[risk]

Come on, you guys know better than to support this amendment. If someone owns a flag and decides to burn it, that's his decision. Even Zell Miller quoted a poem about soldiers who defend others' rights to burn the flag at the RNC Convention.

The Constitution is about limiting government power, not about restraining the American people.

[knak]

you don't burn the flag

[RS]

"Come on, you guys know better than to support this amendment. If someone owns a flag and decides to burn it, that's his decision."

You have it right, this could be a Dem plant to divide...

[Rome2000]

Making these numbskulls vote for burning the flag sounds like a good idea to me.

[stumpy]

You burn MY flag (that I've earned the right to have over me when I'm buried) at your own hazourd in my presence. I will become very violent in expressing my first ammendment rights.

[whereasandsoforth]

You are absolutely correct! I have been against this kind of protection of the flag since the 1960's. The flag is a symbol and nothing more. I feel this way, and believe me, I'm more conservative than Ron and Nancy.

I wrote the following in 1968 when I was 14 years old (it's dumb, but you'll get the point):

Why can't I burn my flag?
I paid for it, didn't I?
And what if it's "just my bag"?
There's another one to buy.

But when it's done I'm held libel,
And thrown in a rocky pit,
But when I burned my Bible,
No one gave a sh*t.

[Brytani]

What Zell said was it is the soldier who gives the right to protest and the right to ABUSE that protest by burning the flag.

He in no way indicated or said he supported burning the flag.

[Indie]

I see your point...but....we're already restrained so much as it is [2nd Amendment usurped, taxation, immigration, licenses required, etc ad infinitum ad nauseum], outlawing flag burning just goes along w/ the marxist-lite government we already have doesn't it? So why not outlaw it?

*hypocrisy alert*

[Puddleglum]

Come on, you guys know better than to support this amendment. If someone owns a flag and decides to burn it, that's his decision. Even Zell Miller quoted a poem about soldiers who defend others' rights to burn the flag at the RNC Convention.

The Constitution is about limiting government power, not about restraining the American people.

I agree. Let's not legislate on the issue but instead try to win over the consciences of folks the flag-burners are trying to persuade. I think conservatism is winning on its own merits and that this law would only reinforce stereotypes about it.

[Freeper]

The Constitution is about limiting government power, not about restraining the American people.

You are absolutely correct.

Although the thought of "protecting" the Flag is honorable, an amendment in the Constitution is not the proper place