A couple of questions re: the flag-burning amendment

[Mythsaje]

:evilgrin:

A burning question
What if 1000 people stood down the street from the capitol building and burned 1000 flag posters made out of paper?

What if a performance artist smashed a TV with a flag on the screen?

What if we created little burning-flag animated signatures?

What if we created a book filled with photos of the flag and burned THAT?

What if we sold flag toilet paper? To France?

[The Deacon]

1. What If...

...a President defaced a small paper American flag by autographing it? Oh, wait, Junior did that & nothing happened to him...

[Virginia Dare]

2. Or what if they made a hideous dress out of it?..

http://photos.blogexplosion.com/pic.php?u=500JCzb&i=452

[sinkingfeeling]

3. And what if I sew up a 'flag' using prints instead of plain fabric, can

I burn it?

The whole problem is that the flag is a symbol. If I make a symbol of the symbol, is it a flag? That is the claim of those who drape a version of 'Old Glory' over their clothing...it's not really the flag. So, who's going to tell me what is and what isn't the flag?

[TlalocW]

4. What if a bunch of sanctimonious assholes

Needing to distract us from real problems decided to desecrate the flag by wrapping themselves in it?

Oh, wait... We were talking hypotheticals.

TlalocW

[Philosoraptor]

6. And what if they did it every damned year like clockwork?

[OneBlueSky]

5. flag burning is a thought crime . . .

since the preferred way of disposing of worn American flags is to have your local American Legion or VFW post burn them, the "crime" must consist solely of what one is thinking when the burning is done . . .

student burning a flag to protest the administration = crime . . .

American Legion commander burning a flag to retire it = no crime . . .

makes no sense whatsoever . . .