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To: Machaon who wrote (505538)	12/7/2003 8:30:21 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The right to burn the flag as a form of protest must always be allowed in a free country. As distasteful as it might seem to many, it is far more distasteful to violate the first amendment. The American Legion and Boy Scouts burn thousands of flags every year in respectful retirement ceremonies. The difference between these burnings and the protester burnings are the thoughts of the persons doing the burning. Are you advocating thought control? Certainly not I would hope. Therefore if a people are truly free, they should be allowed to express their views, and flag burning, as free speech is protected under the Constitution. Orca

To: Machaon who wrote (505538)	12/7/2003 8:38:54 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Respond to of 769670

<<No one should have the right to burn or desecrate the American Flag in protest>> I couldn't agree less. I liken it to the right to denigrate the President. Bob Barr called the President of the United States a "scumbag." He wasn't executed, didn't go to jail, wasn't removed from office, nothing. That's one of the great things about this country you can denigrate and protest its very institutions: the flag, the President. It's one of the reasons we've been such a long-lived and successful republic. Steve Dietrich