom. Exactly. Anglos just don't get it.
>burning the EU flag should not be punishable because it is not a national flag. That's a good point actually. Strangely enough these kind of bans are getting more and more weakened, yet here they want to strengthen them.
>Nations and national flags are from a bygone era. They aren't and they will live much longer than any supernational entity.
>They are just symbolic and superseded by the EU. That's what people said about the League of Nations and the UN.
You've got the digits but you are badly informed. We have a long way to go.
Justin Edwards
Its supposed to protect the integrity and honour of the state. There is also a law against desecrating the national anthem and other state symbols. I think this could be a free speech issue, but in the end, who burns the flag burns the honour of its own people.
Luke Fisher
You'd think it would be the German flag burning that would make them so triggered.
Apparently the EU flag is greater than the national flags these days.
This shit is getting weird. Never thought i would live in a communist super state
Brandon Torres
>The EU is our state now. A meaningless state, representing no one. Who gives a shit if its flag gets burned? No one cares if you burn a mcdonalds flag.
