[CyberCowboy777]

We are not debating whether the 1st amendment should be defended. I never even remotely suggested that.

I question whether one action claiming protection under that defended right should garner so much attention.

I also question any American who would waste their time defending flag burners when no threat exist to the 1st Amendment. Why would a man claim to love America and yet spend time not on the 2nd Amendment which is really threatened but on the 1st Amendment which is not threaten at all?

I am also not convinced that burning a U.S. flag is not unlike yelling 'fire' in a theater or threatening the POTUS with action - not words.

[KantianBurke]

looks like we're going to have to agree to disagree then. FWIW, you won't find a better defender of the 2nd Amendment than myself. Godd day.

[Protagoras]

"There is all the difference in the world between defending the right to desecrate the flag and defending flag desecration itself. It is the the difference between a free society and an unfree society."

Roger Pilon
Director of constitutional studies for the Cato Institute In testimony to a congressional committee May 23, 1999