[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.

[risk]

I'm unimpressed by your authoritarian arguments. I will continue to lobby against your so-called "flag protection amendment," as it does nothing to defend American liberties, nor does it do anything to defend America itself. Private property is not yours, nor is it the state's. You don't have the power to decide what someone else can express under any circumstances. If you did, the meaning of protest and the meaning of resistance to tyranny could always be opposed on the grounds that it violated the state's own integrity. Your arguments for granting the state new powers to limit expression never before offered in the Constitution are hollow and weak, and are the gateway to further intrusion of the state into the minds of its citizens. Most thinking Americans will probably agree with me, so I welcome the chance to put your campaign to the American people for approval.