[DB]

This conservative does not support a flag burning amendment.

I think burning my own flag is freedom of speech. I think burning someone else's flag is arson.

We honor our flag because of what it stands for, not by force of law.

[goldstategop]

The point is the Supreme Court struck down state laws that protected the flag. It gave states no choice in the matter. And as with Roe its turned less into a question of what the law should say about the flag than about values.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[libertylover]

I think burning my own flag is freedom of speech.

I disagree with you here. The flag is a symbol of our country and to burn the flag is to symbolically say, "We should burn this place to the ground and start over because it's not worth saving."

I think it's the equivalent of inciting a riot or yelling "Fire!" in a theater that is not burning.

[StonyBurk]

Desecration of Our flag was not protected as speech until a
corrupted and divided Court sided with a disaffected
Communist who led his pack of animals and petty vandals
in chanting The Red The white The blue we spit on you"
as they burned a stolen American flag at a Republican
convention in Texas.Texas Law ,then said it was a criminal
act. The State upeheld the Law the oligarchy of despots
said such an odious act was somehow protected speech.
A vitale concern at this time-It should have been so for
the past 17 years.

[ops33]

I agree with you. Freedom of speech means nothing if I cannot go out and say something that you do not like.

[Diggler]

The very fact that we have the right to burn the flag is what makes our flag so important in the first place.

Freedom of speech and the ability to speak out against our government is a rarity in this world.

That being said, I'd kick a flag-burner's ass.