Excuse me, but I think you're missing a critical point, here. The objection is not to a mere attack on the flag. The objection is to people who say one cannot display that flag.
There is a double standard, here. A gentleman is fired because he has a confederate bumper sticker on his truck. He broke no laws.
Yet, in LA, some liberal street trash can destroy a flag (which flag was erected as a monument to 9/11), in full view of castrated cops, and she simply exercising her freedom of speech.
Where's the equity in that?
You keep saying the attack is on the flag. You're wrong. The attack is on john reb's right to display the flag. And if susie-dope-head-kalifornia-trash can destroy the flag in LA, then certainly john reb can have his bumper sticker.