[risk]

I happen to know one who doesn't, and I've discussed the issue with him at length. Just because people have emotional reasons for passing restrictive laws does not make them correct or justified. The Founding Fathers would have disapproved, of that you can be certain.

[familyop]

Our Founding Fathers were in favor of hanging sodomites by their necks until they were dead.

[familyop]

"The Founding Fathers would have disapproved, of that you can be certain."

They supported punishing any who desecrated the flag. Since then, our "constitutionalist" lawyer-judges have decided otherwise. So we who have a right to do so will define our Constitution now.

http://www.cfa-inc.org/about/flagamend4.htm
"Note: Thomas Jefferson, while serving as George Washington's Secretary of State, instructed American consuls to punish 'usurpation of our flag.' Moreover, James Madison pronounced a flag defacement in Philadelphia as actionable in court. As Judge Robert Bork described this historic announcement: 'The tearing down in Philadelphia in 1802 of the flag of the Spanish Minister 'with the most aggravating insults', was considered actionable in the Pennsylvania courts as a violation of the law of nations.'"

[familyop]

And flag desecration isn't "speech." It's conduct: an action for the purpose of demoralizing our country. It's an attempt to motivate our enemies against us.

Most civilians do not understand the history of flags or what flags are for, although I would be more than happy if our History texts began to include something of the more relevant History of flags.

When a country's flag in its capital is on the ground long before daylight, the country that it represented is defeated.