DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Continues <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> Takeover of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DC</span></a> By Arresting A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Veteran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Veteran</span></a></p><p>Edith Olmsted<br>Tue, August 26, 2025 </p><p>"A demonstrator who identified himself as a disabled combat veteran was arrested Monday after burning an American flag in protest of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order.</p><p>"Speaking through a megaphone to the onlookers outside of the White House, the protester explained that Trump’s latest decree penalizing flag burning was an affront to the First Amendment.</p><p>" 'I fought for every single one of your rights to express yourself in however you feel that you may want to express yourself,' the protester said, in a video shared to social media.</p><p>" 'No president can make a law—period—no Congress can make a law infringing on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> rights,' he added. 'I’m burning this flag as a protest of that illegal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> president that sits in that house!'</p><p>"The protester then lit the flag on fire.</p><p>"Despite Trump’s claim that burning the American flag 'incites riots at a level we’ve never seen,' no such riot materialized. The protester was promptly arrested by the Secret Service.</p><p>"The Secret Service released a statement that it detained the man 'for igniting an object' and that he was turned over to Park Police, who said they’d arrested him for violating a statute that prohibits lighting a fire in a public park, according to NBC News.</p><p>"Trump’s blatant attack on free speech built on fictitious grounds is an affront to the U.S. Constitution, and the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 in 1989 that flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment."<br><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/veteran-burned-flag-d-c-144107863.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/articles/vetera</span><span class="invisible">n-burned-flag-d-c-144107863.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crackdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crackdown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpIsAFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsAFascist</span></a></p>