Nov Election, Candidates Aside...

[mkemse]

Flag burning strikes me as an American issue. I've never heard of anyone going to jail or even being fined, in the last forty years, for burning an Irish, Swedish, German or Italian flag - provided it was their own flag! People around might get irritated or angry or say "that was immature", but nowadays it's not seen as a sacrilege against the nation per se, no matter what the point of it was, and a step past the limits of civilized free expression. Legally it's a non-issue.

It's a political act, not a means of voting yourself out into the wilderness and asking to be taken to jail. This ultra-dramatic view of flag burning is something you stick to in America, a reflection of the prairie frontier mentality maybe?

I beleive the United State Supreme Court, be they right or not rules a few years back, the as tasteless ect as it is burning an American Flag anywhere including in the United States is protected by Freedom of Speach and Exprtession, so in the United States it is legal,
this does not represent oneway or another my personal feelings on the subject

[Ragoczy]

I beleive the United State Supreme Court, be they right or not rules a few years back, the as tasteless ect as it is burning an American Flag anywhere including in the United States is protected by Freedom of Speach and Exprtession, so in the United States it is legal,
this does not represent oneway or another my personal feelings on the subject

Flag burning is protected speech. The only "arrests" have been because the idiots were setting fires in public places without a permit or any safety precautions. "Freedom of speech" doesn't mean you can set a fire inside a public building -- some putz once tried to burn the flag that belonged to a library in the library (I think it was in Columbus).