If the flag desecration amendment passes

Will the people who display the upside down flag in their sig lines be arrested?

Would Bono have been pulled into court for displaying the American flag jacket lining at the Super Bowl?

Will anybody be able to wear any apparel that uses an American flag motif at all?

Does the amendment target burning the flag in anger or any form of expression having to do with the flag?

I will burn a flag in protest. I never wanted to burn a flag until people wanted to make it illegal. A flag burning law puts us in the same category as such esteemed nations as Iran, Saudi Arabia, the old Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

we have to burn the Constitution.

Remember that picture of him showing the lining of his coat at a Nascar race, or some funcion?

on edit: I really dislike seeing clothing that looks like the flag.
My last sighting was a woman wearing a scarf around her neck that literally looked like a flag.

signing his name on a mini American flag. I found that quite repulsive.
Is the amendment against burning only, or defined forms of desecration?

http://www.usflag.org/flag.etiquette.html

An exerpt:
The flag should never have placed on it, or attached to it, any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind.

So yes, Shrubbie was defiling the flag by autographing it.
Let's get him!!

The wording is something like 'it shall be a crime to desecrate the flag of the US'. Very general.

Smirk writing on the flag should definitely qualify as desecration.

Burning, however, is the only canonical way to destroy a flag, so apart from doing something like throwing on a rubbish fire, simple burning should remain perfectly legal.

The ones flying the grey, tattered remnants of flags and who eventually toss them in the trash rather than respectfully burned them like they are supposed to.

is ugly and in poor taste. But it shouldn't be outlawed. We just ought to try to get people to dress better.

And if a flag burning amendment passes, we could have enormous fun getting after the people who dispose of flags (respectfully) by burning them. Unless the flag amendment a-holes are sharp enough to make sure that kind of burning is exempt.

Dumb, dumb idea, the flag-burning amendment.

My mother sometimes sends me a red, white and blue top for the Fourth of July. It always winds up at the back of my closet or in a charity bag.

However, I recall back during the good old days of Vietnam war protests that some people got arrested for wearing clothing with flag motifs.

My concern is, once you start down the slippery slope, where do you wind up?

Prosecutions.

We are already accustomed to the grotesquely Soviet double-standard here in Imperial Amerika, best exemplfied by Pigboy Oxycontinboy who will NEVER go to trial, and even if he does (which I am 99% sure he won't), he will get "time served" and credit for his stay at the Hippie Rehab Hilton down there in Florida (perhaps that will have to be punishment enough for Pigboy, having to agree with all those liberals he hates in order to "get off").

Why should Flag Burning be any different than the rest of what Imperial Amerika is becoming and has become, an enclave of special privilege, aristicracy, terrible inequality and Soviet-style (if not yet level) injustice.

Flag Burning Law will only be used to prosecute "the right people"...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

The law should first prohibit the flags use in advertizing. But, no chance of ever seeing that. What would Fox News use as a backround? Maybe a flapping image of Bush.

my neighbor does not take down his flag when it is raining. Can I report him? :P

lots of ratty tattered USA "car flags" around here too.

what if someone tears up a drawing of the flag ? what if you make the flag yourself at home and then burn it ? what if you tear up the flag ?

18 USC Sec. 700
1989 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-131, Sec. 2(a), amended subsec.
Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows:
''Whoever knowingly casts contempt upon any flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning, or trampling upon it shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.''
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-131, Sec. 2(b), amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: ''The term 'flag of the United States' as used in this section, shall include any flag, standard colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, color, or ensign of the United States of America, or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, standards, colors, or ensign of the United States of America."

If an amendment passes, this becomes federal law again.

This Simpsons parody of the classic School House Rock song "I'm Just a Bill" dates back to Bush 41's effort to make flag burning a punishable offense.

go here to hear the MP3. http://www.esquilax.com/flag/amendmnt.mp3

with a few red stripes and blue outlined stars painted on it and some people thought she desecrated the US flag. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.

"Instead I warm my hands upon the flames of the flag
As I recall our downfall
And the business that burned us all
See through the news and the views that twist reality

Enough
I call the bluff
Fuck Manifest destiny

Landlords and power whores
On my people they took turns
Dispute the suits I ignite
And then watch 'em burn"
-Rage Against the Machine, "Bombtrack"

Make a real official looking citation and start sticking it on doorways that leave their flag out all the time or have a tattered and faded flag hanging from their front porch. Also good to get cars in the parking lot who are flying threadbare, faded, and tattered flags.