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While I would never have the urge to burn the American flag, I have always felt that the right to symbolic speech does include and should lead with this country's flag burning. Kind of sounds hypocritical that this country's first amendment is a symbol of free speech, and then we throw up restrictions just for our symbols...
If congress wants to ban all flag burning, then maybe I'd be on board, but what if some foreign citizens hold a high degree of respect for another country's flag and see it burning on American soil, they would be criminalized for expressing their feelings and frustration on this country's flag.
It's a slippery slope and I don't see this Amendment ever passing the senate, no matter how conservative the media thinks they are.
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