The Flag Should Not Infringe on the First Amendment

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The Flag Should Not Infringe on the First Amendment

August 22 2005
Counterbias.com
Gene C. Gerard


When the Senate returns from its summer break next month it will consider a constitutional amendment to ban desecrating the flag. In June the House of Representatives, in a vote of 286 to 130, passed a resolution that would create a new amendment to the Constitution allowing, “The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.” This is the sixth time since 1990 that the House has approved a flag desecration amendment to the Constitution, only to have the Senate reject it or simply fail to vote on it.

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1. Such an unbelievable waste of frigging time.

It qualifies as desecration of (sort of) federal property and has absolutely nothing to do with speech and might just be really good magic over time. Who the heck knows? The fact that our representatives waste their efforts on flag burning and steroid use is akin to fiddling while Rome is burning.

Election reform, an exit strategy from Iraq, sound environmental policies, alternative energy sources, a crumbling infrastructure, and health care should be their primary concerns.

Guess what, they're not. Who do they think they're working for anyway? Certainly not us, the people.