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To: KLP who wrote (114245)	5/17/2005 5:22:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 794298

< the folks who do that certainly speak for themselves. And maybe won't be able to get the job they want to have...or other forms of sanction.... Flag burners are not looked on favorably.> Social sanction is much better than government edict. Leave it to the people to decide who to reward, associate with, buy from etc. Social sanction is much more powerful than government edict. Look at the war on drugs for example. When drugs were legal, almost nobody used them [even tobacco only became popular early in the 20th century among men]. There was social sanction against drugs. One was not considered cool, one was considered dopey to use dope. Burning a USA flag would not be a good idea for one's brand image in the USA. Here, Tama Iti, a Maori guy, is on trial for brandishing as shotgun at a Waitangi Tribunal visit, which he used to shoot a NZ flag. Nobody seems worried about the flag, but about the brandishing of the gun. He's like a living work of art. I think people quite like him, sort of. He seems a reasonable bloke. Shooting the flag is a valid expression in my book, though I don't like people taking guns to public meetings. Similarly, if some Sioux shot a USA flag as a demonstration of what they think of their defeat, land confiscation and relegation to a reserve. Mqurice