Where does it stop.  They are talking about passing a constitutional amendment to ban burning the flag.  What's next?  Will we need a amendment to ban burning a photograph of the flag? If flag burning is "evil" "vile" and "immoral" certainly burning a photograph is at least as bad.

Is it possible that the nation's founders failed to include flagburning in the Constitution because such an act would have been unthinkable.

We proudly fly the American flag in front of our home seven days a week.   I consider it to be the ultimate symbol of freedom (and the rights protected by our consititution) the flag in America is the one clear, unmistakable symbol of our nation.

It is a nation where freedom of expression, particularly polictical expression, is our greatest freedom.  Burning (or otherwise defacing) the American flag is clearly political expression.

I have seen our flag burned, defaced, even torn to shreds.  And I am always struck by how powerful that symbol truly is--such an act against any other flag in any other country would result in fines or imprisonment at best--torture an death at worst.

But in America, our flag is so great and that it does not need such "protection".  Indeed, it has always rejected it, knowing the real power that true freedom holds.

Freedom isn't free!  Being ticked off by some nutty protester is a small price to pay for living in a free society.