[JustAnAmerican]

"Here they go, expecting us to waste vast amounts of political capital on a quixotic crusade to crush the relatively rare dissent. If one passed, I'd never fly one again like I do now, and I'd be tempted to burn a flag out of spite for the new law."

I personally would never, ever be tempted to burn the American flag, there is no greater disrespect to this nation and the people who fought and died for the freedoms you enjoy now, then to Desecrate the Flag, by any means. While I am sure it means very little to you, you (sir/Madam) just lost any respect I could ever feel for you.

God Bless America

[Wyatt's Torch]

"While I may vehemently disagree with what you have to say, I will defend to the death your right to say it."

- Voltaire

[William Tell]

JustAnAmerican said: "I personally would never, ever be tempted to burn the American flag, there is no greater disrespect to this nation and the people who fought and died for the freedoms you enjoy now, then to Desecrate the Flag, by any means. While I am sure it means very little to you, you (sir/Madam) just lost any respect I could ever feel for you."

I was taught that burning a flag was the proper way to dispose of it. Will next week's amendment be a prohibition against dissolving a flag in acid? And following that, a prohibition against bleaching the cloth and unraveling the threads? And following that, a prohibition against ...

My allegiance is to the Constitution and to the FreeRepublic for which it is law. Not to a flag.

[golfGodd]

Well said. Anybody who thinks intelligent dissent is expressed by destroying our country's flag is scum, IMO.

[NC_Libertarian]

Freedom is more important then the flag. When the flag no longer represents a free country, then it is just so much cloth. Our heroes fight and bleed and die for freedom, not cloth.