It's the idiot authoritarians who don't seem to understand the meaning of the First and Fourth Amendments, for starters, and seem to want to "rise to the defense" of Tyranny.
Actual Freedom carries inherent challenges, and demagogues always seem to be looking for tidy little shortcuts.
Burning the flag is abhorrent, but it's also Free Speech...
Actually, it's not. There's no speech involved in burning something. Neither is sitting in a puddle of drool on the floor, stoned out of your mind a form of "free speech".
Does that so called free speech include destroying the Marine Memorial of the flag raising at Iwo Jima. Does that so called free speech include disrupting the changing of the guard at Arlington? Does that so called free speech include blowing up the Washington , or Lincoln, or Jefferson Memorials ? Where does the “free speech” of burning our flag, symbol of our nation, stop?