Word: flags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should a law protecting the flag also protect homemade facsimiles of the flag? Is a crayon drawing of the flag a flag...
Besides burning, what would constitute the "physical" desecration some of our political leaders emphasize they hope to outlaw? Does that include obscenely wagging a finger at a flag? Sticking out one's tongue at the flag? Thumbing a nose at the flag? What if some miscreant mooned the flag? Or stuck pins in the flag -- in public...
...present, burning the President in effigy is lawful. Should it be unlawful to burn an effigy of the flag? Is the flag more important than the President...
Indeed, is the flag more important than any other American symbol? Or should the statute or amendment be expanded to protect all significant national symbols? What if protesters burned a model of the White House? Should that be a crime...
...flag burning is outlawed, should it still be all right to burn the U.S. Constitution? Or the Declaration of Independence? Or (gasp!) the Congressional Record...