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Originally posted by valkyrie
If the amendment passes, I could still frolic around town in an American flag diaper, right? I mean, I probably will if the Amendment passes, just to let everyone know what a high level of complete ridiculousness such a thing would represent.
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Seriously. If it passes, does that mean that I can't wear a shirt/hat/uniform with the flag on it, since you're not supposed to wear the flag? (You're really not supposed to anyway, no matter what Old Navy prints every summer.) I probably wouldn't even be able to light a firework with a "Made in U.S.A." and a flag on it.
I wouldn't burn the flag in protest, but it's not my place to stop someone else from exercising that right. And thanks to the 1st Amendment, it's not the government's, either.
EDIT: CALLING GC LEGAL EAGLES
The US Flag Code is public law, as of 12/22/1942. According to Section 10:
Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation.
Note that this is Section 10 in its entirety. The President is the only one given authority to change the Flag Code. Therefore, why is Congress bothering/how are they getting away with it?
My source is
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html#5