Will the Senate be able to protect the Flag?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

If you mean pass a flag burning amendment, no, they won't. It's an election-year stunt designed to stir up the conservative base of the electorally-endangered Republican party. The last time the Senate had a floor vote on flag desecration, it was also an election year (March 29, 2000.) Since 1994, social engineering bills like this tend to come up in election years. Go fig.

Truthfully, I think they want the flag burning amendment to lose so they can argue that they need an even bigger majority if they are to pass this poorly-designed attack on freedom of speech (the GOP has profited greatly from fear-mongering: "those scary Democrats will ruin the nation!" Yeah, right, like the one-party government we have right now is doing a bang-up job.) But should they get a veto-proof majority, I seriously doubt a flag burning amendment would be high on their "to-do" list. Since 1994, social engineering always takes a back seat right after elections to tax cuts for the wealthy and rollbacks of popular consumer protections.

Answer 3

The last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism, and the scoundrels infesting the capital, who strip away our liberties on a daily basis, along with the gutless sycophants in Congress who back them, are now being increasingly called to account by an American public finally grown weary of the lies.

What to do? Dredge up that moldering corpse--the flag protection amendment.

The joke is that the flag is desecrated daily for commercial purposes, waving proudly in front of the corporate headquarters of war profiteers like Haliburton, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Bechtel, GE, Westinghouse and Exxon Mobil, and the homes of tax cheats like disgraced Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski. It decorates all manner of commercial products from the backsides of women’s shorts to a line of patriotic condoms to toilet paper (so, you can't burn it but you can wipe your butt with it?).

None of this abuse of the national symbol bothers the right-wing charlatans in Washington. Only burning the thing.

The proper way to dispose of old, worn-out US flags, including those little things handed out as party favors or displayed from car windows, is burning--something Boy Scout troops often do as a public service. In other words, burning the flag itself is not a crime. It's what the person who burns one is "thinking" at the time of the act. So what Congress is attempting to do with the Flag Amendment, is to make thinking certain things a crime, punishable by prison.

What a pathetic joke it will be for future schoolchildren, reading the high-minded and carefully crafted words of the Constitution, with its careful detailing of the branches of government, the delineation of powers, the enumeration of the rights of the citizenry and the banning of slavery, when they come to this cheap amendment telling them that the beautiful First Amendment guaranteeing free speech which they read earlier is not really true: If they want to protest government actions by burning a piece of red, white and blue cloth, they can be locked up.

If you are really interested in protecting the flag, protect it from this guy:
http://www.of2minds.org/wakeup/images/bushsignsflag.jpg
TITLE 4- CHAPTER 1- Sec. 8. of the US Code:
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

Answer 4

Protect it from whom? Since the 1989 decision fewer than a dozen cases have been document in the U.S. of flag desecration. So you want to change the Constitution for something that happens on average less than once a year?

That's Constitution Desecration.

Answer 5

I would not support any changes to what is already on the books in relation to flagburning.I see no reason to ever burn the American flag,even if some of the people our troops protect do act like screaming yahoos.

Answer 6

"In Texas v. Johnson, which ruled that flag burning was protected speech, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia joined the majority without qualification."

Hmm. And Scalia is a Republican conservative who hunts with Dick Cheney....

Answer 7

I did not see the flag on tv say that it was in trouble

Answer 8

Of course not. But they can get republican voters in some of the highly contended races to come out and vote.

Answer 9

Let them burn it. If enough do, I'm sure some knuckleheads will do something stupid like melt the skin off their hands or better yet, burn their own houses down. That'll learn 'em!

Answer 10

I wish they'd protect us from more important things like terrorists and crazy presidents who think they're czars.

Answer 11

They"d better do it or they're outta here.