[Strategerist]

It's just moronic.

1) There's no flag desecration problem in this country I can see. In case you don't know, this will do nothing to stop it in Pakistan or Iran.

2) It's going to cause more flag descration here than you could possibly imagine - as well as contributing to clogging up the legal system with people that have burned 49 star or 12 stripe flags, etc.

[cripplecreek]

The way I see it burning our flag just makes it easier to spot the idiots.

[thomaswest]

Re 6: Ah, but you are ignoring the flood of flag burnings inundating the fire of national pride. Why, there were a whole 3 such incidents in the U.S.A. in 2004 and it rose to 4 in 2005. If we imagine one event per state, this means that 46 states were left out of flag burnings in 2005 alone.

You can easily see that at this rate, there will soon be a flag burning on every patio and street corner from coast to coast.

China produces 90% of the American flags sold here, so the defeat of the amendment by the "strict constructionist" faction forces me to divest my stock in Chinese flag-manufacturing firms. A pity.

[BigSkyFreeper]

There's no flag desecration problem in this country I can see.

Probably because the secular liberal media don't want you to see that it actually happens from time to time in this country.