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Posting claims that are not true doesn't help us or harm the dems.

Basically, the flag has to earn respect on its own merits. If people respect it then they will treat it with respect. Passing laws to make desecration of the flag a federal offense won't make people respect the flag any more or less.

Anyway, claims that dems don't respect the flag are baseless and almost always based on unsubstantiated hearsay.
One thing about this proposed legislation that bothers me is the question of what constitutes desecration. If I fly a flag from my car antenna and it gets muddy and ragged, does that count as desecration? Strikes me that this could turn out to be a two edged sword. Anyone who inadvertantly "desecrates the flag" could be open to a federal charge, even if the so called desecration is obviously accidental or unintentional. I think, in this case, congressional inaction is the correct response.
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