Whats your position on flag burning?

Whats your position on flag burning

 

Well I am not an american, but I would be pissed off if I see my country's flag getting burned.

 

Can't I pick none of the above? I don't think it's a particularly effective means of protest - it's kindof a lazy way to say ooh, look how rebellious I am - but I hardly think it's un-American either. Free speech and all that. I don't really care. If there was an option for "whatever," I'd pick that.

 

If that will get angry police or other mother.... that is cool enough. I funk the flag. Flag is a militarry, gun industry and violence. I would like to have toiled paper with flags of USA, Poland, China and many many more...
But would like to exclude Tybet...
I even would resign from using a water and come back to paper for a while.

 

Wow, that post didn't make any sense at all.

 

Although he rambles, he makes sense. Let's abolish all flags and all government.

 

It is not illegal to burn a flag.

Attempts have been made to make it illegal, so far to no avail.

Those who think flag burning is wrong, better re-write the U.S. Constitution.

 

I thought the Patriot Act was making it a crime.

I think it is a good method of protest. It's non-violent.

 

I think it's a legitimate method of protest. It should be allowed as a form of free speech. People seem to get irrationally upset about it, though. These people need to get over themselves.

 

Well I don't know why would protesters burn their own country's flag, it represents their country as a whole not just their government

 

I think we should be proud of the fact that our Constitution protects even this form of speech.

To me, it is not merely an act of protest or defiance. Since the Constitution protects it, flag burning is in fact, upholding the Constitution.

Personally, I'm not into flag-burning and stuff.
I can think of even more convenient uses for pieces of cloth...

 

Not many people are as much rational as you are. Many likes to show their anger doing mess around. I can understand them. I'm also very impulsive.

 

:agree: :applause:

 

I agree with Molly. It's just not an effective form of protest.

It's pretty damn immature.

I'm not in favour of burning anything.

Yet, should it be legal? Fuck yes!

Yet there are a million better ways of protesting something.

 

buts its so anti-authoritarian man therefore cool.
I like burning flags when I am wearing my converse all-stars while listening to the sex-pistols.

 

Technically, one is supposed to burn flags when they are ripped or otherwise damaged- it's more disrespectful to throw the damaged flag away. That is one reason why flag burning should never be banned or the Flag Code would need an update.

US Flag Code. TITLE 4 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 8(k). It states:

"The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning"
http://www.usa-flag-site.org/faq/disposal.shtml

I don't care one way or the other on the burning of flags for protest. I think it is funny that so much emphasis is put on the destruction of an American symbol. The symbol has a greater value than the principles that the Founding Fathers used to justify the basis of this country, such as freedom, individuality, and separation of church and state. Personally, I think they would support flag burning if they suddenly appeared in our time. They would be shocked to see how far this country has strayed from their original vision. But that's neither here nor there, so in conclusion...

I am neutral.

Peace and love

 

While I personally don't believe it(whatever you think the flag represents, too many good people have died in the name of freedom for it), but if you wanna burn a flag that's your own business.

 

The symbol of America for the longest time was a sexualized Indian woman.

Europeans used to see America as an exotic place, wooded, far away, etc. And an Indian girl, usually with her breasts bared, stood in for America in political cartoons and the like. And it's interesting how the image changed from a vulnerable, sexualized feminine symbol to the masculine, militant Uncle Sam symbol.

 

Ok lts play assosiations:
America:
overfeeded capitalizm - everyone gets there too much for youself not sharing with other - that's what I remember growing in Poland, we had there socialism (not comunism); now we have the same

 

It doesn't matter.

Why was it changed from a vulnerable, sexualized feminine symbol to the masculine, militant Uncle Sam symbol?