If Flag burning is considered freedom of speech, then how come I cannot walk around in public naked?
I find flag burning a deliberate attempt to incite the public. If I cursed someone out or used so called “hate speech” I could be arrested. However, someone does this, knowing that it is pisses off 95% of the population and it is consider “Free Speech.” Also, I find such actions a direct threat against the government itself.
That’s a bad example. Flag burning would certainly be protected “speech” in a case involving the flag, not the burning. In other words, a law that criminalizes the burning of the U.S. flag but doesn’t criminalize burning of a banner for the opponent of my favorite soccer team is absolutely unconstitutional by any objective measure.
No, you couldn't. Hate speech is free speech. R.A.V. v. St. Paul (1992).
Colin Kaepernick is inciting the public by refusing to stand for the national anthem.
Maybe we should make it illegal to sit or kneel while the national anthem is being played. While we're at it, we might as well make it law that you must put your hand over your heart during the playing of the anthem, or any time a government vehicle passes by displaying the flag. And absolutely no crossing your fingers while you do it.